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2016 Postmortem

flamingdem

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33. So Rove interjected there as well!

Reply to yellowcanine (Reply #30)

Thu Nov 8, 2012, 12:51 PM

Nov 2012

The other curiosity is that Anonymous warned him not to try to steal the election like he did before (see the other thread on that with video here) and the Columbus Free Press DUer said that they got the info about the patches via Wikileaks, which I guess essentially means Anonymous. So at a minimum we might conjecture that Obama would have won Ohio by a larger margin, the exit polls said 8%

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11/7am freepress: Vote totals for Obama and Romney inexplicably decreasing in three Ohio counties [View all] flamingdem Nov 2012 OP

What?? Why??? The Wielding Truth Nov 2012 #1

So.... dchill Nov 2012 #2

Or not working as "designed?" LisaL Nov 2012 #5

Shady shit demhottie Nov 2012 #3

the exits polls had an 8% Obama win, something was wrong with rove that night Tribetime Nov 2012 #4

Even Romney internals said he was losing by 5. pointsoflight Nov 2012 #6

They didn't install experimental software... dchill Nov 2012 #7

Excess Pee? Iggo Nov 2012 #8

We could call them flamingdem Nov 2012 #31

Overall exit polls? After all that Early Voting flamingdem Nov 2012 #24

This is circumstantial evidence of fraud and should be deeply investigated. Lint Head Nov 2012 #9

Exactly. avaistheone1 Nov 2012 #10

Was John Kerry in Ohio through the vote? patrice Nov 2012 #13

To me it's like the guy who goes into a bank to rob it and it doesn't work. Lint Head Nov 2012 #18

It's the only swing state that "underperformed" the RCP average blazeKing Nov 2012 #11

Rove was insistent that Romney votes just going to appear from somewhere. LisaL Nov 2012 #12

The story ends with "Stay tuned." Jim__ Nov 2012 #14

For the last 12 years we have been seeing funny number in the elections. fasttense Nov 2012 #15

What an unhelpful 'report' that is muriel_volestrangler Nov 2012 #16

who can this get reported too? barbiegeek Nov 2012 #17

kick crazylikafox Nov 2012 #19

Rove ... fugop Nov 2012 #20

If it was up to OH and FL, Romney would have contested for sure. LisaL Nov 2012 #21

I tend towards your opinion flamingdem Nov 2012 #25

I also assume that that is why Karl was upset. He thought they were going to flip it and couldn't OregonBlue Nov 2012 #22

Obama only lost Clark County Firebirds01 Nov 2012 #23

They might want to check that one out flamingdem Nov 2012 #26

Obama's actually got massive cover on this alcibiades_mystery Nov 2012 #27

I sure hope so but part of the deal might be flamingdem Nov 2012 #28

I was watching when Obama was projected to win the presidency because he won OH. LisaL Nov 2012 #29

Immediately after Rove reported he was expecting about 150,000 additional votes,.... OldDem2012 Nov 2012 #32

Remember Florida 2000. A lot of people forget that Florida was called for Gore. yellowcanine Nov 2012 #30

So Rove interjected there as well! flamingdem Nov 2012 #33

This needs to get some attention democrattotheend Nov 2012 #34