2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWhat if Rand poll is the only poll that is right? - Get ready for stolen election.
Don't you find it odd that Romney could be ahead of Obama? Romney is a man who has zero credibility to be president with anyone who knows anything about him.
Here's how the GOP could steal the election, and many of these things are already happening:
HOW TO STEAL AN ELECTION
1/ FIDDLED POLLS THAT PUT ROMNEY AHEAD
Obama is six or seven points ahead in the Rand poll. How can he be so far ahead in Rand, but so far behind in Rasmussen and Gallup. Suppose all the other polls are wrong - either they are in the pocket of Republicans, they are partisan and are happy to create partisan polls, they mostly just make up the numbers by copying what the other pollsters are doing, or they are plain incompetent.
2/ ROMNEY SPENDS MONEY IN UNWINNABLE SEATS
Notice how Romney spending continues to get a spending boost in unwinnable states, not just swing states, but all over - maybe this shows they know they are going to steal the election.
3/ ROMNEY CAMP KEEP TALKING ABOUT MOMENTUM
Romney camp continue to talk about their alleged momentum - this is just to give the illusion they are ahead when they are actually six or seven points behind. It doesn't matter if Romney and Ryan say different things to different audiences and keep repeating the same lies. It doesn't matter if they don't answer any more media questions if they already know they are going to win.
4/ REPUBLICAN BOUGHT POLLSTERS SHOW LATE SURGE
Now, suppose Republican bought pollsters show a Romney surge in last week and show him catching up in swing states.
5/ VOTE SUPPRESSION
Already Republicans have tried their hardest to suppress the vote, and even though those laws have been challenged, there is still a lot that has got through.
In Ohio, for example, a huge reduction in voter machines to make is harder for poorer folks to vote, voting hours reduced and no voting on the Sunday before the election day. Nearly half the votes were cast in extended voting hours in 2008. These things obviously have nothing to do with preventing election fraud. They have everything to do with helping the Republicans.
6/ VOTE FLIPPING GIVES ROMNEY A WIN IN POPULAR VOTE AND EC
Romney looks like he could be set to get a boost from vote flipping in a vote machine hack. For those of you who are not familiar with vote flipping, here is a DU thread link below about vote flipping. This is about a study of GOP candidate primaries in Wisconsin earlier this year, where it found a consistent correlation between the percentage of Mitt Romney's vote and the the size of the precincts. This can only be explained by vote rigging, and shows it was statewide, so must have been orchestrated centrally. Can you imagine Karl Rove thought any of those far right candidates had a chance to win the election?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1091576
7/ ROMNEY STEALS ELECTION AND IT IS UNPROVABLE
So it is all set for Romney to steal the election - with vote flipping, he would be is so far ahead in the popular vote that it would not be suspicious that he swept the swing states.
His win would be consistent with fiddled opinion polls, so nothing suspicious there. If there is an outcry of protest it will be about voter suppression allegations or employers bullying their workers into voting Romney - that is a red herring to the vote machine swindle that will be unprovable.
bkkyosemite
(5,792 posts)must count:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021636998
flamingdem
(40,980 posts)LeftInTX
(34,852 posts)Doesn't it poll the same people over and over?
I would think they are much more informed than "low information" voters
Binders Keepers
(369 posts)Nice to see Obama support skyrocketing after last debate.
UCmeNdc
(9,655 posts)Why not flip votes if you cannot be caught? No paper trail!
MjolnirTime
(1,800 posts)graham4anything
(11,464 posts)the theft machine was for the Bush family inc
they are not running in 2012
One will run in 2016
he can't win if Mitt/Glove win
he needs Mitt/Glove to be totally repudiated, along with the entire rightwing extreme group
to gallop in as a moderate next time
the public supporting Obama is not stupid
Obama is probably up by 7 or 9 now and not one Obama fan changed side.
so, NO there is no theft
btw, someone has to own a company, and most owners are republcans as they have more money
so that means they indeed own stuff
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)
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