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In reply to the discussion: Retired NSA Analyst Proves GOP Is Stealing Elections [View all]ReasonableToo
(505 posts)Obama was too far ahead of McCain/Palin to tweak '08. Also, they wanted to leave the Dems holding the bag when the s#!^ really hit the fan. Look at Kerry in Ohio. Kerry's results were lower than exit polls show.
The average low info voter and even well-meaning skeptics won't sort through all the statistics and graphs in the supporting links that others have provided in responses below (see the graph that shows the Santorum/Romney flip) so they'll be happy when they're told that there is nothing to see here.
I'd love to be proven wrong but I doubt that this will get much play (or objective coverage) in the mainstream media. The folks that are calling the shots for the elections are also calling the shots for the corporate media. There are third rail topics that the media knows that they can't touch no matter how much objective, scientific, logical evidence exists. (Climate change is a small third rail and 9/11 truth is a major third rail lest you get fired like Phil Donahue even though he had very high ratings.)
Think back to the primaries with record LOW republican turnout because their choices were non-candidates. Did anyone on this site think that any of those idiots would poll higher than 30% against Prez O? Yet here we are looking at neck and neck polls. They have to stay close so that the 10% thumb on the scale will work. They have to change or get rid of exit polling so that the 10% thumb on the scale will work. They have to establish confusion at the polling places with ID laws and purging rolls and challenging votes with caged letters so that they 10% thumb on the scale will work.
(note: yes, I'm pulling much of this from my reply on a duplicate thread)