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Was the 2012
Election Stolen?

American Thinker, by Selwyn Duke

Original Article

Posted By:duhem, 11/13/2012 8:06:44 AM

As the 2012 election approached, conservative enthusiasm grew. Mitt Romney was drawing huge crowds while Barack Obama spoke in half-filled stadiums. All the passion lay on the right, while the left was discouraged with a promised messiah who proved merely a politician. And the prediction was that, in contrast to 2008, Republican turnout would dwarf the tuned-out and carry the day. Hence the shock November 6 eve. How could Romney lose, especially by such a wide electoral margin? Maybe he didn´t

Comments:
It isn´t consolation but...When there are no Romney votes in 59 Philadelphia precincts, what is one to think? Is there any way to divide the country into blue and red?

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Di Guy, 11/13/2012 8:13:26 AM     (No. 9010723)

Yes, the election was stolen. And, no, nothing can or will be done about it. Nothing will be done about it -- this time or the next time.


Reply 2 - Posted by: TakeBackAmerica, 11/13/2012 8:14:21 AM     (No. 9010727)

Of course it was stolen...with traitorously criminal levels of corruption that may never be fully known.


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: civilservant, 11/13/2012 8:17:14 AM     (No. 9010735)

Is the Pope Catholic?
Do bears.....well you know.....
Is water wet?
Is Presnidebt Uhhhhbama corrupt?

All eternal verities, all as true as the headline question.


Reply 4 - Posted by: Safari Man, 11/13/2012 8:25:39 AM     (No. 9010754)

The outrageous thing is that we have no way to prove this. The system is almost designed to enable this type of fraud, and the dimocrats fought tooth and nail to prevent any form of integrity checks. Grand Thef Nation.


Reply 5 - Posted by: ufos4, 11/13/2012 8:26:15 AM     (No. 9010755)

Not was, but how. This playing nice business has cost us everything.


Reply 6 - Posted by: harleynyc, 11/13/2012 8:26:54 AM     (No. 9010757)

Yes, the entire election was a farce. The results need to be cancelled, and a new election with voter id enforced is what we need.


Reply 7 - Posted by: Catherine, 11/13/2012 8:27:08 AM     (No. 9010759)

Yes it was. Will anyone do something about it? See Gen Patreaus. He´s a shining example of what happens when/if you cross those in power right now. The only consolation I have is all those fools who stumped for Obama will be in as big of a mess as we all will be....they just don´t know it yet.


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: Nimby, 11/13/2012 8:27:09 AM     (No. 9010760)

What are Repubs going to do about it going forward? Does the house have enough cajones to shut down the govt and stop the cheat in his tracks?


Reply 9 - Posted by: Blue Hen1, 11/13/2012 8:27:42 AM     (No. 9010761)

Allen West knows....


Reply 10 - Posted by: surgedr, 11/13/2012 8:34:26 AM     (No. 9010774)

I am going to say something that won´t be popular but just my belief. Mr. Obama reelection is because we as a nation have turned away from God and as a result, God´s blessings are no longer protecting us. We can be smarter next time, field better candidates, or have a better GOTV, but until we begin to change hearts and lives, before we begin to evangelize those 1/5 of the the electorate that has no religion whatsoever, before we begin to recognize our need for God again, I´m afraid we are going to be in for some difficult times as a nation. It´s up to us to stand up for our faith, and our freedom, but more importantly to share that faith, and bring others back to a relationship with God. One heart and one mind at a time.


Reply 11 - Posted by: spahrkl, 11/13/2012 8:34:28 AM     (No. 9010775)

Really!!!! Soooooo, what is being done?

Fast and Furious - results, nothing
Benghase - results, nothing
Disregard for the constitution - results 0
Obamacare - not wanted by the public results 0
Huge parties, lots of money spent on parties at the WH - results - nothing
Conspiring to weaken our military - results, nothing.
On and on it goes. Nothing is done. The country is being stolen and comments are made about, we see it, know it, talk about it,and nothing is done. The people of the US out number the gang in Washington but we
sit back and watch. Hmmmmmmmm, anyone remember Hitler?


Reply 12 - Posted by: Hotrod, 11/13/2012 8:35:19 AM     (No. 9010778)

All the veterans who have served and died for this country have died for this? Election fraud, corrupt government, selling of America´s heritage?


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: NancyD, 11/13/2012 8:39:10 AM     (No. 9010788)

I want every single voting machine used in PA, FL and OH SECRETLY examined. Record the findings unedited.

There is no way in heck that no one in 59 districts in Philly voted for Romney.

