Romney Co-Chair: Voter ID Would Have Won Us Wisconsin
Source: talkingpointsmemo.com
A state senator who served as co-chair of Mitt Romneys Wisconsin campaign suggested this week that the Republican presidential nominee would have carried the state if a voter ID law had been in place.
Voter ID absolutely would have made a difference in the outcome of the election, state Sen. Alberta Darling (R) told Mike Gousha of WISN on Sunday. She suggested that voter fraud helped President Barack Obama win the state.
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Skittles
(153,193 posts)YOU LOST; GET OVER IT
montex
(93 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)on point
(2,506 posts)Blasphemer
(3,261 posts)Sounds like the GOP is drawing lines in the sand. The saner members want to moderate their positions. The crazies don't want the party to change, want to be even more extremist and see voter suppression/vote fraud as their path to victory. Whatever ultimately happens to their party, the Democrats and everyone else on the left needs to be even more vigilant. These folks are desperate and there is nothing a desperate GOP is incapable of doing.
"if we could have cheated, we'd have won!"
primavera
(5,191 posts)Danmel
(4,926 posts)The more they talk, the better it is for us.
JohnnyRingo
(18,648 posts)Romney would have won if fewer democrats had voted. Also true if blacks were still counted as three fifths of a vote.
Republicans were always a nostalgic bunch.
mindwalker_i
(4,407 posts)to rival cosmological phenomena would have also won you Wisconsin.
But you were, so you didn't.
secondwind
(16,903 posts)as they voted to keep their despicable Governor.... the POTUS is very popular in WI
WinstonSmith4740
(3,059 posts)Poor dears...they are rather pathetic. It's amazing how bullies get when someone hands them their butt.
But the bottom line here is, just what difference would this have made? Less of an embarrassment if Ryan had carried his home state?
blackspade
(10,056 posts)What a POS.
mzmolly
(51,005 posts)My rear. How do these fools explain the massive amount of polls, showing Obama in the lead in Wisconsin? Is that 'fraud' too?
Zoeisright
(8,339 posts)Shut the fuck up, Darling, you worthless unAmerican treasonous piece of SHIT.
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)He purged thousands of names and did all he could do to cut back on early voting
And yet Obama won anyways.
jmowreader
(50,562 posts)The Republicans rely on gerrymandering and voter suppression to help them retain some semblance of a hold on power. I never thought I'd see them admit it, though.
When the only ways you can get elected are by adjusting the electorate and keeping the other party's voters away from the polls, you need to just hang it the fuck up and go home.
Carolina
(6,960 posts)Nika
(546 posts)LynneSin
(95,337 posts)What bullshit!
It's a shame that the GOP has to cheat to win.
truthisfreedom
(23,155 posts)It's kinda like living in a world where exactly 47.6 percent of the population are actually gibbons. No offense to real gibbons. I'm just intrigued with the whole walking on knuckles thing.
AllyCat
(16,227 posts)However, even had you won our crazy state, YOU STILL WOULD HAVE LOST THE ELECTION. NOW GO AWAY!
Incitatus
(5,317 posts)That 200k times someone who knew the name and address of a registered voter, and knew that voter wasn't going to vote showed up and cast a fraudulent vote?
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)I think Willard is the first candidate to have his people openly admit that they could not win if people were allowed to vote.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)Once again, thank you lazy 2010 voters.
jerseyjack
(1,361 posts)Done right, voter id would add two or three minutes per voter. Multiply that by a few hundred x a few hundred districts and people would have gone home, frustrated. = fewer voters.
redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)should be proactive and get so e type of photo id before the next election. Republicans will not give up on trying to keep voters away, especially black and brown ones who tend to vote Democratic. If people would begin to get required id now, and if they continue to check to make sure they are still registered the repugs lose.
It caught so many people off guard this time. I can guarantee voters you must stay on top of this long before it is time to vote and you must be prepared to fight on election day if someone challenges your Constitutional right to VOTE!
We need a grassroots effort to continue to register voters, and offer transportation for anyone who needs id before the midterms, we could really hurt them at that point if we are ready.
oswaldactedalone
(3,491 posts)especially that last sentence. This is exactly right.
dragonlady
(3,577 posts)However, for many people the problem is not just getting a ride to the DMV to get a state ID. They lack the birth certificate or marriage license that they would have to provide to get that ID, and can't afford the money or hassle to obtain those documents. The list of acceptable IDs in the (for now) enjoined Wisconsin law is limited, by design, to eliminate low-income voters and students.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Soooo sorry that isn't going to happen Enjoy your delusions (and DENIAL that your candidate was Bozo the Circus Clown).
ewagner
(18,964 posts)has Voter ID as one of his top priorities now that they own the Assembly and the Senate...they will try to write a "constitutional" Voter ID bill.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)"...why cant we have voter ID when the majority of our people in Wisconsin wanted it, we passed it, the governor signed it? Why should one judge in Dane County be able to hold it up?"
Or she thinks that the hegemony of her party should make the Courts bend to their will.
CoffeeCat
(24,411 posts)Voting is a protected constitutional right.
The government should not impede voting. The government should not require a note from your mom in order to vote--or a DNA sample or a test. Nor should it require an ID.
Make no mistake, they'll try to post voter ID laws in most swing states. If you look up all of the states that have voter ID and the states where legislation is pending--it's all about the swing states.
We all know this is about voter suppression. It's unAmerican. These people are Fascist toolbags.
I live in a swing state and our Secretary of State couldn't get our state Dem-majority legislature to pass voter ID--so he passed the laws himself!!!! He passed "emergency voter ID laws" in our state. Boy, he sure ran a track meet trying to kiss the Republican-party dons and their corrupt butts.
The story ended well though. A judge struck down these ridiculous "emergency" laws a few weeks before the election.
I'm getting so tired of these criminals.
Helen Reddy
(998 posts)that Republicans cheated like crazy all over the place, yet President Obama not only prevailed, but handily prevailed.
Their base is shrinking rapidly, the only trick they have remaining is the voter suppression.
bobthedrummer
(26,083 posts)Acornsouth
(299 posts)As with all the republicans trying to find any excuse to explain why voters overwhelming rejected their policys, and voted for President Obama, if their is any evidence of voter fraud, then prosocute the fraudsters, but if no aresst have been made, then shut the hell up and and stop making false statements becasue you are sore losers....