re: #129 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.

Nothing that complicated — Rove believed his internal polls while polls were mostly favoring Obama (and of course everyone around him was a Repug), so he wouldn’t believe that he might be wrong. I see the same thing in current polls that strongly favor Dems vs. pundit pronouncements — and if the vote is as rigged as our lizard optimists keep saying, why do we keep winning?

(But don’t get complacent.)

Well, in my opinion as an Ohioan…it would not surprise me if there was funny stuff going on in 2012.

Ohio has had problems with some funky Secretaries of State such as the highly suspicious Ken Blackwell in 2004. He was in charge of the distribution of voting machines that just happened to have way too many in precincts that were more White and in Republican heavy areas and very few machines in the highly Black/Democratic inner city areas of Columbus, Cleveland and Cincinnati.

I know, because my precinct was one. I stood in line for a good three hours or more. It was painful. But what gave everyone hope was we were all discussing how this was fucked up, but no one was going to quit the line because we were going to vote one way or another. We knew.

And since then, there have been more machines in my precinct. Sometimes more machines than needed.

That was not a very difficult way to manipulate the vote. Depress the voters so they give up and go home.