Another way to show fraud is to showcase people who live within that area and prove that they voted and have them testify that they voted for Romney and that their vote was changed.

They would however have to fear for their lives because the master would not allow the truth to come out.


Reply 14 - Posted by: mickturn, 11/13/2012 8:39:44 AM     (No. 9010789)

This was planned since the 2008 loss by McPain. The DIMS have several projects run by old ACORN thugs, Union Thugs and general lackey´s. I have no doubt that included the voting machine software folks.

How do we stop that? I have a way.

Certified certificate voting over the Internet. All fully audited as votes are made, any fraud can be immediately traced to a location by IP address allocation. This eliminates ballot stuffers, paper ballots etc. If a person doesn´t have Internet they have to go to a polling place and use the computer there to vote. The Takers/Thurs/Thieves (T3) have taken over this country and we need to get it back before they run it into the ground...which is at least 47% done!


Reply 15 - Posted by: mikeyt64, 11/13/2012 8:43:10 AM     (No. 9010799)

bravo. good read. sadly I dont see much being done about it. The overwhelming fraud in Philly would be page one had this been Bush v Gore.


Reply 16 - Posted by: pomom, 11/13/2012 8:45:30 AM     (No. 9010810)

Just think about this for a minute. George W. Bush won two terms, beating Al Gore and John Kerry. White guy on white guy and Bush won those same swing states.

When there´s a black Chicago-style thug running, all of a sudden there´s a huge disparity in the vote. They pulled out every trick in the bag to rig this one for their man.


Reply 17 - Posted by: Grambo, 11/13/2012 8:46:13 AM     (No. 9010812)

When ballots become meaningless, bullets become manifest.


   

 

  


 
Reply 18 - Posted by: SteelTurman, 11/13/2012 8:53:58 AM     (No. 9010826)

Now I understand.

The elections were stolen.

Chief Justice Roberts was blackmailed.

Our military is being purged.

And Breitbart was murdered.

Welcome to the new Amerika.

Now, what do we do about it?

Hmmm?


Reply 19 - Posted by: mabeldog, 11/13/2012 8:54:35 AM     (No. 9010829)

The presidential election is fought only in 11 or so "swing" states. No one else´s vote matters. The Democrats totally understand that. When it became clear to the Chicago thugs who ran Zero´s campaign that he could not run on his record, their masterful re-election effort consisted of 2 separate efforts. Number one with the complicity of the press, trashing Romney. Over and over, lies about him, his family, calling him a killer an elitist on and on, drumming it into the moronic TV watchers until they were successfully brainwashed. Number two with the complicity of the press start screaming about racism. And early "voting". And ID´s. How unfair it is to black people to only be allowed one day, or 10 days or 100 days of "voting" because they are poor. And also too poor to be able to buy IDs. Jon Husted is Ohio fended off many lawsuits until he gave in. A Democratic poll watcher where I volunteered told me her daughter in college and FOUR HUNDRED friends all from Cleveland and all in college in DC (!!) came in buses to vote early. Please. And then like many other Romney poll volunteers I was driven out of the poll on election day for nothing so the 7 Obama volunteers could work in tandem with the paid poll works, helping people vote. Their goal was achieved. Running up the score in the ghettos of the swing states so that no amount of legitimate voters in the suburbs and exurbs could catch up.


Reply 20 - Posted by: fljack, 11/13/2012 8:55:46 AM     (No. 9010835)

In a nutshell, YES!

What can we do about it on the state and local levels?

What WILL we do about it on the federal, state and local levels?


Reply 21 - Posted by: mitzi, 11/13/2012 8:58:02 AM     (No. 9010841)

Let´s just call it "affirmative action voting" rather than fraud. /s


Reply 22 - Posted by: Nan, 11/13/2012 9:00:26 AM     (No. 9010848)

Of course it was, no doubt about it.


   

 



 
Reply 23 - Posted by: GoVirginia!, 11/13/2012 9:04:42 AM     (No. 9010860)

There are more than 50 MILLION of us. Why are we sitting at our computers whining? LETS ROLL. First to Washington DC, to visit our__ahem__ representatives and then a little trip over to the Capital and White House. No violence, just presence.

Make demands: an election with real controls. Limits on terms. Transparency. Prosecution of the criminals. And so on and so on.

If even a tenth of the 50 MILLION showed up, there would be some action.

So again, why are we sitting in front of our computers, whining? Even the Argentinians did better this year...

My family and friends are all ready to go, tell me when and where.

