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bearsfootball516

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3. We all know that enough voters were influenced to swing the election

Reply to edhopper (Original post)

Sat Feb 17, 2018, 11:36 AM

Feb 2018

But if you're trying to be exact, like Mueller is, he can't say for sure that it swung the election, because we have no way of knowing how the exact number of votes swung by Russian influence.

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Trump won Michigan by 11,000 votes [View all] edhopper Feb 2018 OP

Not up to DOJ or FBI to determine that. Maybe social scientists can do some research, but it Fred Sanders Feb 2018 #1

I didn't mean the FBI edhopper Feb 2018 #6

And then there were the thousands of ballots in Detroit that "allegedly"... brush Feb 2018 #31

yes, "alleged" and "may have" and the like still dominate the media's choice of words NRaleighLiberal Feb 2018 #2

We all know that enough voters were influenced to swing the election bearsfootball516 Feb 2018 #3

Lanny Davis blames FBI Comey quartz007 Feb 2018 #29

Yeah, it's so people don't stop voting... Farmer-Rick Feb 2018 #4

Don't forget PA BumRushDaShow Feb 2018 #5

These stats make me want to PUKE Gabi Hayes Feb 2018 #16

Not only what I posted but BumRushDaShow Feb 2018 #18

That was the killer oberliner Feb 2018 #23

Most of the media still won't admit Gore won Fla. In 2000 Va Lefty Feb 2018 #7

Why does anyone assume that Jill Stein's votes shanny Feb 2018 #8

Why would any intelligent sane individual ever vote for Stein? yardwork Feb 2018 #10

Maybe that's a question that answers itself. shanny Feb 2018 #11

I think so. yardwork Feb 2018 #13

I guess she got the true blue ehrnst Mar 2018 #36

Why would any intelligent sane individual give Stein money .... MichMan Feb 2018 #27

Why do you think that is a valid argument in response to the OPs point? nt stevenleser Feb 2018 #12

hi steve! where ya been? shanny Feb 2018 #15

Same as always. Why? nt stevenleser Feb 2018 #19

tbg... SidDithers Feb 2018 #20

Thyroxine-binding globulin? shanny Feb 2018 #21

Odd question mcar Feb 2018 #25

Nobody belongs to anyone.. stein lied her gd head off Cha Feb 2018 #24

Someone got the talking points mcar Feb 2018 #26

They aren't saying the Russians didn't affect the election. They are saying there is no indication tblue37 Feb 2018 #9

I think edhopper Feb 2018 #14

You were absolutely spot on about the medias role in this Gabi Hayes Feb 2018 #17

Even with Wisconsin and Michigan, HRC still would've lost oberliner Feb 2018 #22

According to Lanny Davis, it was Comey quartz007 Feb 2018 #28

I think Comey was the "plausible deniability" and Russian hackers reassigning votes to McCamy Taylor Feb 2018 #33

Our election system is a disgrace quartz007 Feb 2018 #34

I live in Michigan helmedon1974 Feb 2018 #30

We don't even know she "got" the votes. Russian hackers may have re-assigned the votes McCamy Taylor Feb 2018 #32

We only know edhopper Feb 2018 #35