Obama and the Republican Machine's Voter Fraud Hoax

October 10, 2008 RSS Feed Print
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I read with interest Bonnie's post about Obama, ACORN, and allegations of voter fraud. While I don't claim expertise on ACORN specifically, I am always leery when I hear GOP claims of voter fraud because, as Josh Marshall has noted previously, they're mostly nonsense.

Marshall writes today: "The Republican party is grasping on to the ACORN story as a way to delegitimize what now looks like the probable outcome of the November election. It is also a way to stoke the paranoia of their base, lay the groundwork for legal challenges of close outcomes in various states and promote new legal restrictions on legitimate voting by lower income voters and minorities. The big picture is that these claims of 'voter fraud' are themselves a fraud, a tool to aid in suppressing Democratic voter turnout."

He goes into more detail—his entire post is worth a read.

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2008 Congressional elections,
Barack Obama,
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elections,
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Are you too idiots kidding me ? You can't be serious !!!! First off the bush campaign was a scam they had to keep counting the ballots , hmmmm, why do you think that was? David you say that Obama isn't fit to run this country , what and Bush was ? Look what are country has become and it's all because of the crooked Republicans, you guys are greedy your like a crack a head one is too many and a billion is Never enough !!!!!! Bush ran this country into the ground he had 8 years to fix this countries problems but instead he added more crap to it I'd say Bush was and is the one that's not fit to run this country... Since bush went into office we've been threaten by terroist the world trade center crumbled to the ground and your telling me that Bush and Bush administrators had no knowledge of what was to take place !!!!! That's BS !!!!! Politicians were always crooks nothing has changed what gets to me is you people seem to be blaming someone that wasn't even in office when all of this was taking place and you also call Obama a terroist, Get a Life !!!!! Get A CLUE !!!!!! Your just mad that we finally got someone with some balls and some integrity and he's black.... Most of you don't think a black person should run the country well guess what I'm all for it we need a change you whites had years to change and correct this country now your sh!t out of luck we have a BLACK PRESIDENT !!!!!!!! And he's done more in the months he's been in office than any of the others so don't judge him appreciate what he's trying to do and that's getting us back on track... By the way if you haven't figured it out by now I'm very much black !!!!!!!

Martine of FL 2:29AM October 25, 2009

I need the correct spelling of the name of the Republican strategist who stood before a church congregration and declared...in words, more or less to the effect:

"We don't want a large voter turnout. Elections have never been decided by the mmmm blah blah blah "

Thanks,

Thomas

mtd.dtm2@verizon.net

Thomas of CA 12:26AM October 28, 2008

Republicans should know a thing or two about vote fraud, since they won the White House in 2000 and 2004 by cheating at the polls...Bush was never President.

karen of OH 1:44PM October 19, 2008

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