And if this is just too much for the patriots, at least take the five minutes to write to your addle headed "representatives" and tell them a thing or two. Again, if they are inundated with 50 MILLION emails/letters, they might decide it is time to stop being such mealy mouthed momma´s boys (and girls) and raise their lying voices.

PLEASE? Come on, Glen Beck, give out the call. Someone? Anyone?


Reply 24 - Posted by: Me?Opinionated?Nah!, 11/13/2012 9:07:25 AM     (No. 9010865)

Stolen? Indeed! Taken, pinched, pilfered, filched, lifted, appropriated, embezzled, pocketed, purloined, robbed and… need I say more? Yes, it was stolen! You blankety-blank know it was!

The results of this farce, referred to as an election, are absolutely loaded wall-to-wall with outlandishness and preposterousness anyone with a functioning brain can see right through. Obama is not entitled to be our President any more than he was four years ago. How can anyone conceive of a higher crime than this one?

By the way, in my opinion, this article is as deserving of Must Read status as Must Reads ever get.


Reply 25 - Posted by: dolphin, 11/13/2012 9:08:40 AM     (No. 9010871)

What #18 said.


Reply 26 - Posted by: Passion, 11/13/2012 9:14:29 AM     (No. 9010882)

#10 what you say is irrelevant here because one is about the public rule of law and order in secular government, and the other is a personal heart issue. I happen to agree with your deeper point, but this board is a discussion of the issues.

Be wise as serpents.......


Reply 27 - Posted by: curious1, 11/13/2012 9:18:12 AM     (No. 9010892)

#23, and ´presence´ has the same effect as sitting at your computer whining. They know 60-70% of Americans don´t like it. But until they start getting dragged from their offices and hanged from the nearest light post they´ll continue their destruction of this Republic.


Reply 28 - Posted by: kahunavol, 11/13/2012 9:21:09 AM     (No. 9010900)

Sent an email question to my state´s GOP yesterday asking why we don´t get a print out of how our votes are recorded. We fill out a ballot, put it into a machine of some sort but get no verification that the vote was recorded as cast. It could as easily be a shredder as anything else.


Reply 29 - Posted by: TigerLilly, 11/13/2012 9:28:22 AM     (No. 9010915)

The election was stolen, there was not much enthusiasm for Obama pre-election, Romney had magnificent crowds. Romney conceded maybe a little bit early, but it was the gentlemanly thing to do and we expected no less from him. I wish he and Ryan, the math whiz, would get together and seriously delve into the voter fraud and make it their life´s mission to see that this never happens again. Romney has to do something with the rest of his life and this would be a great legacy.


Reply 30 - Posted by: dman, 11/13/2012 9:34:17 AM     (No. 9010937)

Exactly, #18. We need leaders. That leadership may or may not come from those currently in office. The Tea Parties were ineffective this year - time to be rid of the Agenda 21 distraction (where did that really come from, anyway?) and the baloney that TPs shouldn´t endorse candidates. Even the most ignorant can now see where that got us. The various Tea Parties and parties like the Constitutional and Libertarian parties must get their acts together and coalesce into single, coherent, political party.

While we laud the faith of posters like #10, there is no practical plan of action in what they propose. Whether God will bless this nation or not is already baked in. The immorality is there. Shall those "less immoral" (words chosen carefully - we´re all sinners to some extent; those who deny it are liars) simply wring their hands and wait for Divine intervention? Convert those who sin more than we, one heart at a time? Gimme a break.

We´re waiting for real leaders with a real plan of action.


Reply 31 - Posted by: jimmiet, 11/13/2012 9:37:54 AM     (No. 9010950)

#10s point is the issue. God will not be mocked, that is more than relevant. Without His intervention the forces of evil will overcome us as they have.


Reply 32 - Posted by: Pepper Tree, 11/13/2012 9:51:33 AM     (No. 9010971)

Then there is this to consider, Romney won (another way of saying Obama lost) in every state where photo ID was required to cast a vote.

Our ´leadership´ (unlike brazen democrat thugs) are afraid to get out in front of an issue like voter fraud and pound on it with the same air of conviction that the other side goes after "denying women birth control."

It is way past time to get adult about this and state some common sense. If you cannot produce a photo ID in 21rst Century America, you do not have the minimum faculties or legal standing to vote in a national election. Period.

Let democrats squawk about the poor fearful blacks who are so cowed by past mistreatment at the hands of Bull Connor, Jim Crow, and Brer Fox that they can´t walk into a state DMV office for an ID.

