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Taverner

(55,476 posts) Mon Nov 19, 2012, 10:51 PM Nov 2012

Did Anonymous set up a firewall that prevented Rove from stealing the election? [View all]

Pretty straightforward

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	Yes
	19 (54%)
	No
	16 (46%)
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Did Anonymous set up a firewall that prevented Rove from stealing the election? [View all] Taverner Nov 2012 OP

This concept is like herpes demwing Nov 2012 #1

Goddamned, you're right! randome Nov 2012 #17

Here's the issue I have. Occulus Nov 2012 #46

Can't people realize PRESIDENT OBAMA WON. His voters voted. The other side lost. HONESTLY graham4anything Nov 2012 #2

"The rightwing would love an excuse." For what? That the right wing ie: tried to steal another teddy51 Nov 2012 #6

I agree. Obama won, we GOTV, and the other side HONESTLY lost. BarackTheVote Nov 2012 #19

Why couldn't realize that Bush won in 2000, his voters voted etc. etc. sabrina 1 Nov 2012 #22

I blame 2000 on Ralph Nader the traitor. NO Bush and Gore were not the same. But people believed it graham4anything Nov 2012 #25

No Nader would not have turned Florida for Gore thanks to a massive Democracyinkind Nov 2012 #55

Yes, thanks to all the efforts of people on the ground who STOPPED sabrina 1 Nov 2012 #29

One does not oppose the other, or negate it either nadinbrzezinski Nov 2012 #36

An excuse? AgingAmerican Nov 2012 #52

Of course we have no proof of this, but something certainly made Rove upset teddy51 Nov 2012 #3

Romney losing would have done it for Rove gravity Nov 2012 #7

Nope, I think he got out Roved by someone or Anonymous. They gave him a warning prior teddy51 Nov 2012 #10

He got out Roved by Obama, Plouffe and Axelrod gravity Nov 2012 #26

they were trying to win more house seats and did not want it called early. No need for a CT graham4anything Nov 2012 #12

That's a hell of a lot of money to spend on someone you want to lose. BarackTheVote Nov 2012 #20

The goal was to make Jeb look sane. Guess what, it has worked. graham4anything Nov 2012 #21

I love these conspiracy theories. I mean to say they spent billions sabrina 1 Nov 2012 #24

hackers should be in jail. end of story. graham4anything Nov 2012 #27

How is saying that someone prevented the election from being stolen dflprincess Nov 2012 #32

So you're saying that the white hats should have stepped down BarackTheVote Nov 2012 #33

Rove wasn't stealing the election. Rove was getting slapped down by others who valued their future graham4anything Nov 2012 #37

How would helping someone to win by any stretch of even the most creative sabrina 1 Nov 2012 #34

I love community activists that worked to secure MORE votes for a candidate graham4anything Nov 2012 #35

It Was The Moment The Bubble Hit Reality... KharmaTrain Nov 2012 #45

Did you actually see what happened that night? sabrina 1 Nov 2012 #49

Here is the article from the NY Times on what really happened w/Karl Rove election night graham4anything Nov 2012 #56

The zombies are gonna get us all!!!! longship Nov 2012 #4

Mine's already on fire! HappyMe Nov 2012 #5

That's an awesome animated gif... SidDithers Nov 2012 #8

I'll throw my 2 cents in... Taverner Nov 2012 #9

I don't care. xfundy Nov 2012 #11

Jefferson wrote all men are created equal, yet he owned and abused slaves. It never was the way it graham4anything Nov 2012 #13

Hey, if someone on the right like Rove thinks he and his consortium are the only one's teddy51 Nov 2012 #15

Option missing from the polls is: Maybe. n/t Tx4obama Nov 2012 #14

Thom Hartmann video regarding Anonymous & Rove, below Tx4obama Nov 2012 #16

No WilliamPitt Nov 2012 #18

You don't believe in cyber-crime? RobertEarl Nov 2012 #23

Stopping an attempt to hack the election is not a crime gravity Nov 2012 #31

I wouldn't think that at all. Zorra Nov 2012 #54

I think more than half of "Anonymous" is the FBI and Interpol. MADem Nov 2012 #28

Cool. Nice to think that it was the FBI that saved Ohio for us. nt Zorra Nov 2012 #42

I think that Ohio thing is fiction--but I don't mind if people wanna believe it. MADem Nov 2012 #57

While I can't *completely* rule it out, it seems far too unlikely for me to answer anything but "no" InsultComicDog Nov 2012 #30

I don't know Marrah_G Nov 2012 #38

Everything about this rests on an assumption. randome Nov 2012 #39

Third choice, feasible nadinbrzezinski Nov 2012 #40

+1 n/t TDale313 Nov 2012 #53

I lean toward thinking Anon did... 99Forever Nov 2012 #41

SDP Alert! - "Seriously Dumb Poll" hexola Nov 2012 #43

If we all wish really, really hard... randome Nov 2012 #44

No. Dash87 Nov 2012 #47

A long as there is no third option (i.e., maybe), I have to pass Jack Rabbit Nov 2012 #48

No. And anyone with a rudimentary understanding of networking knows it's bullshit... nt Comrade_McKenzie Nov 2012 #50

I have a CCNA and it's not apparent as bs... Taverner Nov 2012 #58

I don't know. I never say anything is real or unreal until I get good evidence or see it myself. Michigan Alum Nov 2012 #51