re: #134 Blind Frog Belly White

In the end, ‘legitimate’ is meaningless. In the absence of real evidence of cheating, it doesn’t matter what we think about the legitimacy.

What matters is how we respond.

I believe one thing the Dems must do is accomodate themselves to the current reality that the GOP controls a lot of State Houses and Governorships, so we’ll be fighting this Voter ID shit for years, and we won’t always win. That being the case, the way to deal with it is to keep fighting it while making sure everyone even remotely inclined to vote Democratic has an ID that allows them to vote under whatever Voter ID regime is passed in their state. It’ll cost money and shoeleather, but it will reduce the disenfranchisement.

I agree that there is no point in hooting and hollering about the election results, since there is no smoking gun.

But here’s an interesting thought experiment. Reverse (D) and (R) in the election of 2016. No way in hell would Republicans accept decisive and razor-thin margins of victory in several Democrat-run states as being legitimate, especially after an obvious ratfucking of their candidate by the FBI.