GOP will "win" unless Dems wake up (Harvey Wasserman posts dying on the vine lately-this is CRUCIAL)
This is going *nowhere* in General Discussion. Is it because Obama was allowed to win and DUers have been lulled into a false sense of security? One of the few comments said, "things WILL turn around...We just need to keep on pushing" and I replied, "What are people doing about the riggable machines? Praying?"
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Harvey-Wasserman-on-New-Bo-by-Joan-Brunwasser-120902-909.html
The reality is that through the Electoral College, which narrows the number of votes the GOP needs to steal; the suppression of voter turnout, i.e. the new electronic Jim Crow; the theft of the vote count with e-voting machines; and control of the governorships in most of the key swing states, the Republicans have something close to a lock on this election.
Add in Citizens United and the unlimited cash they can spend and you have an almost unbeatable fortress. It could be defeated, as it was in 2008, by an inspired and devoted grassroots army of election protection activists. But Obama's corporate presidency has cut the heart out of the movement that put him in office. So no matter how badly Romney/Ryan might appear to screw up, in the end it appears highly likely they will take the White House, one way or another. We don't, after all, think Rove, Adelson and the Koch Boys will let mere legalities stand in the way of their trillion-dollar agenda, do we?
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Since then, the Democratic Party has done absolutely nothing to reform the process. There are far more flippable electronic voting machines in use now than there were back in 2000 and 2004. A governor or secretary of state can flip a vote count in a matter of minutes. But it's the Democrats who stand to lose big time this year. The GOP controls the governorships of nine key swing states. But if the Dems are unwilling to say anything about it, why would the corporate media pursue the story?
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