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Alan Houston
November 5, 2012 at 10:58 pm
Although statistical models provide evidence that President Obama has a 90% to 98% chance of winning, I am very pleased that the mass media and TV reports that the election is a tie, and it could go either way.
I saw some 80 year old black ladies wait four hours in line to early vote in Houston, Texas (Harris County limits the number of voting machines in black neighborhoods, the wait in wealthy white neighborhoods is 15 minutes to 30 minutes).
Other black voters in Houston were forced to stand in line until 1 a.m., others were told they would be killed by a bomb if they did not leave the polling station. These folks were in line because the election is a tie.
I did not have the heart to tell them that the President has zero chance of getting the electoral votes from Texas. I am hoping Obama supporters in Ohio are willing to stand in line three hours, or stay in line until 1 a.m., and refuse to run when tea party members stage a fake bombing of the polling center. If Democrats in Ohio believe that the election is a tie, they will vote, and if every Democrat in Ohio votes, the President will win another four year term.
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November 5, 2012 at 10:58 pm
Although statistical models provide evidence that President Obama has a 90% to 98% chance of winning, I am very pleased that the mass media and TV reports that the election is a tie, and it could go either way.
I saw some 80 year old black ladies wait four hours in line to early vote in Houston, Texas (Harris County limits the number of voting machines in black neighborhoods, the wait in wealthy white neighborhoods is 15 minutes to 30 minutes).
Other black voters in Houston were forced to stand in line until 1 a.m., others were told they would be killed by a bomb if they did not leave the polling station. These folks were in line because the election is a tie.
I did not have the heart to tell them that the President has zero chance of getting the electoral votes from Texas. I am hoping Obama supporters in Ohio are willing to stand in line three hours, or stay in line until 1 a.m., and refuse to run when tea party members stage a fake bombing of the polling center. If Democrats in Ohio believe that the election is a tie, they will vote, and if every Democrat in Ohio votes, the President will win another four year term.
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If This Doesn't Move You, Nothing Will. (Original Post)
DemocratSinceBirth
Nov 2012
OP
Moving, yes, but unbelievable crap - what you said about the times waiting to vote, the bomb
codjh9
Nov 2012
#1
Sorry. 1) No, I meant 'what was said in what you posted', not 'you', and 2) I didn't mean 'I don't
codjh9
Nov 2012
#5
Think About What An Eighty Year Old African American In TX Has Witnessed
DemocratSinceBirth
Nov 2012
#6
codjh9
(2,781 posts)1. Moving, yes, but unbelievable crap - what you said about the times waiting to vote, the bomb
threat, etc.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)4. I'm Not Alan Houston
And if you think he is prevaricating it is incumbent upon you to go to the site, register, and inform him of such.
codjh9
(2,781 posts)5. Sorry. 1) No, I meant 'what was said in what you posted', not 'you', and 2) I didn't mean 'I don't
think what he's saying is true', when I said 'unbelievable'; I meant 'I can't believe the never-ending shit those assholes do'.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)6. Think About What An Eighty Year Old African American In TX Has Witnessed
They were born in 1932. That means their formative years were spent under Jim Crow. Houston's account makes perfect sense.
kstewart33
(6,551 posts)2. Their vote counts in Texas. It adds to Obama's national total. nt
Bake
(21,977 posts)8. And Kentucky!
And Alabama and Mississippi and Georgia!!
Every DUer in the South needs to vote and take others with them to vote!!
Bake
Tenleytown
(109 posts)3. I voted in DC which will go 90+
but everyone has to do that to increase his popular vote!!
savalez
(3,517 posts)7. Texas will be Blue... Someday. n/t
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)9. Hopefully