Suppressing the "right wing" vote

[GeneCC]

I don't buy this crap for a moment.....

President Barack Obama is about to do what no president has done in the past 50 years: Have two horrible, terrible, awful midterm elections in a row.

In fact, Obama is likely to have the worst midterm numbers of any two-term president going back to Democrat Harry S. Truman.

Truman lost a total of 83 House seats during his two midterms (55 seats in 1946 and 28 seats in 1950), while Republican Dwight Eisenhower lost a combined 66 House seats in the 1954 and 1958 midterms.

Obama had one midterm where his party lost 63 House seats, and Democrats are expected to lose another 5 to possibly 12 House seats (or more), taking the sitting president’s total midterm House loses to the 68 seat to 75 seat range.

http://www3.blogs.rollcall.com/rothe...m-loss-record/



Don't assume that "everyone else" has this one covered. Get out early, take your one vote and make it count.

Rothenburg's Bio - "Rothenberg, currently a resident of Potomac, Maryland, lived in Waterville, Maine while attending Colby College before relocating to Connecticut to earn his Ph.D. at the University of Connecticut. For a time, he settled in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, to teach political science at Bucknell University, a subject he has also taught at the Catholic University of America.

In addition to his writing, he has been frequently featured in news broadcasts and worked with CNN as a political analyst for over ten years. He also served as a political analyst for CBS News and for the Voice of America. He is also a guest contributor for Political Wire."

Worked for CNN, CBS.... are you suspicious yet? I am.

[GeneCC]

Here is Harry S. Truman, celebrating his re-election.



The "experts" called it for Dewey.


Don't trust the experts. Trust in your judgment. Trust in your rights. Trust in yourself.

Get out and vote!

[GeneCC]

Tom Steyer said it in so many words....

San Francisco offshore hedge fund billionaire Tom Steyer is the biggest donor in American politics by a country mile. As of the most recent round of disclosures, he had contributed $42,725,000 to elect Democrats, which is more than the top 31 Republican donors—combined. So of course when the Arlington-based liberal blog Politico obtained a Steyer strategy memo last month, they headlined their story “Memo: Value in anti-Koch attacks” and completely ignored the shocking voter suppression strategy advocated by Steyer’s top political hand, Chris Lehane.

He goes on to identify specific smears and attacks designed to demoralize Republicans and suppress their turnout in those “Republican Haircut Programs.”

http://thefederalist.com/2014/10/15/...ession-scheme/


Maybe these characters decided to "lull us asleep" so that we don't vote? Why "demoralize" when you can fake people out with phony stories about "discouraged Democrats"?

Anyone else remember how "Romney was going to win" in 2012?


Paranoid? How many lies have these people told about firearms, about us, about our beliefs? These people lie like some folks breathe. It's natural to them because to them it's not a lie. It's "managing perception".

What's another trick to them? Asking a reporter a few days before an election to "talk about how Obama is going to lose the Senate".

[Philbert]

In 2012 predicting Democratic wins was a conspiracy to make Republicans think voting was hopeless. In 2014 predicting Republican wins is a conspiracy to make Republicans think voting is unnecessary.

I just don't get people who watch the polls to see if it's "worth" voting. The answer for any individual is almost certainly no in every election, if you look at it that way. An election is a shared responsibility among citizens. And they aren't just a matter of the winner takes all. If a state goes 90-10 for one candidate that's a different political landscape than if a state goes 55-45.

[Brick]

The upshot of all this in fewest words possible:
Get your butts out the door and VOTE! There's too much at stake to lose by sitting home!

[Gman106]

Just be sure to spread the word among your low-information democrat friends that to in order to prevent crowding or confrontation, poling days are split this year: Republicans will vote on Tuesday and Democrats will vote on Wednesday!