Taranto's Best of the Web for October 27 also has an interesting point about depressed Democrat turnout [emphasis mine]:
Despite a generally buoyant Democratic Party nationally," the New York Times reports, "there are worries among Democratic strategists in some states that blacks may not turn up at the polls in big enough numbers because of disillusionment over past shenanigans." What shenanigans would those be? The paper explains:"This notion that elections are stolen and that elections are rigged is so common in the public sphere that we're having to go out of our way to counter them this year," said Donna Brazile, a Democratic strategist. . . .Who exactly made the notion that elections are stolen or rigged "so common in the public sphere"? Wouldn't that be the Democrats, who never got over their grudge over Al Gore's photo-finish loss in 2000, who preposterously claimed Ohio was stolen in 2004, and who are already warning that if they don't do as well as they expect this year, it will be because of Republican dirty tricks?Democrats' worries are backed up by a Pew Research Center report that found that blacks were twice as likely now than they were in 2004 to say they had little or no confidence in the voting system, rising to 29 percent from 15 percent.
And more than three times as many blacks as whites--29 percent versus 8 percent--say they do not believe that their vote will be accurately tallied.
Voting experts say the disillusionment is the cumulative effect of election problems in 2000 and 2004, and a reaction to new identification and voter registration laws.
Given that many of the Dems' complaints are made in expressly racial terms--e.g., blacks were disfranchised in Florida, or a requirement to show ID to vote is racist--why should it be surprising that blacks are more "disillusioned" than whites?
Hmmm, "some states?" Maybe OH, PA, and MD, where we hvae black candidates running? Perhaps blacks don't want to tell their Dem "massas" that they are off the plantation.
ROTFLMAO! I've never before used this particular overused word, but this time I have to say
"This notion that elections are stolen and that elections are rigged is so common in the public sphere that we're having to go out of our way to counter them this year," said Donna Brazile, a Democratic strategist. .
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That's total BS, but think about it - by publicizing it, they are trying to motivate their base. Sure, if *you* were reminded of attempts to deny *your* right to vote you'd think "I'll show them! I'm going out to vote!"
So it makes sense that liberal NPR this morning had a news segment about liberal poll watchers trying to 'protect' voters from 'voter intimidation' (ie daring to make them show proof).
The MSM noise machine is trying to 'scare up' some voters, literally!