Posted on 11/11/2012 5:22:22 PM PST by SeekAndFind
There were many factors that hurt Mitt Romney and favored Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential election. The Democrats portrayed Romney in the worst light possible; as a wealthy, out of touch millionaire who wanted to return women to the 1800's. The left wing media predictably did everything it could to perpetuate that false caricature. Obama's race was an advantage; voters of all persuasions, particularly minorities, still cannot get over the allure of the first black president. The 47% of Americans on welfare were predisposed to vote for the food stamp president over Romney, wanting the free goodies to keep on giving, despite the long-term unsustainability.
n spite of those odds, polls indicated that Romney was going to win the election. The economy is close to Great Depression era conditions, and unemployment is almost as high as when Obama entered office. Economic conditions became so dire after Obama took office it prompted the rise of an entire new movement, the Tea Party. Presidents rarely win reelection when the economy is in the tank.
So how did Romney lose a race that numerous reputable polls and pundits predicted would be an easy win, based on historical patterns? The most realistic explanation is voter fraud in a few swing states. According to the Columbus Dispatch, one out of every five registered voters in Ohio is ineligible to vote. In at least two counties in Ohio, the number of registered voters exceeded the number of eligible adults who are of voting age. In northwestern Ohio's Wood County, there are 109 registered voters for every 100 people eligible to vote. An additional 31 of Ohio's 88 counties have voter registration rates over 90%, which most voting experts regard as suspicious. Obama miraculously won 100% of the vote in 21 districts in Cleveland, and received over 99% of the vote where GOP inspectors were illegally removed.
The inflated numbers can't just reflect voters who have moved, because the average voting registration level nationwide is only 70%. The vast majority of voters over the 70% level are not voting because they want to, they are voting because someone is getting them to cast a vote, one way or another. Those 31 counties are most likely the largest counties in Ohio, representing a majority of Ohio voters. This means the number of votes cast above the 70% typical voter registration level easily tops 100,000, the margin Obama won Ohio by.
Videographer James O'Keefe, known for his undercover videos exposing left wing fraud, caught a Virginia Democratic Congressman's son on video in October explaining how to commit voter fraud. Patrick Moran, the son of Rep. Jim Moran, told O'Keefe's videographer that in order to make a vote for someone else, you'd need two pieces of identification, such as a utility bill, explaining, "they can fake a utility bill with ease, you know?" He went on to advise the videographer that he should also call the voter and pretend to be a polling company in order to make sure the voter isn't intending to vote. He said that Democrat attorneys would be located in the polling places to assist him if challenged casting one of these illegal votes.
In another video, O'Keefe's videographer tells a DNC staffer from Obama's Organizing for America that she intends to vote in both Texas and Florida. The staffer laughs and says, "It's cool." The staffer then prints out a voter registration form for the undercover videographer and advises her on what to do if she gets caught.
These are just the known instances of attempted voter fraud. How many instances occurred that were not discovered? Obama's Organizing for America looked up voters in swing states – many who would not have bothered voting otherwise – and got them to vote. How did they get them to vote? They may have given them rides to the polls, they may have offered to fill out and return their ballots for them, or they may have voted ballots for the ones who were not going to vote.
Many on the left believe there is nothing wrong with committing fraud in order to ensure Obama's reelection. It is a common tenet on the left that the ends justify the means. Saul Alinsky, the 1960's radical who inspired Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, taught community organizers like Obama that dishonesty is acceptable if it achieves your political goals. And when caught, Alinsky teaches radicals to deny the wrongdoing and change the topic to put their accusers on the defensive. One Obama supporter brazenly posted on Facebook that he was voting four times for Obama, asserting that the ends justify the means.
Aiding Obama's win was a devious suppression of the conservative vote. The conservative-leaning military vote has decreased drastically since 2010 due to the so-called Military Voter Protection Act that was enacted into law the year before. It has made it so difficult for overseas military personnel to obtain absentee ballots that in Virginia and Ohio there has been a 70% decrease in requests for ballots since 2008. In Virginia, almost 30,000 fewer overseas military voters requested ballots than in 2008. In Ohio, more than 20,000 fewer overseas military voters requested ballots. This is significant considering Obama won in both states by a little over 100,000 votes.