There are endless clips of large, threatening women talking coarsely about burning someone else´s property down if anything they don´t like happens. Are these the timid voters whose rights Eric Holder is trying to protect?

Maybe it´s the nursing home residents with dimentia being handed absentee ballots and "helped" by good Samaritan democrats in their vote selection that needs open examination.

In any case, we need Pit Bulls and Dobermanns representing our interests, not "my distinguished colleague" types trying to be fair and civil to a bunch of sociopaths like Harry Reid, and idiots like mom in tennis shoes, Patty Murray.


Reply 33 - Posted by: Time4AR2, 11/13/2012 9:53:18 AM     (No. 9010978)

Anyone who thinks this can be fixed without violence is misguided and naive.

Americans have enslaved themselves and Masters do not listen when the slaves refuse to work... They crack the whip and demand more.

Did Pharaoh listen? Did King George listen? You think king barry and his merry band of thugs cares who marches?

They have taken more and more of our money for decades and now they have our healthcare, are on track to destroy our cheap energy, resulting in the total destruction of our economy.

Either hunker down or get out. There is a storm a-comin.


Reply 34 - Posted by: uno_thatguy, 11/13/2012 9:55:23 AM     (No. 9010983)

In Cuyahoga County, where Clevland is the county seat. In precincts with with about 5 to 6 hundred ballots cast,

16 precincts Romney had 0 votes.

50 precincts he had only 2 votes

125 precincts he had 4 or less.

hussein won this county but many of the precincts Romney actually won.

It´s who counts the votes!


Reply 35 - Posted by: Woodsman, 11/13/2012 9:56:05 AM     (No. 9010987)

Cmon Breitbart...find us some Romney voters in these precincts - Ohio and Florida too


Reply 36 - Posted by: PoliticalJunky, 11/13/2012 9:56:45 AM     (No. 9010992)

Allen West secured a partial recount, granted by the Supervisor of Elections. That paartial recount is now complete and has revealed 500 fraudulent votes. West is demanding a full recount. If the Supervisor will not give it to him he is going to go to court.

It is going to be hard to deny him because his district voted for Obama in larger numbers than there are voters there. They overplayed their hand and this sticks out like a sore thumb.


Reply 37 - Posted by: uno_thatguy, 11/13/2012 10:06:23 AM     (No. 9011036)

When voting machines were first used, a friend showed a gigantic lead in his race for state office but lost by a huge margin like 85%. He sat around for a couple of days then went door to door and in two blocks got sworn statements that more people voted for him than the total votes he got.

The machines were checked and every vote had been flipped. "Oh, but it was only an isolated case."

Only a nutcase would believe it can´t happen when the votes are counted.


Reply 38 - Posted by: Norwegian Goddess, 11/13/2012 10:06:30 AM     (No. 9011037)

Of course it was. And President Obama knows deep down that he´s a l.o.s.e.r!!!


Reply 39 - Posted by: LoneStarLarry, 11/13/2012 10:10:33 AM     (No. 9011054)

There may not even be another election. The man has 4 years to write executive orders out the wazoo. Plenty time enough to get more socialist/progressives elected to the senate and house, he has at least 2 picks for SCOTUS probably more.

Some "progressive" genius will come up with an "all new & fair" way of choosing leaders in the US. That way the cackling hens won´t have to worry about voter fraud, and they can be assured their vote will be safe and correct.
It´s for the kids, ya know...


Reply 40 - Posted by: Hardright, 11/13/2012 10:10:56 AM     (No. 9011060)

DUH! Is the Pope Catholic? Does a wild bear..., you get my drift.


Reply 41 - Posted by: QRP, 11/13/2012 10:23:51 AM     (No. 9011121)

All l know is the electronic voting machines they use in Colorado leave no audit trail. It would be child´s play to make them spit out any total they want.


Reply 42 - Posted by: Rumblehog, 11/13/2012 10:55:15 AM     (No. 9011230)

#17 is correct. One bullet, one vote.


Reply 43 - Posted by: pouncer, 11/13/2012 11:06:23 AM     (No. 9011273)

#10 I concur.


Reply 44 - Posted by: greg1a, 11/13/2012 11:43:44 AM     (No. 9011395)

Stolen? YES!!


Reply 45 - Posted by: stjohnswood, 11/13/2012 3:08:37 PM     (No. 9011814)

It was stolen.
And without relentless protest and outrage, you are pretty much guaranteed nothing will change -- for this election, and even more certain, for the next one. Even then, no easy route.
You´ll calm down, entertain yourself with sex scandals pretending to be about justice over Benghazi.

