FOX working a paranoid hysteria about non-existent issue of voter fraud.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

Between now and Election Day, one of Attorney General Eric Holder's most important duties is making sure every eligible voter who wants to vote, can vote free from intimidation or coercion.

Unfortunately, it looks like FOX News commentators, Republican Party operatives and the Tea Party are making sure he'll have his work cut out for him. They are working conservatives into a paranoid hysteria about the non-existent issue of widespread voter fraud.

While the facts don't support these wild-eyed accusations, the "voter fraud" hysteria leads to the intimidation and harassment of eligible voters, usually in poor and minority neighborhoods, who are trying to exercise their basic right to vote.

What FOX News and the Tea Party activists are pushing is pure fiction, and the Department of Justice should refuse to lend legitimacy to these false accusations and to the right-wing groups building a media strategy around them.

Tell Attorney General Holder: Don't cave to the Tea Party — protect voters' rights! Click here to automatically sign the petition.

http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/holder_election2010/letter2.html?id=12032-445224-H_bwPfx

[rocktivity]

1. A pre-emptive strike against the Rethugs

not meeting their midterm election goals.

:headbang:
rocktivity

[Jeffersons Ghost]

5. it may also be a strategy of accusing an opponent of doing exactly what they intend to do

[OHdem10]

2. Fox creating this hoax --Democrats stealing the election and

Media almost purple from breathlessness trying to convince
everyone how the Republicans are the best show in town
tells some of us: Those Republicans are not doing quite
as well as they would have you think. I guess Fox meeds
some excuse when the results come in.

If there had been absolutely no action on the part
Republicans and if the Teaparty did not exist, the
Democrats were slated to lose 25 seats. So the first
25 losses do not go to the Republicans. They go to
history. This is what happens to the governing party
in Mid Term Elections.

When you have to stir up hoases and constant division
in order to try to win, do not expect much good to come.

[JustAnotherGen]

4. I posted something similar

Yesterday. Which narrative we are supposed to believe?

Landslide for Republicans


or



Democratic Party intends to 'steal the vote'.


It gives me hope.
That and if I recall correctly in 1994 the Republicans overall were down about 6%/7% prior to the election. I'm still digging for that precise number but I'm pretty sure it was touted as being a landslide for the left in 1994.

[alcibiades_mystery]

3. Two conclusions

1) They are paving the way for voter intimidation next Tuesday
2) They have internals showing that the "expected" Republican wave has been effectively countered, and they need a reason for why the House and Senate didn't fall into their clutches.

Likely both.

[truebrit71]

6. Both. I think they know that they aren't going to take over either chamber...

...and they are laying the groundwork for lawsuits and or poutrage when they don't win.

The voters of this country may very well be pissed off at the economic situation most of us are in, but they aren't stupid enough to lay the blame for that anywhere other than where it belongs...at the feet of the rethuglicans...

[Jeffersons Ghost]

10. I hope you're right

[HughMoran]

7. Translation: they're worried.

This is good news.

[truckin]

8. I think early voting might have a lot to do with this.

This is only a theory but in the past many low income precincts would have fewer voting machines than wealthier precincts. We saw an extreme example of this in Ohio in 2004. Additionally, when there is only one day to vote, a work day, when many poorer Americans have two jobs, family obligations, etc., they may not be able to vote. This is a subtle form of voter suppression that has been going on for years in primarily Democratic areas.

Early voting makes it much easier for low income Americans to vote and we are seeing more Democrats vote in early voting than Republicans and this is scaring the hell out of the right. With more convenient voting, more low income voters are casting their ballots. Good for Democracy, bad for Republicans so they have to scream voter fraud even when there is little or no evidence.

[felix_numinous]

9. Republicans owned Diebold.... nt

[AsahinaKimi]

11. I find it amazing that EVEN BEFORE THE ELECTION...

They are showing us their hand, that they intend to claim Voter Fraud. I mean, really...Isn't that a bit stupid?

[lpbk2713]

12. My guess -- they are expecting a big loss.

"But that's the only way it could have happened!!11!"

:rofl: