Romney would have won if it had all come down to Ohio - Harvey Wasserman

[Honeycombe8]

49. I think there's a real possibility that Ohio WAS rigged by the Republicans.

Hence, their shell shocked-ness, and Rove's disbelief. It seems to fit. They HAD done .... something. Romney knew it. Rove had assured the financial backers of it.

But things went very wrong. The problem was they hadn't rigged it enough. It was supposed to be close. Really close. So certain things were done, but not enough. Because it wasn't that close, after all, in Ohio.

The end result was that Obama won Ohio by less than 2 pts, when he'd been leading in Ohio by several points, up to 5. The Republican rigging only cut 1 or 2 pts down, which wasn't enough. Also, Romney lost Florida and VA, which they hadn't counted on.

It does seem to fit. Imagine it: They had a meeting in 2010, decided to gerrymander districts throughout the U.S. so that more Republicans would be elected. Done. Then they embarked on the next phase: to cut early voting hours, purge voting lists, change voter registration and showing ID procedures throughout the entire U.S. Then they embarked on something they had done before: the trashing ("losing&quot of Democratic registrations and the flipping of SOME votes.

They were caught committing voter registration fraud in NINE counties. And a guy was caught trashing Democratic voter applications in another state (Virginia? NC? I forget). The FL governor cut early voting hours so severely that people had to wait in line for hours, up to 7 or 8 hours, to simply vote.

Anyone who thinks these things aren't done, is naive. That also explains why Romney and Rove were so shocked. With all that, they still didn't win.

It's possible it wasn't rigged. But it's very possible that it was. Congress needs to address some of these issues, and do something about the voting machines, as well as the long lines to vote. Imagine the votes Obama would've had without all the "problems" in Florida and Ohio. Funny that it was THOSE states that had problems, don't you think? It's never a dark red state, like mine here in TX, where we breeze in and out to vote quicly.