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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts) Wed Aug 24, 2016, 11:57 AM Aug 2016

Massive Voter Suppression, Intimidation, Dirty Tricks W/Armed Observers Possible.

Trump's rhetoric on voting looks like a "call to arms" when the vote begins. You cannot put it past the GOP to pull out all of its forces to steal this election. They are like a desperate rat in a corner and will do anything.

The most problematic areas will be in the reddest and even some bluer areas of the country. When you see a bunch of assault rifle armed protesters outside of the NAACP anything is possible. I am sure the white supremacists and KKK have a plan of their own because they know minorities will essentially determine the victors of this election cycle

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Massive Voter Suppression, Intimidation, Dirty Tricks W/Armed Observers Possible. (Original Post) TheMastersNemesis Aug 2016 OP

Some African Americans outside a polling place with AR15's to protect the vote upaloopa Aug 2016 #1

What statistics do you have... Honest.Dem Aug 2016 #2

per Gallup, minority voters swung the popular vote in 2012, 2008, 2000, 1992, 1976, and 1960 JustinL Aug 2016 #3

He is such an f&^%ing ass. You bring up a good point though...if you had to vote at a place jmg257 Aug 2016 #4

upaloopa

(11,417 posts)

1. Some African Americans outside a polling place with AR15's to protect the vote

Reply to TheMastersNemesis (Original post)

Wed Aug 24, 2016, 12:25 PM

Aug 2016

would scare the shit out of the KKK and supremacists.

Honest.Dem

(30 posts)

2. What statistics do you have...

Reply to TheMastersNemesis (Original post)

Wed Aug 24, 2016, 12:34 PM

Aug 2016

that would show that the minority vote "will essentially determine the victors of this election cycle"? I'm not sure the minority population is yet large enough to swing the election one way or the other.

JustinL

(722 posts)

3. per Gallup, minority voters swung the popular vote in 2012, 2008, 2000, 1992, 1976, and 1960

Reply to Honest.Dem (Reply #2)

Wed Aug 24, 2016, 12:51 PM

Aug 2016

Going back to 1952, the only Democrats who won the white vote were Clinton in 1996 and Johnson in 1964.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/139880/election-polls-presidential-vote-groups.aspx

If whites were the only ones to vote in 2012, Romney would have won a landslide 441-97 victory in the electoral college. See map 3 at the following link:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeedpolitics/what-the-2012-election-would-have-looked-like-with?utm_term=.fmnvV4p6R#.wdMqL3QAW

jmg257

(11,996 posts)

4. He is such an f&^%ing ass. You bring up a good point though...if you had to vote at a place

Reply to TheMastersNemesis (Original post)

Wed Aug 24, 2016, 01:40 PM

Aug 2016

being "observed" by these goons - would you do so?

ETA: I see one post mentions AA doing the open carrying in retort - would it matter who was doing the carrying?

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