http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240/ "Stories like these have filled the web since the tide turned against John Kerry late Tuesday night. But not until Friday did they begin to spill into the more conventional news media. That’s when the Cincinnati Enquirer reported that officials in Warren County, Ohio, had “locked down” its administration building to prevent anybody from observing the vote count there. Suspicious enough on the face of it, the decision got more dubious still when County Commissioners confirmed that they were acting on the advice of their Emergency Services Director, Frank Young. Mr. Young had explained that he had been advised by the federal government to implement the measures for the sake of Homeland Security. Gotcha. Tom Ridge thought Osama Bin Laden was planning to hit Caesar Creek State Park in Waynesville. During the vote count in Lebanon."
The author can't be this clueless about counties in the south with high democratic registration that vote heavily republican in national elections. The Pennsylvania comparison doesn't hold water because that state doesn't have the same vestigial democratic registration as southern states. Kentucky is a better comparison--here are some counties with Dem registration advantages that voted heavily for Bush. Barren: Dem registration 63-32, Bush won 67-32 Bourbon: Dem registration 75-20, Bush won 72-28 Boyle: Dem registration 64-29, Bush won 62-37 Bracken: Dem registration 80-16, Bush won 65-34 Bullitt: Dem registration 60-32, Bush won 68-32 That's just counties that start with the letter B...Democrats have a 58-35 registration advantage statewide, but Bush won 60-40. http://www.kysos.com/Elecfil/Monthlystat/monthlystat.txt
You have to live in Ohio to find Waynesville on a map...to that end, I'm not sure many Ohioans could find Ohio, let alone Waynesville on a map. [/end anti-Ohio rant]
I'd love to get the bottom of this. I say just contact every single person in one of those places and find out. The only thing, for every precinct in KY you check this way, you have to let a random precinct in urban areas to also be checked for veracity. Pretty sure I know which way the voter fraud scales would tip.
Have you seen a map of CA or NY by county--red or blue? Both CA and NY are as red as the National map.
Yeah, but only the places where nobody actually lives. Have you ever been to San Bernardino County, California?
Yeah, nobody lives in San Diego. The combined population of California's red counties is in the 15-16 million range. It has more people than my urban county that went 75% for Kerry.
Uh, how about 54-44%. Yeah, you can cherry pick counties for or vs. your cause. So Orange County, Ventura and San Diego counties went red. Big f'ing surprise. Still doesn't change the big sea of blue of the Bay Area and LA County. 54-44.
I wasn't saying it was close, just countering the argument that the red counties are where nobody lives.
If only Chris Farley was still alive. He and David Spade could team up and get to the bottom of this.