[redfreedom]

Berg of ND ran a very poor campaign. His dem opponent, Heidi Heitkamp painted herself independent and as much of a conservative as Berg, even though she was funded by out of state anti oil and anti military interests and is a die hard socialist.

Berg had real stupid advertising. Many of his TV adds had the following statement: “I like Heidi, but - - - “ He basically endorsed her by saying she was likeable. I put this in the same category as that “let’s reach across the isle” bullshit mentality the typical RINO has where every time you reach across the isle to a commie you lose something!

Heitkamp ran fierce attack adds, one of which painted Berg as a rich mean landlord, and he did nothing to defend himself.

Simply put, Berg brought flowers to a gunfight.

[copaliscrossing]

Simply put, Berg brought flowers to a gunfight.

I hear ya'. The Republicans keep thinking that "taking the high road" and being "Mr Nice Guy" will win over voters and look where it has got us. Politics is a bloody sport. With that said, the REAL problem is public perception as filtered by the lamestream media. Once a Republican takes the gloves off and starts bloodying an opponent, the lamestream media comes to the democRAT's rescue and starts calling the Republican a dirty fighter or something like that. I have heard so many of my liberal friends say as much but you will never hear them say anything about the negativity of their own candidates. It really is a dilemma.

On the youtube video regarding the testimony of the programmer about the ability to commit vote fraud via these machines. I also am a computer programmer/systems analyst and his testimony was spot on. I think one thing that came at the end of the video that was particularly interesting was the possibility of manipulating the machines that tabulate and gather all the votes from the individual machines. If I were doing this, that is where I would target as it would take a lot less people and effort and scrutiny to do this at a higher level. We have been focusing on fraud and manipulation at the individual voting machine level whereas perhaps the better place to look is at the tabulating machines. If I am writing the "virus" to do this, it would be MUCH easier to control at the tabulation level than the individual machine level. It would take way too much coordination and effort to keep track of your desired result at the individual machine level.

One other thing I think he kind of left out was that a lot of software out there has a different source code file and "object" or "run-time" code file. So if you just look at the source code, you may not necessarily see what is actually running and doing the work on the machine.

Very scary indeed.