Check the Must Reads. See any mention of it today? Any effort to keep a spotlight on this?
No. But you can read repetitious, leering piece after repetitious leering piece all about Petraeus´ sex life. Hey, maybe Petraeus and Broadwell made some raunchy videos. And oooh, look there!! Shirtless photos!
That´s what´s really important right now in November of 2012.
Right?


Reply 46 - Posted by: Blackeagle, 11/13/2012 3:31:24 PM     (No. 9011857)

Not sure which is more depressing, the theory that the election was stolen - or the possibility that people actually voted that way.

Against Obamacare yet for Obama? In Floriduh?



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New Republic, by Tod Lindberg    Original Article
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No one is more preoccupied these days with Hillary Clinton´s 2016 plans than the Beltway political class—not even the former presidential candidate herself. To hear some tell it, her decision will be dispositive for all other Democrats thinking of entering the race. And pundits and reporters aren´t the only ones positing the "The Hillary Factor": No less than the House Democratic whip, Steny Hoyer, told BuzzFeed, “I don´t know that anybody would run against Hillary…. If she runs, she clears the field.” It´s an understandable conclusion, given Clinton´s stature in the Democratic Party and her 70 percent

Obama critic apologizes for
his ´poorly chosen words´
on gay marriage

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The Hill [Washington DC], by Alexandra Jaffe    Original Article
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Neurosurgeon Ben Carson, considered by some to be a potential Republican contender for president, apologized to Johns Hopkins University for the "poorly chosen words" he used in expressing his opposition to gay marriage last month.“I am sorry for any embarrassment this has caused,” Carson said in the letter, reported in New York Magazine.(Snip) "Although I do believe marriage is between a man and a woman, there are much less offensive ways to make that point. I hope all will look at a lifetime of service over some poorly chosen words.” Carson will remain as commencement speaker at Johns Hopkins,

Vanishing workforce
weighs on growth

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Washington Post, by Jim Tankersley    Original Article
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Put out an all-points bulletin: Millions of Americans have gone missing from the workforce. Every month that those would-be workers are gone raises the odds that they might never come back, dimming the prospects for future economic growth. The vanishing trend is more than a decade old, but it accelerated during the Great Recession. Throughout 2012, economists held out hope that it had stopped. But then came Friday’s jobs report, and hopes were dashed. The Labor Department reported that the U.S. labor force — everyone who has a job or is looking for one — shrank

The Secrets of Princeton
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New York Times, by Ross Douthat    Original Article
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Susan Patton, the Princeton alumna who became famous for her letter urging Ivy League women to use their college years to find a mate, has been denounced as a traitor to feminism, to coeducation, to the university ideal. But really she’s something much more interesting: a traitor to her class. Her betrayal consists of being gauche enough to acknowledge publicly a truth that everyone who’s come up through Ivy League culture knows intuitively —

Broadcasters worry
about ´Zero TV´ homes

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Associated Press, by Ryan Nakashima    Original Article
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Los Angeles — Some people have had it with TV. They´ve had enough of the 100-plus channel universe. They don´t like timing their lives around network show schedules. They´re tired of $100-plus monthly bills. A growing number of them have stopped paying for cable and satellite TV service, and don´t even use an antenna to get free signals over the air. (Snip) Last month, the Nielsen Co. started labeling people in this group "Zero TV" households, because they fall outside the traditional definition of a TV home. There are 5 million of these residences in the U.S., up from

Christians, here´s why we´re
losing our religion

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Fox News, by Craig Groeschel    Original Article
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Recent research indicates that the number of people who do not consider themselves a part of an organized religion is steadily on the rise. Interestingly enough, though the number of those religiously unaffiliated is increasing, there is little to no trend in the number of those who express atheist or agnostic beliefs. People aren’t saying they don’t believe in God. They’re saying they don’t believe in religion. They are not rejecting Christ. They are rejecting the church. This begs the question, “Why are we losing our religion?”

Beyonce, Jay-Z celebrate 5th
anniversary in Havana, Cuba

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Los Angeles Times, by Nardine Saad    Original Article
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Beyonce and Jay-Z celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary in Cuba this week. The couple, who married on April 4, 2008, took in the sights of Old Havana, visited a school, dined on a rooftop terrace and strolled the fan-filled streets in their island best.(snip).The power couple declined to answer journalists´ questions about their visit to the island nation, but some outlets are reporting that the moguls are there as tourists, though that would be illegal because of the half-century embargo the U.S. has on the Communist country. However, the Miami Herald said Washington has issued special licenses for


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