What makes me think there's widespread fraud is the fact that I've learned to accept the anomaly. I remember the first couple of times when watching returns, I was sure we'd won. The races were close but Republicans firmly in the lead. But then, at the last minute, some big city came in and, Magic Circus, the Dem pulled ahead.
The first couple of times that happened, I figured we lost, weird but we lost. Then, when it became the norm, when every close race was pulled out for the Dem at the last minute, after all the other votes were counted, then I saw the handwriting on the wall. This includes the VA Governor race of late.
Oh It is widespead, don’t get me wrong, it’s probably every race in every state. When a Republican loses a near tie, I never buy it. I think Romney definitely carried Florida for example.
The conservative Republican (Brady) led the race for Governor here in Illinois 4 years ago, led every poll, only to lose narrowly. Do I buy that? Hell no. But the real result clearly wouldn’t have been an easy Brady win like the polls showed, but a narrow one. Brady wasn’t a great choice (electibily wise, he’s from downstate and he’s more than a bit wooden, our most conservative nominee since 1960 though) for Governor but we had slim pickings here. This time we’re stuck with a corrupt RINO.
The city vote is always last to come in for various reasons, the voters are idiots, the poll workers are idiots. And yes of course they want it to come in last so they know how much extra padding they need.
But I don’t think it ever gives them more than a few % points at the most. Many points to Harry Reid over Sharron Angle as fraudulent, it’s a high fraud state to be sure. But he won by almost 6 points, sorry that’s too high a margin for fraud to be the difference, at least I think so. She still would have lost with zero fraud, awful candidate. Too many people use it as excuse to explain away losses that had more to do with hapless candidates than anything else.
Most races are not that close. In 2012 the only close GOP losses were ND (0.92%, fraud on the reservations would more than erase that) and MT (3.72%) which saw the rat win with 48.58% while the losertarian got a beefy 6.56%, doubtlessly mostly Republican-leaning voters unimpressed with our candidate, then Congressman Rehberg. In 2010 the only close loss was CO (1.68%). And in all 3 of those races our candidates were lousy, should have been easy wins, not close enough to steal.
The amount of races we’ve just plain blown, failed to recruit a candidate that could win, or lost because of some third party makes me sick. The GOP could have 60 Senators right now if they were on the ball.
What really gets me is the god damn recounts. Any Republican that wins by a small margin will probably have it overturned. The latest victim is the Republican that ran for AG of Virginia.
In 2004 in WA state after a Republican won the Governorship and the recount confirmed the win they did a SECOND recount to finally steal it for the rat.
Didn't need fraud there at that time to beat the GOP.
The shutdown was the kiss of death in VA, the sequester didn't help either.
VA is heavily dependent on government spending and shutting down the government was messing with their gravy train.
And it was for reasons not rationally explained (it got us NOTHING in return)
I live in nearby Maryland and VA is not Texas. Its the front.