Voter fraud has been in the works for years. At least 52 employees of the left wing group ACORN have been convicted of voter registration fraud. ACORN itself was convicted of the crime of "compensation," paying its registration canvassers bonuses to exceed their quotas. In 2008, 36% of ACORN's voter registrations were invalidated. Left wing political pundit Chris Matthews admitted last year that pretending to call someone from a polling company, then voting their ballot for them, has been happening in big cities since the 1950's. He admitted he knows that kind of voter fraud takes place in Philadelphia.
Strong-arming people into voting who really have no desire to vote undermines our form of government. People do not choose to vote because they are uninformed about the issues and candidates, are lazy, cynical, or are content with the status quo. Voting someone else's ballot for them is cheating the system and essentially giving yourself two votes.
When people claim that Obama won because the economy was improving, or because Americans generally think he is doing a good job, it is not true. He won through dishonest methods and rhetoric. Many of the votes cast in the swing states were cajoled, some legally and perhaps even more illegally, into supporting him. If voter fraud becomes acceptable, then maybe Donald Trump is right: it's time for a revolution.
No kidding.
You would have to prove it was fraud. And even then, who would care?
In FL, the stats of 140% are for cards, not votes. 2 cards per person.
I say let them steal all they want. Eventually their
attempted overthrow will be so obvious that even the
chump media wont be able to hide it. Once I thought, Quite
a while back when Romney got nominated, that maybe it would
be cool to let Obama win and then impeach him soon after.
Once he’s out he’s home free but as long as he’s in office
he’s fair game. So actually the only chance we have is to
expose this criminal fraud for what he is and do it so big
that the looser media can’t ignore it. I mean all the way
to the perp walk. I want to see this jacka$$ do time.
Is Romney demanding any investigations, has he got any lawyers out? This is why he wouldn’t have made a good President.
BUMP
For the future the only thing we can do is
Close primaries
Strict voter ID in ALL states.
NO early ballots.
Make sure that all military gets to vote.
Make sure all voters are citizens of the USA.
Make it very obvious that getting an ID is NOT a hardship for anyone. That is here legally
PURGE the voter rolls.
In other words:
Just move on!
Nope!
Face it folks, it WAS VOTER FRAUD that got Obama back in.
EXECELLENT point!!!!
I was very lukewarm about Romney but I did vote for him. Once the primaries are over there are only two choices. I chose the better of the two.
Soap box and ballot box have failed; that leaves the bullet box. Arm-up, if you already haven’t.
Exit polls exist to determine voter fraud.
“What good is this going to do? Romney conceded.”
I think i saw here on FR he has until December to “un-concede”
Is this SoS project funded by soros the same as that special ops online petition ?
The election was a coup. American democracy is dead. Republican leaders are too gutless to even complain.
Obama won because his team hacked Orca and the Romney campaign is too embarrassed to say anything.
No it was the Secretary of State Project
to elect “progressive” Sec of St so that elections could be controlled.
Bingo! Concisely said!
We are now at the point where the people who don’t produce, but instead vote for a living are outnumbering the productive members of our society who actually work for a living.
For the most part, those who are the producer class work hard and play by the rules and don’t have a lot of spare time on their hands.
Those who vote for a living have plenty of time on their hands and are more than willing to not follow the rules to vote to keep the wheels on their fee ride. As many times as it takes, in fact.
What they do not seem to grasp is that we have turned the corner and we as a nation are simply out of other peoples money. Or they just don’t care.
Regardless, the free ride is probably not going to last until the next election
We are playing a game of musical chairs with 320 million very fatigued people circling about 200 million chairs and the music is just about to run out.
The rush to grab that last chair is going to be epic on the scale of 1 to ugly.
A lot of those who are going to be left standing have not clue one how to do anything other than swipe an EBT card and who have no hope of developing the job skills to survive in our modern economy and could not integrate into mainstream American society even if they wanted to, which they don’t.
Don’t know how it will end, but it’s pretty obvious that it will start sooner than later.
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