Posted on 08/17/2012 8:26:58 AM PDT by smoothsailing
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I would be interested to see where you found this 95% turnout figure. I think you mean some wards and not the city as a whole.I am trying to research Philly elections and I though it was more in the 60’s.
I believe that in some wards the ‘10 off year turnout was 20% or less than’08 which in itself raises questions about inflated counts. That needs to be compared to presidential v off year turnouts across all voting districts in the state but I don’t have time right now.
In Philly, ward leaders and miscellaneous thugs would have entire voting machines put on dollies and removed from polling places, either to suppress, augment or otherwise tamper with the actual votes. They also had wads of WAM (walking around money) for every election to bribe street corner vagrants to go and vote Democrat.
This was from back in 2000 during the Gore vs. Bush election. I did the research back then, and no longer have the data sorry. I may be off by some percent, but trust me the turnout was flat out ridiculous. IIRC it was for the city proper, not the whole metro area.
You also have to show ID to use Medicare. That is every time you visit the MD or access Medicare paid for tests. They also make copies. We won’t even dare mention the casino perks that have you showing ID to get comps which I am sure the Philly Democrats complain about all the time.
I saw it too!
The drunk yinzer woman at the end is so typical of the Obama union zombies in the ‘burg. LOL!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLV8cjIESz4
Like Maryland, Pennsylvania is two states. You have the vast land granted to William Penn, full of gun- and Bible-clingers, coal miners and the like; then you have the extremely populous Pittsburgh and Philadelphia stapling down the two ends of the state. They are full of what cities are full of.
In Maryland, you have what Palin calls “real Americans”, and then you have the Baltimore-Washington corridor.
I should have pinged you, randita, I forgot you started a PA list. My apologies. :)
I'll top that, the last time I voted in Philly, Fairmount section, Bush vs Gore. 100 % turnout in my ward, 100 % for Gore. Not only is that so friggin unlikely under any condition, my neighbor had just died and myself, girlfriend and a few others did not vote for the Sore-Loserman ticket.
All Dems at the poll btw, and when I learned of the "great turnout" I called city hall, reps, etc., no one wanted to touch, I mean no one.
Yep, that was the election in which I actually looked at the numbers closely. The 2000 Gore vs. Bush election had utterly preposterous numbers come out of Philly. I mean it could have been enough B.S. to offset the claims that Gore won the popular vote.
Ok, just looked it up. The margin of popular vote was around 540k, which might be a bit much. Though I will state that I doubt Philly is the only place the Democrats cheat.
Nothing would surprise me in Philly. I had many great times, Philly was a great city to grow up and live in but no more.
Maybe I am confused about how important the coal industry is to Pennsylvania.
Someone correct me if so.
The creator of the poll referred to in the article was on a local radio talk show yesterday. He flatly stated that the results were weighted 56% Democrat and 38% Republican. He says that this is based on the 2008 voter turnout, but he also stated that the 2010 voter turnout was a majority Republican. Odufus was not on the ballot in 2010, so the fraud squads were not mobilized. See the vast difference?!? I wonder what the raw numbers were??
He "says" that he is "impartial", but when he is interviewed, he is a lib, and supports lib causes.
Hmmmm ..??? Today I saw a video of Romney in Coal-country, and there was a big sign saying, “Coal Miners for Romney”.
Looks like Obama has caused the miners to rethink their vote.
NEPA is still voting for JFK and Dan Flood but lately illegals have been moving in to replace the aging and dying JFK voters. I went to parochial school in Hazleton, aside from pictures of a few Saints and the current Pope, pictures of JFK hung in every classroom right next to the original George W.
“..Philly was a great city to grow up and live in but no more...”
Same here. Olney was a nice place for a while. WWII and Korea War vets coming home and raising kids, little factories and small businesses to work in, Sears on the Boulevard supplied work for teenagers...
It was a nice place, the only exception being Olney High School in the late 70s/80s - morons bussed in from the “oppressed” parts of the city, and racial troubles started, coupled with the drug dealers that followed them.
Ghetto now. Typical “Obamaville” and a perfect example of Dem control for generation after generation.
But... the actual amount of vote fraud is insignificant, isn’t it?
Maybe there is finally some hope for the area. JWF, here in Johnstown told the International Association of Machinists 194 to 38 to stick their union up their ass.
Dad was born - literally - in his house on Chandler St. in Fox Chase and graduated from Olney in the ‘40s. He was an avid hunter and hunted regularly in the fields and woods where Jeanes Hospital now stands. Back then, when people saw a 12-year-old walking down the street with a shotgun over his shoulder, they smiled and waved.
This can’t be true! I heard Ed Shcultz on MSNBC say last night there has never been any voter fraud in PA and I just know he wouldn’t lie! (Rolls eyes)
Fox Chase still is a nice section...beautiful out there.
My old man grew up in Fairmount, near the old Eastern PA State Penitentiary. Poplar street, one of 7. Big, raucous family, squabbling, fighting, loving, living...Depression-era kids with a Mom and Dad (he died young) who never had anything but love and hard work to offer them.
Dad came back from WWII married Mom, and they moved up to Olney in 1957 (don’t want to say where, TMI out here). Mom said it was a lovely little neighborhood when they moved there.
I finally got her out of there in 2006 (stubborn...it was a combination of the Irish and the Ukie in her), but she passed away shortly afterwards.
I can remember almost all of my neighbors - and they all knew me too.
It WAS a nice place to be a kid for a while. Miss the “neighborhood-ness” of it (for lack of a better word...)
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