GOP will "win" unless Dems wake up (Harvey Wasserman posts dying on the vine lately-this is CRUCIAL)

[HomerRamone]

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?

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Harvey-Wasserman-on-New-Bo-by-Joan-Brunwasser-120902-909.html

[a geek named Bob]

1. sales spam...

Toss the thread

[HomerRamone]

3. I have no connection to the authors and I deleted the part about the book nt

[a geek named Bob]

4. much better

[elleng]

2. Right that 'the Democratic Party has done absolutely nothing . . . ,'

but I have an idea about what would have occurred had they tried: NADA.

[AverageJoe90]

5. Voter suppression is indeed a serious problem.......

But now isn't the time for excessive pessimism and hand-wringing(yes, Harvey's kinda guilty, too, though he's made some good points) . We've gotten this far, haven't we? In fact, lately I've seen that things are perhaps slowly, but still surely, turning in our favor. Texas's voter ID law's been struck down. So has Wisconsin's. And GOP crooks in Fla., AND Ohio are in serious trouble.

Yes, it's true that the Dem party leadership hasn't done nearly what they could to address this issue in Congress. But with enough voices out there, things WILL turn around. It worked with Civil Rights, and with Labor Rights(both of which were opposed with huge amounts of Establishment cash and agitprop!), and it will work with voting rights. We just need to keep on pushing......JFK and MLK Jr. would have wanted that.

[HomerRamone]

6. What are people doing about the riggable machines?

Praying?

[BumRushDaShow]

7. What are You doing about them?

[HomerRamone]

8. working with the Election Defense Alliance

and trying to make people aware of the problem. And you?