“The Dems have been doing all that for a hundred years. There is nothing new about all that.
Look up Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall.”
I live in Chicago, I don’t need to “look up” anything about it, although of course I learned about that in grammar school, since I’m not a millennial.
As I said, I’m talking about them blatantly stealing a NATIONAL election, not simply rigging local city elections as they have been doing for 100 years. Also, the people doing it are not just doing it out of simple corruption, but to institute a communist regime, which is quite a bit different than your usual “machine politics”.
“Despite all that, Dems still regularly lose elections.”
Not once they have the machinery fully in place to rig elections they don’t. Haven’t had a Republican mayor in Chicago in 80 years, and I think it’s safe to say we still won’t have one in the next 80 years.
“For example we just had 5 straight Republican mayors in New York before the Dems finally won with DeBlasio.”
New York’s about the only “blue” city you can make that claim about. Sounds like the exception that proves the rule to me.
“Passing tougher laws and cracking down on corruption have often stopped/reduced ballot stealing, otherwise we’d have had Dem presidents nonstop for tye last 100 years.”
Again, I’m talking about NATIONAL elections, once the communists have felt confident in openly stealing them (and then proceeding to neutralizing courts, the military and other apparatus designed as safety valves). Show me one country in the world where they got to that point and then it was reversed by the legislature passing some “tough laws”. Just one, please.
Um, thanks to the electoral college, all national elections are local/state elections. The new laws being promulgated by Republican state congressmen will deal with Dem ballot fraud. That's what the laws are designed for.
The Dems carry out ballot fraud in New York City and New York State all the time and still lose regularly. Republicans won the New York City mayor elections 5 straight times. Gov Pataki beat Dem Gov Cuomo and won reelection another two times. He won 3 straight elections as governor.
What more ya got?
There are towns/cities/states that the Dems have t won for ages. Maybe, just maybe, those people there prefer Republicans? Same with Chicago and the Dems. Doubt if Republicans worry too much about Chicago at the national level.
Except New York City is at least 3 times the size of Chicago with a vastly bigger economy and over 3 times the population of Chicago and vastly more important in political and any other way.