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Election day excuse watch: If Democrats don’t win, it’s because the black vote was suppressed
While some Democrats are already pre-celebrating “victory” on election day, the MSM continues to churn its excuse-making machine in case Democrats happen to lose (aka not regain control of Congress) the election. I documented in this post and this one news articles where the MSM has gone through great lengths in order to point out the ‘rampant’ issues with voting machines, ballots, etc that may cause ‘potential’ problems on election day.
The NYT provides us with today’s example. First, note the headline, which is misleading:
Democrats Fear Disillusionment in Black Voters
When I first read that headline, I thought “wow – the NYT is actually printing an in depth story on how black voters have become disenfranchised with the Democratic party so much so in the last several years that more and more of them are registering as Independents rather than Democrats.” I should have known, though, that it was too good to be true. The topic of the article (emphasis added):
But despite a generally buoyant Democratic Party nationally, there are worries among Democratic strategists in some states that blacks may not turn up at the polls in big enough numbers because of disillusionment over past shenanigans.
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Voting experts say the disillusionment is the cumulative effect of election problems in 2000 and 2004, and a reaction to new identification and voter registration laws.
Long lines and shortages of poll workers in lower-income neighborhoods in the 2004 election and widespread reports of fliers with misinformation appearing in minority areas have also had a corrosive effect on confidence, experts say.
How could this affect black turnout?
The harder question is whether this jaded outlook will diminish turnout.
Recent polls have found record levels of outrage from Democrats about the current political leadership, which may offset the effect of black disillusion.
Translation: If the Democrats win, it’ll be in spite of black Democratic voter disillusionment over “past shenanigans” and worries that their vote will be suppressed. If they lose, it will be because black Democratic voters are jaded over “past shenanigans” and think their vote will be suppressed.
Thomas Lifson at the American Thinker is on the same page:
Blame low black turnout on “shenanigans” (implying GOP culpability) in past voting “problems”. Long lines at polling places with large numbers of black voters are the responsibility of local election officials, mostly Democrats in heavily black areas.
And what of the phenomenal turnout in black areas of Cleveland and Philadelphia, approaching 100%, in past elections?
The fact is that the left has been braying a mantra of “fixed” elections every time it loses. Those chickens may be coming home to roost, but of course it is always the fault of Republicans.
I’m assuming the role of broken record here, repeating something I wrote in a prior post about this:
[…] we need to know this, of course, in case Republicans retain control of Congress. If they don’t, then we’ll hear stories about how ’smoothly’ elections ran across the country.
Keep that in mind not only as election results are rolling in, but in the days after the election when the news media will be saturated with articles about why Democrats won or lost. They’re covering their bases right now – just in case.
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It would appear that the democrats are a little worried even before the events of last night that the election might not go as planned. Good, both sides should be working on actually selling their ideas to the public.
If you start planning offices and measuring drapes before the election, its a sure sign your not paying attention to what you should be doing..
I also think Democrats seem to get a case of election jitters that leads to “premature electionation.” They tend to pop the corks on their October surprises too soon. In 04, CBS shot off the Bush National Guard Fake But Accurate way to early, it gave the blogosphere plenty of time to find the warts on that one and shove it back in their faces. The Foley issue was broached way too early as well, voters have had a month now to forget about it. The MSM has done their usual journeyman duty, reporting on Foley over and over and over again, way more than was warranted by the events, but that has gotten to the point where it’s just boring people now and turning them off.
I just noticed something interesting about this site’s sofware. I typed “Accurate way too early” in the box, but it appeared in the post as “Accurate way to early.” I noticed this in the text that appears of your post, the preview, below the panel for entering text, and it carried over into the posted text. Weird bug.
Accurate way too early
User error !
No, I saw it in the box as “too” but it was in the text below as “to”. I then edited the box above, and it still showed up as “to” no amount of retyping “too” changed it. Odd.
Won’t do it again. I wuz robbed, robbed I tells ya!
Short between the keyboard and floor…
It’s the ID ten T problem.
If ya spelled it in Japanese Sev, ya wouldn’t have that problem! This too shall pass.
“Suppression Of The Black Vote”???!
Wasn’t that used in 2004 and 2000?
Hasn’t it been the first phrase through the Dems’ lips whenever they’ve lost?
Thought so!
Jack.
- Pretty soon they’ll be down to the dregs of the excuse barrel, with something like “The dog ate all of the ballots”.
- Bang
Funny how it turns out Foley’s “outter” was a former Democratic Senate staffer and was used by a gay-rights group. How can Democrats still think this stuff won’t get out? They’re even to incompetent to pull off an October surprise. They’re convulsively desperate at this point!
The Times is “some-ing” again:
“there are worries among Democratic strategists in some states that blacks may not turn up at the polls in big enough numbers because of disillusionment over past shenanigans.”
The newspaper is one against resorting to the “tyranny of the some.” To make, err, some story out of no story, they use the phrase “some states,” which is of course so vague a term as to be meaningless. Is this a majority of states? A majority of strategists? Who knows?
Then, of course, they find “some” people who support the idea of the story who quote back to the reporter what the reporter wants to hear.
Anyway, it would seem to me that if any individual or group is suffering from “disillusionment over past shenanigans,” then they would be–or at least should be–more determined than ever to get out and vote.
But, hey, that’s just me.
Taranto had a good take on this on his “Best of the Web” yesterday. He rightly points out that if blacks stay away from the polls because they think their votes don’t count, the Dems have no one to blame but themselves. It’s been the Dems who have whined and shrieked about black voter disenfranchisement after every lost election since 2000, despite the fact that investigations have never shown any malfeasance. So guys, congratulations, you’ve managed to deter one part of your base all on your own. Keep crying about the election results and implying, against all facts, that you wuz robbed, and then wonder why your base doesn’t think it’s worth turning out. Idiots.