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5. No to the conspiracies

Reply to Quixote1818 (Original post)

Sun Nov 18, 2012, 04:04 PM

Nov 2012

The real effort to steal the election was by voter ID laws, voter purgers and long lines. The courts and Obama's GOTV effort prevented the Republicans from stealing Ohio.

All those thinking that Rove has some evil switch that will flip the election but was foiled at the last minute by a hacker group has been watching too many movies.

Romney's campaign couldn't even gets its killer app ORCA working properly. What makes you expect them to devise so elaborate scheme to steal the election using computers?

It's much easier to just have laws to make it harder for Democratic leaning supporters to vote.

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Do you believe Anonymous stopped Rove from stealing Ohio? [View all] Quixote1818 Nov 2012 OP

Whether they stopped him with a fire wall, or simply by messing with the heads of some 1monster Nov 2012 #1

Agree 100%. nt Quixote1818 Nov 2012 #2

Too much editorializing in the poll. cthulu2016 Nov 2012 #3

Rove would not have been so upset, except he was certain he had it in the bag. I think something teddy51 Nov 2012 #4

Agreed! Heather MC Nov 2012 #6

Have you ever spent 300 million dollars of other people's money cthulu2016 Nov 2012 #14

I want to know what was in Husted's patch! Was Rove involved in something with Husted? teddy51 Nov 2012 #20

No to the conspiracies gravity Nov 2012 #5

"Other" ^^^this^^^ /nt demwing Nov 2012 #7

Yep. GoCubsGo Nov 2012 #12

Those are conspiracies. JackRiddler Nov 2012 #17

I have a strong feeling *something* went wrong for Rove but there's no way to know for sure pacalo Nov 2012 #8

We won the election. randome Nov 2012 #9

I am amazed this CT hasn't been relegated to our creative speculation area Godhumor Nov 2012 #10

Anonymous hears all our prayers. randome Nov 2012 #11

I'm amazed that your tolerance is so low. JackRiddler Nov 2012 #15

That's your opinion and some of us don't share that. teddy51 Nov 2012 #22

Other - Too much blah-blah in your answers. JackRiddler Nov 2012 #13

One of the naysayers claimed DU was populated with Kingofalldems Nov 2012 #16

I don't know if it was Anonymous, but somebody stopped Rove from stealing Ohio yardwork Nov 2012 #18

I think big claims require big evidence, and they've offered none. Marr Nov 2012 #19

I know it's painful to accept, but our elections are not secure ecstatic Nov 2012 #21