Posted September 09, 2016
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OneFiercePuppy: I actually watched your source, since you made a fair claim that I hadn't paid enough attention to it. If you had watched the source you linked, you'd have seen that from the beginning, Alex Jones is claiming there will be epidemics of voter fraud. At 6 minutes, in fact, there's a clip of the President saying that there was not voter fraud. But you'd have known that, if you had taken your own advice to pay attention.
Apparently you didn't watch enough of it. Because that video if I recall right, covers things from the beginning where Obama DOES say there's no fraud and has no clue what it is. Then they have a completely different story. Watching the first few minutes doesn't really equate to watching it all. OneFiercePuppy: That's...not how math works. If you're claiming that there are 73,000 fraudulent votes, then you're claiming an incidence rate much higher than 1 in 68 million. Come on, man. You'd know that, if you had bothered to, as you like to say, pay attention.
I'm not sure, but 40,000 thrown out votes is more than 1 in 68 million... You make it sound like there was what, 42 fraud votes? Sorry those numbers don't add up. And there were 73,000 fraudulent votes. Some of the 'voters' included micky mouse... Donald duck... and other cartoon characters. http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/politics/2008-10-18-3995453887_x.htm
The stories are almost comical: Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, registered to vote on Nov. 4. The entire starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys football team, signed up to go the polls -- in Nevada.
But no one in either presidential campaign is laughing. Not publicly, anyway.
Republicans, led by John McCain, are alleging widespread voter fraud. The Democrats and Barack Obama say the controversy is preposterous and is just political mudslinging.
In the middle is the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, known as ACORN, a grass-roots community group that has led liberal causes since it formed in 1970. This year, ACORN hired more than 13,000 part-time workers and sent them out in 21 states to sign up voters in minority and poor neighborhoods.
They submitted 1.3 million registration cards to local election officials.
Along the way, bogus ones appeared -- signed in the names of cartoon characters, professional football players and scores of others bearing the same handwriting. And in the past few days, those phony registrations have exploded into Republican condemnations of far-ranging misconduct, and a relatively obscure community activist group took a starring role, right behind Joe the Plumber, in the final presidential debate.
But no one in either presidential campaign is laughing. Not publicly, anyway.
Republicans, led by John McCain, are alleging widespread voter fraud. The Democrats and Barack Obama say the controversy is preposterous and is just political mudslinging.
In the middle is the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, known as ACORN, a grass-roots community group that has led liberal causes since it formed in 1970. This year, ACORN hired more than 13,000 part-time workers and sent them out in 21 states to sign up voters in minority and poor neighborhoods.
They submitted 1.3 million registration cards to local election officials.
Along the way, bogus ones appeared -- signed in the names of cartoon characters, professional football players and scores of others bearing the same handwriting. And in the past few days, those phony registrations have exploded into Republican condemnations of far-ranging misconduct, and a relatively obscure community activist group took a starring role, right behind Joe the Plumber, in the final presidential debate.
OneFiercePuppy: I checked the link you provided in your most recent post, too. Did you even bother to go look at the article that your source used? No, of course not. Because you're not paying attention.
I skimmed it over. But you know what? From now on I'll refer more to the Drudge reports for all citings. They link things much better than my stressed searching for legitimate sources when I don't know where to look. And I will probably get them wrong. OneFiercePuppy: Vetting your sources is hard. Nobody can get it right all the time; I don't, and I really do try. You need to try
I try. I really do. However history, social studies and politics are my WORST skills. I'm far more likely to cite the wrong articles for the right things, while elsewhere they have the articles on screen and the references for you to see.Post edited September 09, 2016 by rtcvb32