More scare tactics.

Anecdote - I live on a corner in a middle-income neighborhood. In 2000, there were yard signs of the Dem variety in every yard but my own, meaning seven of eight yards had signs.

ONE SIGN THIS YEAR. And not a Kerry-Edwards sign, but a local race.

Across my back fence and the street lives a liberal Democrat who works for our liberal Congressman. In 2000, she had yard signs for dang near every race. This year? No Kerry-Edwards sign. All the local and state races, but no Kerry-Edwards sign…

What gives?

Posted by: Cap'n DOC at October 4, 2004 07:48 AM

Four Theories:
1) The local Democratic Party is short of funds, and so is not making signs available.
2) The Republican Party is sending out SS-type thugs to intimidate voters
3) The Republican Party is sending out Elves at Midnight to take away all the signs
4) Kerry/Edwards is a lousy team

As I live on the other side of the Pacific, where the concept of having allegiance signs is looked upon with bemusement - we don’t even have those for Football - I wouldn’t care to guess.

Posted by: aebrain at October 4, 2004 08:00 AM

Are they back on that gripe again?!!!!!

Posted by: Jim at October 4, 2004 08:57 AM

..if the American people can not see through the guise of the Democratic party..power at all costs..maybe we have lost our way..

Posted by: Rob_NC at October 4, 2004 10:06 AM

Yes, Rob, I think you may have lost your way if you think that it is the Democratic Party that is the win at any cost party. It is consistent with the Conservative/Republican view that you would assert this easily refuted and obviously false claim to avoid having to admit that it is your own party that has been proven to have suppressed the opposition vote in Florida, Michigan and Ohio. I’m not just talking about 2000, but the voter intimidation in Florida, the “paper stock” ploy in Ohio and the clear comments by GOP strategists that they need to “suppress the vote in Detroit”.

Here is a tip. It’s not necessarily a “conspiracy theory” if it’s true. Then it’s a conspiracy. I have no confidence that you will understand this since you probably also believe that Iraq is going well and freedom is on the march in spite of the evidence in the form of bodies.

Isn’t in the list bit curious to you that whenever light is shined on a practice by Republican partisans (such as in Florida with the voter purges or Ohio with the registration validity,) the practice has to be reversed? When people see what the Republicans are doing, they can’t do it any more. What does that tell you?

Posted by: elemgee at October 4, 2004 10:40 AM

“since you probably also believe that Iraq is going well and freedom is on the march in spite of the evidence in the form of bodies.”

..not sure how war ever goes “well”,people dying does not promote going well in my book,but if the Iraqi`s can be free to live the life they choose..then yes I believe in the effort to give them the chance..the cost will be high..it always has been and always will be..230+ yrs we still struggle..

..bullets in W.Va.,signs snatched from children,ripped into pieces,badgered,election offices looted and destroyed,etc..

..claims are made that the rep`s are creating a environment that defanchises the democratic vote..right..the election officers are democratic..so pleeze give me a break the dem`s are grasping at straws and making outlandish claims..voter fraud does seem to be a problem..pondering..why does it seem its the left that is the most guilty..reform..nation wide..proof of citizenship,proof of registration (duel registration gets you …)…needs to be made a priority.

Pondering again.. why is the democratic party the party the lawyers guild just adores,$$$$…a cash cow with deep pockets..

Posted by: Rob_NC at October 4, 2004 11:39 AM

elemgee

“proven”?? When? By whom? Every valid investigation into FL has come to the conclusion that while there were serious shortcomings by local officials there was no evidence (you know, “evidence”? as in “proof”?) of any deliberate or intentional disenfranchisement. Even the OSCE concurs and their 2002 report on FL:

Following the adoption of remedial measures at the county,
state and federal levels, these shortcomings have been addressed to a significant degree,
demonstrating the responsive nature of U.S. democracy. While room for some further
improvement remains, a number of measures adopted in Florida can serve as an example of
good practice to the rest of the U.S. and other OSCE participating States.

