Comments on: Are The Netroots Frightened?

By: Black Jack

Black Jack — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 00:02:19 +0000

The guys who want to cheat on elections are the ones who oppose commonsense voter ID requirements. If you wouldn’t cash a check for a stranger who didn’t have positive ID, you already know why it’s necessary to ID voters.

By: Randy

Randy — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 23:26:49 +0000

Nope, I don’t think so. Republicans are always pointing to alleged fraudulent voting by Democrats, but their claims almost never hold up to scrutiny. Illegal voting is a crime, but there are no recent cases of any prosecutions or convictions. All that aside, 1,500 votes is small potatos compared to the amount of mischief a crooked Secretary of State like Blackwell can wreak.

By: Gaius

Gaius — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:54:35 +0000

Or it could be that some damage is being undone by cleaning up voter lists that have been padded:

http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2006/10/12/why-id-should-be-required-to-vote-again/

By: Randy

Randy — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:50:25 +0000

Most likely the Republicans will win again this year, even though the vast majority of Americans want change. They’ve already began massive voter purges agianst Democratic districts in 4 states including Ohio. The scenario goes something like this: select a district with a Democratic leaning voter base, run a program that scans the voters’ addresses against a list made up from their original voter registration, disqualify any voter it there is the slightest difference in the address (such as differences in abreviations apartment numbers, etc.) , send out a highly confusing letter in lagalese that states in fine print that the victim needs to report somewhere to get re-added to the voter role.

The fix is in. Millions of voters are being disqualified right now in plain site. How ironic that a right winger would accuse the Democrats of contempt for the voters.

By: Peter in Hastings

Peter in Hastings — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:50:09 +0000

Desperate indeed, snort. Bower’s idea is just one idea in a range of Democratic efforts to influence this election, just like the Republicans engage in all sorts of efforts to do so. Bower’s biggest contribution to date was to push the netroots to get active in local campaigns to ensure that every district was contested. We came close, and that has paid dividends since well over 40 campaigns are now competitive in the midst of the GOP gotterdammerung. The Democratic party is taking nothing for granted, and the netroots certainly know better than anyone else, that the GOP ground game is top notch and that every Democrat should do what they can and what they are comfortable with, whether it is google-bombing or voter phone-calling, to get our guys elected.

We certainly are scared. We are scared for our country’s future. The party in power has managed to so badly botch things that we haven’t seen numbers like this in polling – whether it is Bush’s historic period in the polling gutter (no one comes close) – or the right direction/wrong direction polls, or, for that matter, the polls out of Iraq which show most Iraqis want us the hell out of there. We’re in sad shape, and the guys responsible for that should pay. We need to ensure on November 7th that they will.

By: madmatt

madmatt — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:31:25 +0000

To the right the electorate should be disenfranchised as quickly as possible so save your words!!!

By: The American Mind / Netroots to Waste Time Google Bombing

The American Mind / Netroots to Waste Time Google Bombing — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:24:22 +0000

[...] Ever since Howard Dean, M.D. came out of nowhere the “progressive” netroots think internet technology is their competitive advantage. Maybe in 5-10 more years when network television loses even more of its audience to new media then I’ll consider seriously such an audacious scheme. There’s a reason so much campaign money goes into tv commercials. Blue Crab Boulevard talks about the Republican’s “real ground game.” While the netroots plays with Google the GOP is “micro-targeting” voters with their Voter Vault. The party can also track how many calls have been made and doors knocked. That tech tool has pushed the Republicans into the lead in Get Out The Vote (GOTV) efforts. [...]

By: Hyscience

Hyscience — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 15:09:25 +0000

The Election 2006 Republican Googlebomb…

So in order that we do our share of helping out with a Republican Googlebomb, we’ve posted the appropriate links below:…

By: The Real Ugly American.com » Blog Archive » A clever election tactic or cheating?

Mon, 23 Oct 2006 14:30:10 +0000

[...] This will be an interesting test of the theory that search king Googleâ€™s leftist owners are using their market leading power to intentionally skew search results and news content. Given that this plan to game the system has been publically announced on a very prominent website (Google PageRank and is being widely publicized elsewhere, it should be a simple task for Google to not only thwart this plan but to ban the participants from their metrics. [...]

By: Don Singleton

Don Singleton — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 14:23:59 +0000

Desperate Dems try Google Bombing…

They pretend anything in the Democratic MSM is non-partisan….

By: drlloyd11

drlloyd11 — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 13:37:38 +0000

No.. They are strong this year than 2004 and much strong than 2002. In 2008 they will be stronger still .

By: Outside The Beltway | OTB

Outside The Beltway | OTB — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:04:40 +0000

Netroots Plan to Spam Google for Democracy…

The unscrupulous Chris Bowers has hatched a devious plan to influence the election:

Step One: With help form readers at Dailykos and MyDD, I will compile a list of seventy article, one for each targeted race. Every article will focus on a different Re…