Fraud or Monolith?:In 59 Philadelphia voting divisions, Mitt Romney got zero votes (polls, Hispanics)
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Why? 15 of these districts shut out McCain in 2008 as well. And I've clicked on about 20 others, and they all gave McCain 5 or fewer votes. Weather was crap that day, not to mention Romney is a Bishop in a church that until recently considered black skin a mark of sin. It makes perfect sense to me that in 40 or so very small, almost entirely black districts in North and West Philly, Romney would get 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 fewer votes than McCain did 4 years ago.
Another point that needs mentioning, the Republican voter suppression attempt really, really pissed off a lot of African Americans here in Philly.
Why? 15 of these districts shut out McCain in 2008 as well. And I've clicked on about 20 others, and they all gave McCain 5 or fewer votes. Weather was crap that day, not to mention Romney is a Bishop in a church that until recently considered black skin a mark of sin. It makes perfect sense to me that in 40 or so very small, almost entirely black districts in North and West Philly, Romney would get 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 fewer votes than McCain did 4 years ago.
It ain't like I expect Romney to get much more than one vote out of one or two hundred. Take the one vote out of 200 scenario. Once you get past a 1000 votes with no votes for Romney something starts smelling funny. By the time you get to 19000 votes there needs to be a darn good explanation. I really don't think every single McCain voter would have switched their vote, moved, died or not voted. The odds seem very long. I mean it seems like there would be at least a few black homophobes who would vote for Romney on that issue alone. In statistics fifty votes in a fifty/ fifty probability scenario means nothing. If a district that was tied in 2008 went 55/45 this time around that is within the norm.. If every single Republican vote disappears from a sample that had 50 or a 100 Republican votes before that is cause for concern.
It ain't like I expect Romney to get much more than one vote out of one or two hundred. Take the one vote out of 200 scenario. Once you get past a 1000 votes with no votes for Romney something starts smelling funny. By the time you get to 19000 votes there needs to be a darn good explanation.
Why are you conflating these districts into 1? We're talking about 59 discrete, different districts.
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I really don't think every single McCain voter would have switched their vote, moved, died or not voted. The odds seem very long.
It's extremely possible that every single McCain voter in any one of these districts would have switched their vote, moved, died, or not voted. The odds are not long at all. We're talking about 1 or 2 or 5 votes.
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In statistics fifty votes in a fifty/ fifty probability scenario means nothing. If a district that was tied in 2008 went 55/45 this time around that is within the norm.. If every single Republican vote disappears from a sample that had 50 or a 100 Republican votes before that is cause for concern.
We're not talking about samples of 50 or 100 Republican votes. We're talking about 1 or 2 or 5.
Once again, these are not district, they are division within districts most of which are two or three blocks in size.
Calm down with your smack, I'm not talking about divisions in reference to the analogy regarding voter behavior, allegiance, and 'voters thinking alike.' Historically, there have been congressional districts in Texas (and other Red states) that have always swung for the Republican candidate. It's the same type of behavior. You can't call out the Philly division case of African Americans overwhelmingly voting Democrat, without looking at similar voter behavior of Whites in other states leaning overwhelmingly (and historically) to the Republican side.
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"Upon hearing the numbers, Steve Miskin, a spokesman for Republicans in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, brought up his party's voter-identification initiative - which was held off for this election - and said, "We believe we need to continue ensuring the integrity of the ballot."
The absence of a voter-ID law, however, would not stop anyone from voting for a Republican candidate."
Its insane to think that of all those thousands of votes that not one contrarian would toss in a vote for Romney. Either the vote retabulator program wasn't set properly or somebody locally who recast the ballots is on the stupid side.
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Also people in these areas tend to live near others of the same race, so I'm sure there were polling locations which had 100% all Black or 100% all Hispanic.
So are you saying black people are incapable of thinking for themselves and automatically go with skin color?
Another point that needs mentioning, the Republican voter suppression attempt really, really pissed off a lot of African Americans here in Philly.
I had to show my ID to vote in ID in a very conservative republican area who is being suppressed against voting?
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