Now there is serious investigations going on in several states dealing with bogus registrations. And now Camp Kerry is race-baiting in the most egregious manner. Coincidence?

I would love to see your “proof” that “GOP strategists” have made “clear statements” about “supressing the vote.” I enjoy urban legend entertainment.

Posted by: Darleen at October 4, 2004 11:47 AM

..as a side note..remember the draft scare that was perpetuated on the college kids..yep.. the are bills being put forth that promote this… elemgee..guess who..yep.. you got it its the left..

Posted by: Rob_NC at October 4, 2004 11:58 AM

I think this answers all of the b.s. media hoopla about Kerry being tied and it being a tight race, etc.

Kerry wouldn’t be resorting to this sort of desperate, unfounded, divisive crap if he thought he was within striking distance.

Posted by: TL at October 4, 2004 01:05 PM

Check out the R comments on the Detroit vote, for a further discussion of what’s happening Out There.

Posted by: Don at October 4, 2004 01:13 PM

What about the Democratic election official in New Mexico who was tried and convicted for stealing ballots from the ballot box and staching them in his garage…!! I guess that’s not “supressing” the vote, just stealing it..

Posted by: Colorado at October 4, 2004 03:36 PM

There are now more registered voters in St. Louis than there are adults of voting age, which has to represent some sort of victory for George Soros and his felon-employing get-out-the-vote movement. The democrats hope to kindle 50 Floridas this time. But don’t take my word for it, just watch.

One million disenfranchised blacks, Mr. Kerry? Are counting the incarcerated in that total? Are you aware a felon cannot vote in a national election? Why stop there? Promise an investigation into Jewish doctors injecting black babies with AIDS virus - that’s an equally popular fiction widely helded in the black community. Or have Michael Moore invent some new urban legends - Porky’s always got a new twist for the feeble-minded imagination. Hell, more than half of LA can’t read, they’re READY for this.

Remember what Dan Rather taught us, it’s not whether the material is REAL, it’s whether you BELIEVE. Spin this right and it sounds like the end of The Wizard of OZ.

Posted by: torpedo_eight at October 4, 2004 10:05 PM

ae This may seem a bit odd to you (the business of yard signs, but it is big here. We’ve noticed VERY FEW Kerry-Edwards signs, but all kinds of them for local and state races. There is no shortage of funds, IMHO. Just a shortage of support.

Posted by: Cap'n DOC at October 4, 2004 10:41 PM

10/16/04

It is a well known fact that during the 2000 election the Democrats sent teams of lawyers to challenge and disqualify absentee military votes throughout Florida. Technicalities such as no postage mark were cited. (Military mail is somtimes not postmarked.) Later it was found that most were wrongly disqualified, but it was too late to reinstate them. An estimated 1,500 absentee military votes were never counted in Florida.

The Democrats are using the ballot issue of Nader in their attempt to disenfranchise our troops overseas from sending in their vote in a timely manner that by law mandates specific timeframes for allowing absentee ballots to be counted.

If states that the democrats succeed in having Nader removed from thier respective ballots, printing of corrected ballots, as required by law, more than likely will have thousands of troops in a war zone from having their vote count in the 2004 presidential election. These troops are fighting a war and dying and do not deserve to have democrats use their legal powers of challenge to prevent their vote from counting. We have an obligation to our troops and the underhanded strategic manouver by Democrats is unamerican and unethical but totally calculated to improve their vote count.

Democratic Presidential Candidate John Kerry recently told the NAACP in a speech that his campaign would provide teams of lawyers “in your cities” to “monitor elections and enforce the law.” Are Democratic legal teams again planning to challenge the absentee votes of our overseas troops on technicalities?

Anyone who would support a political party that would stoop so low in their quest to gain the power of the whitehouse is not worthy of anothers trust on anything. The strategy should be criminalized as an attempt to defraud Americans of their civil right to have their vote count.

Lorraine Knight
Virginia Beach

Posted by: Lorraine at October 17, 2004 12:19 AM