Voter Fraud in the Keystone State (Pennsylvania's new Voter ID law)

National Review ^ | 8-17-2012 | John Fund - Commentary

[smoothsailing]

PA ping.

[Tenacious 1]

Pennsylvania confounds me.

This president has launched a war on the Coal industry. I know there are large liberal bastians in an otherwise sparcely populated mountainous state. But you would think their would be more outrage against an administration that has so negatively impacted the largest industry of a state.

Maybe I am confused about how important the coal industry is to Pennsylvania. Someone correct me if so.

[Vigilanteman]

Republicans have long suspected that voter fraud regularly occurs in Philadelphia.

Gee, why do you suppose the crackers would come up with such a crazy idea?

[Vigilanteman]

Simple: Most of the coal industry in in the western two-thirds of our Commonwealth. Most of the libtard cesspools and fraud is in our eastern corners, especially Philadelphia and Scranton.

These metro areas are populated heavily with people who'd rather milk the government teat than allow others to mine coal.

[knarf]

I'm no expert, but I think coal has so technologically improved itself, the massive manpower it once demanded is not as needed, thus, the power of the union no longer holds sway in the minds and hearts of the people.

Around here (SW PA), the gas industry has usurped King Coal, so the battleground is drilling and fracking.

There's not too much noise anymore about evil drilling and fracking, so what will be PA's demise is apathy.

If PA nurtures a "They're all crooks, why bother" attitude, Philadelphia and Allegheny county will once again defacto paint Pa democrat, when in fact, PA is a conservative state.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Every college kid in this state knows how to get a fake Pennsylvania ID from some website in China. So what’s the problem?

[Vigilanteman]

See the county by county map:

McCain counties are blue, Obama counties are commie red. The only red counties in the west are dominated either by cities (Pittsburgh and Erie) or libtard university towns (Indiana and State College).

[smoothsailing]

[SECURE AMERICA]

That Obama leads Romney anywhere just staggers the imagination Hamburger. Yes HAMBURGER is well on its way to becoming a luxury food item. With record numbers of people on food stamps our tax dollars are paying for corn to prop up the ethanol industry(a non beneficial gas additive) while droughts are raising the price of corn as food.......... Obama is a joke. A Bad joke on the poor and the middle class. But yet he leads Romney.. People are sheep...........

[drbuzzard]

One has to understand the voting demographics of Pennsylvania. Much of the state is rural. There are basically 2 urban areas, that around Pittsburgh and that around Philadelphia. The rest of the state has a significant population and is referred to as the ‘T’.

However Philadelphia is massively corrupt and run by shameless leftists who cheat in elections in ways that would have made Stalinists blush. If you look at Philly election statistics, they have something like 95% turnout in which over 80% votes Democrat. There is nowhere else in the country which has anything near 95% turnout. I think in some years turnout has actually exceeded the voting age population.

Thus you have Philly as a complete washout every election. That’s pure Democrat votes.

The ‘T’ composed of small towns and cities traditionally votes GOP.

Thus elections generally come down to the Pittsburgh area. While Pittsburgh is also a fairly corrupt Democrat machine city, it’s is nowhere near as bad as Philly, so in theory the area can tip GOP and throw the election that way. This is what happened in 88. However Pittsburgh is also very Union, so it’s not an easy thing to do.

Really the GOP has a tough row to hoe in PA since there is so much cheating. Perhaps this voter ID law will take away the ridiculous Philly advantage. We’ll see.

[smoothsailing]

It was James Carville who famously said; " Pennsylvania is Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with Alabama in between."

[Lancey Howard]

The coal industry is extremely important to Pennsylvania, but remeber, the Democrat party “base” of urban bums, deadbeats, and parasites far outnumbers those people still left in the dying coal towns. For Democrat voters, it’s more about the “free stuff” confisctaed for from Republicans and handed over in exchange for their votes that matters more than anything else. ANYTHING else. And now that the Democrats have killed the coal industry thereby leaving even MORE people addicted to government welfare, it’s “win-win” for the Democrats.

Hope this helps.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Actually Indiana County is blue on that map.
The red county is Cambria County, where virtually everyone earns their living off some type of federal pork brought to the area by the late John Murtha.

[Vigilanteman]

Snakehead was essentially correct, although Scranton is even more corrupt than Pittsburgh and Erie would be in the running if it wasn't so small relative to P&P.

Scranton, of course, is the hometown of Casey, Jr. Erie earned infamy as the site of the poor delivery driver with the collar bomb in that failed extortion plot.

[BobinIL]

I was watching Hanity last night and he was talking about the Voter ID law in PA with some liberal pundit. The liberal guy kept saying that you shouldn’t have to show an ID to exercise your constitutionally guaranteed right to vote! I was yelling at the TV that I have to show multiple IDs when I buy a gun and endure a background check.

[Oberon]

The Post also asked those surveyed if they believed the supporters and opponents of voter-ID laws were acting out of genuine concern for fair elections, or that they were trying to gain some partisan advantage. Respondents were more likely to say that the opponents of these laws had political motivations than to say that proponents did.

Of course they do. The Left is afraid we'll make it harder to steal elections, and they're pitching a fit about it.

[Plumres]

There is some good news in Pittsburgh, a few months ago Biden was in a parade in downtown Pittsburgh and was LOUDLY booed! They show the clip on the local nightly news. I bet that NBC station got it trouble for it.

[Vigilanteman]

Thanks for the correction. Yes, Cambria County is home of Johnstown and is essentially a rural version of the Mon Valley: Idiots who think good-paying union jobs will eventually come back if they just keep pulling the “D” lever. But the margins are getting thinner each election.

[smoothsailing]

I saw that too. It’s a desperate argument on the part of the liberals. Folks just don’t see having to show a picture ID as a burden. We do it for so many things that it’s almost second nature.