I continue researching and trying to understand just what happened last week. This was the most important election of our time, other than a Presidential election, and the Republicans "won" by huge and unexpected margins. The worst case was in Virginia where poll aggregator Sam Wang had Mark Warner up by 10 points. Warner's current margin of victory is so low, I haven't even seen his supposed winning percentage.
Wang has an interesting post up on his web site, saying essentially that since turn-out was so low (the lowest since 1942), polling was subject to even more serious error than originally thought. But why was turn-out down so far? Democrats do indeed do worse when turn-out goes down. To answer the question Wang talks about the media with their Ebola and ISIL scares.
The media is surely largely to blame for the current state of affairs. I will have more on this later. But isn't it possible that depressed turn-out was more a result of successful Republican dirty tricks to try to suppress the vote? I have already stated I myself ended up being one of the victims of this voter suppression effort. In my case at least, it had nothing to do with the "Ebola Show," as I do not watch TV at home.
Others are saying much the same thing. Why are pundits blaming the polls? Why are they not questioning the announced vote totals? After all, monkeying around with the vote has a long tradition in elections all around this country, including the United States. Especially since 2000 when the Republicans had to try to elect a clearly novice politician, George W. Bush, the Republicans have been going all out to repress voting in every way they can. Many of these efforts have been reported by Brad Blog and re-posted here.
What we are dealing with is *not* a situation which Vice-President Biden excuses as "You can't win them all." As much as I respect the Vice-President, what a weak and inaccurate explanation of this sham of an election.
Of course, I realize much of what I am saying here needs further investigation. However, this is not the first time in recent years the results of an election have been questioned. In fact in 2005, there was an official protest in Congress of the announced re-election of G. W. Bush! Does anyone remember this? So, I now call for a protest in Congress in January of the alleged "take-over" of Congress by Republicans. There are now enough credible allegations of vote tally tampering, voter suppression efforts, and vote spoiling campaigns to warrant such a protest. We need at least one member of each house of Congres to call the matter into question. Congress then goes into session to debate the matter.
We interrupt this post --
to bring you a better idea. Something should be done immediately to challenge these results. Undoubtedly such an effort would take money. If the money can't be had, the media must be prevailed against through all legal means to bring these concerns to the American people. If this is unavailing the non-violent tactics of the Civil Rights movement need to be dusted off. For much of the vote suppression efforts are aimed at blacks (who vote Democratic) and amount to a new Jim Crow regime.
Wang has an interesting post up on his web site, saying essentially that since turn-out was so low (the lowest since 1942), polling was subject to even more serious error than originally thought. But why was turn-out down so far? Democrats do indeed do worse when turn-out goes down. To answer the question Wang talks about the media with their Ebola and ISIL scares.
The media is surely largely to blame for the current state of affairs. I will have more on this later. But isn't it possible that depressed turn-out was more a result of successful Republican dirty tricks to try to suppress the vote? I have already stated I myself ended up being one of the victims of this voter suppression effort. In my case at least, it had nothing to do with the "Ebola Show," as I do not watch TV at home.
Others are saying much the same thing. Why are pundits blaming the polls? Why are they not questioning the announced vote totals? After all, monkeying around with the vote has a long tradition in elections all around this country, including the United States. Especially since 2000 when the Republicans had to try to elect a clearly novice politician, George W. Bush, the Republicans have been going all out to repress voting in every way they can. Many of these efforts have been reported by Brad Blog and re-posted here.
What we are dealing with is *not* a situation which Vice-President Biden excuses as "You can't win them all." As much as I respect the Vice-President, what a weak and inaccurate explanation of this sham of an election.
Of course, I realize much of what I am saying here needs further investigation. However, this is not the first time in recent years the results of an election have been questioned. In fact in 2005, there was an official protest in Congress of the announced re-election of G. W. Bush! Does anyone remember this? So, I now call for a protest in Congress in January of the alleged "take-over" of Congress by Republicans. There are now enough credible allegations of vote tally tampering, voter suppression efforts, and vote spoiling campaigns to warrant such a protest. We need at least one member of each house of Congres to call the matter into question. Congress then goes into session to debate the matter.
We interrupt this post --
to bring you a better idea. Something should be done immediately to challenge these results. Undoubtedly such an effort would take money. If the money can't be had, the media must be prevailed against through all legal means to bring these concerns to the American people. If this is unavailing the non-violent tactics of the Civil Rights movement need to be dusted off. For much of the vote suppression efforts are aimed at blacks (who vote Democratic) and amount to a new Jim Crow regime.
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