It turns out that the difference between the Diebold machine counted precincts and the hand counted precincts are EXACTLY the difference between the polled numbers, including exit polls, and the actual results.
http://bradblog.com
Complete trash:
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As the breathless sports coverage of the presidential primaries bursts around me this morning, I’m doing my best to resist surrendering to the contrived drama about “comeback kids” and the flying shrapnel of numbers and hold onto my troubled skepticism about the electoral process, or at least most of it.
First of all, before we get too enthusiastic about feminist solidarity or wax knowingly about New Hampshire Democrats’ traditional soft-heartedness toward the Clinton family, let’s ponder yet again the possibility of tainted results, which is such an unfun prospect most of the media can’t bear to remember that all the problems we’ve had with electronic voting machines — and Diebold machines in particular, which dominate New Hampshire polling places — remain unsolved.
Did the Hillary campaign really defy the pollsters? She had been trailing Barack Obama by 13 percentage points, 42 to 29, in a recent Zogby poll, as election watchdog Brad Friedman pointed out. And the weekend’s “rapturous packed rallies for Mr. Obama,” as the New York Times put it, “suggested Mrs. Clinton was in dire shape.”
So when she emerged from the Tuesday primary with an 8,000-vote and 3-percentage-point victory over Obama, perhaps — considering the notorious unreliability, not to mention hackability, of Diebold machines — the media might have hoisted a few red flags in the coverage, rather than immediately chalk the results up to Clinton’s tears and voter unpredictability. (Oh, if only more reporters considered red flags patriotic.)
The fact is, whatever actually happened in New Hampshire voting booths on Tuesday, our elections are horrifically insecure. For instance, Bev Harris, of the highly respected voting watchdog organization Black Box Voting, recently wrote that the Diebold 1.94w optical scan machines used in some 55 percent of New Hampshire precincts (representing more than 80 percent of the state’s voters) are “the exact same make, model and version hacked in the Black Box Voting project in Leon County (Florida)” a few years ago. They haven’t been upgraded; the security problems haven’t been fixed.
National, or at least media, denial about this situation doesn’t say much for the strength of our democracy.
31 Ron Paul votes mysteriously didn't appear in one county. When a family complained about it, Bev Harris called up the county clerk and demanded to be told the raw numbers. The clerk said the omission of 31 votes was "human error"
HUMAN ERROR? 31 VOTES?
What ELSE are they doing up there?
Here is another credulous report about the statistically impossible results from New Hampshire:
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5530#more-5530
This is not conspiracy theory folks. It really is a statistical impossibility. There is simply no way the entrance AND exit polls could have been this wrong, Bradley effect or not.
http://blackboxvoting.org
Does anyone have a good sized PDF (or GIF) in true size of the Obama '08 campaign signs?
The hate posts that are going up here are just indicative that we are winning folks!
Here is a debunking article on this ridiculous and hateful nonsense spouted by the below poster:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/muslim.asp
Londonderry, NH turnout is estimated by the election supervisor at .. get this...
70% !!!!!!!!!
Obama 08!!!!!!
I know this has been posted before, but it is simply stunning. Until I saw this, I hadn't actually shed tears during an Obama pictorial or speech... now I have. I felt all the pain of the many years of broken promises and machine politics melt and I felt real hope. Beyond all the words, and even beyond the hope I *thought* I was feeling, this video put me over the top.
Watch it, please. You'll be glad you did. Share it. Download it.
It's slow at first.. you wont regret watching it all the way through :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCPwbozpIzM
Ok so it's not a stunning endorsement, but from INSIDE the Bush whitehouse, this interview is as close to an endorsement as you can get! Notice she didn't say "or gender" at the end :)
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From NBC's Libby LeistCondolezza Rice, the second black secretary of state and who was once a part of the 2008 candidate rumor mill, has weighed in on the rise of Obama this campaign season.
In an interview with BBC Arabic, Rice said Obama's candidacy is "obviously different" than other black leaders that have come before him because he has a chance to win the Presidency.
Rice described Obama as someone she knows and respects from his work on the Senate Foreign Relations committee. They've also coordinated in the past week to help bring about about peace in Kenya.
But, she was too careful to go any further in analyzing the race. She added that this election year she believes voters will go beyond skin color in choosing a leader.
"that's the very best thing about America today, because we've come a long way as a country when we can really believe that the decision about whether or not to vote for someone will be on whether or not that person represents your political views and your policy choices, not the issue of the color of the skin," she said.
Wall Street's big movers and shakers have been taken off guard by Barack Obama's rapid rise, which is signalling a renewed populism in America. They were all set to wage war against The Clintons, eking out a 1 or 2 point win in the general election just like the last two times.. through vote tampering, intimidation and bribery.
But Barack Obama has thrown a monkey wrench into all of that, and they are scared.
Michael Bloomberg is being tapped now. The top movers and shakers are pressuring him very heavily to run as an Independent, so as to split the vote, and take away enough votes from Obama so that they can do the same to us, yet again. They recognize that none of the Republican nominees have the strength to beat Obama in a one on one match, and this has the frightened for their position as masters of our economy and policy.
You see, they want things to remain just as they are. They have unprecedented power and influence in our government, and would like nothing better than to have an unvarnished corporatist in Washington so they can continue to keep us dismal and in fear, and divided.
The old ways die hard. At this time, and for the next 9 months we must be vigilant as we never have been before. They will do anything to maintain poiwer, and so we must make the margin so great, so crippling that no amount of tampering will stop it, no amount of intimidation will prevent us from turning out, and to shame those who would speak against the man who is the best hope for AMerica, and the world.
The Primary is just the beginning. We must get out th evote as we have never done before. We must be tireless. We must be prepared to give of ourselves as we never have before in order to safeguard our process, and to propel the one agent of change in this race who is honest, and will do what is right to set straight the American economy, government and politics.
Voluteer now!! We are going to need every last person to stand as witness to our success and drown out the drum beaters, doubters and paid shills of those whom would betray us to fatten their own pockets.
Get out there now!!!!!
Obama 08!!!!!!!!!
Snopes has done a great job of debunking this email, for those of you whom are tired of seeing it :)
Just toss that link as a response.
Someone uploaded Barack's full speech from the 100 club dinner here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=175xNc2fzik#
O-BA-MA!!!
Go here!!! GIve Barack your vote!!
http://apps.facebook.com/castyourvote/
Mrs. Edwards just said on Hardball that "Barack Obama is for Nuclear power, which doesn't go over well with people in New Hampshire"
Isn't that interesting.. especially considering he is NOT *for* nuclear power. He specifically has stated that he is "Agnostic" about it, meaning if it can be made safe, secure and disposal problems can be solved in a safe fashion, he would then keep it on the table. If not, then it would be off the table.
He also said that the NRC should be revamped, that independent investigations should be made into plants to determine their safety, and more.
Here is a video with his statements for the record:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRxl2cVFTLw
