[jellybean]

Usually, the way it works in places like Philadelphia, Detroit, Chicago, and Milwaukee is that the Dems wait for the rest of the state to come in and then figure out how many votes they need to win and manufacture them.

That happened in Dane County in 2004. I watched the county by county results on the internet election night. Dane County's numbers didn't change for hours...until Bush was ahead by a few thousand votes...then Dane County finished "counting" and Kerry pulled it out.

[kabar]

My grandfather was a ward healer for Frank Hague in Jersey City. The Dems have voter fraud down to a science. They also use political favors e.g., city jobs on paper with a salary, which you don't have to show up on the job.

Remember the reports that the NO police had disappeared after Katrina and many had gone to Las Vegas? The real story is that they were probably phantom employees who either never existed or were receiving money without having to work. In Jersey City, everyone in my neighborhood used to receive a free turkey on Thanksgiving from the local ward boss. I don't think he paid for it personally.

[Hermann the Cherusker]

That happened in Dane County in 2004. I watched the county by county results on the internet election night. Dane County's numbers didn't change for hours...until Bush was ahead by a few thousand votes...then Dane County finished "counting" and Kerry pulled it out.

Which is of course how Dane County was able to ensure the defeat of Republican Scott Klug in the close congressional election of 1990. Oh, wait. He won.

I don't think your theory holds water.