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quantass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 05:49 AM
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OBAMA CAMPAIGN: McCain's Absentee Ballot Scam NEEDS Killer Deflection ADs
Edited on Sat Sep-13-08 05:52 AM by quantass
I thought jeff.marchiafava submitted an excellent post entitled "A Call for Action: What Obama Has to do to Win This Election" here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7052155. In particular:

#2: Alert the voting public that the McCain campaign has been sending out thousands of absentee ballots that are invalid: ballots going to purple states, targeted at democrats. This is despicable, indefensible, and ILLEGAL. People need to hear about it, and a television ad is the perfect medium: let them know that "the maverick", who has promised a change from dirty republican tactics is trying to stop thousands of people from voting for his opponent -- and disrupting the cornerstone of democracy. Bringing this to the attention of the American people goes beyond the help it would do for Obama in the polls: if people aren't alerted to this all across the nation, the problem won't be fixed, people will be duped, and their votes wont count: don't let McCain get away with this!


I felt this was information worth its own post and hopefully the Obama campaign will consider it. I just dont understand the DNC and democratic politicians. If you dont want to lose you go on the attack and effectively deflect these tactics. I really think such tactics need to be made knownp to the entire public after all Republicans always rely upon ignorance.
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Vinca Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 05:54 AM
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1. Absolutely. The ad should say they can't win fairly and to watch
for a number of different tactics. It should also tell people to check on their voting status now.
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Kitty Herder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 05:56 AM
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2. It might keep people from using these invalid ballots.
That alone would make an ad worth it.
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Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 06:02 AM
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3. It definitely would be money well spent.
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skids Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 06:03 AM
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4. Hrm a 501c3 that ran anti-fraud PSAs...

...sounds like a good idea, Not for this election, but...
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