2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumDemocratic Underground was founded after the stolen election in 2000
Do Hillary supporters realize that election fraud has taken place in this country?
Either Hillary supporters were not Democrats in 2000 and 2004, or they were not paying attention?
Or is it that the hired posters are from other countries and do not really understand what has been going on in our elections?
lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)TPTB are fine with democrats or republicans, provided the handle on the money faucet isn't tampered with.
reddread
(6,896 posts)owned.
tonyt53
(5,737 posts)Gore blew it on multiple levels. First, he disavowed everything accomplished under Bill Clinton and avoided any mention of his name during the elections. THAT was his biggest mistake. #2 was his not asking for an entire state recount of FL. The SCOTUS denied his recount of only selected counties, but would have allowed a statewide recount. Us "Hillary supporters" have always been Democrats and always will be. We don't live and die by conspiracy theories.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)SFnomad
(3,473 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Who voted for bush in Florida have a lot more to do. Nader is just your convenient excuse. For the record, I expect conservadems to vote for trump in large numbers so who will you blame?
SFnomad
(3,473 posts)I agree about SCOTUS , but I've never heard your 300K figure before, ever.
Nader pulled more people from Gore than he did Bush and without Nader in Florida, Harris and SCOTUS wouldn't have been able to have stolen the election.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)And it was those same conservadems who also voted for Reagan and senior. It is a real pattern.
So you will blame, as usual, the party left. Well, you hand the WH to a fascist, I will blame you and your fairly conservative right wing party. The fact that it is not conservative enough for conservadems though, is telling.
SFnomad
(3,473 posts)your sayso isn't enough to convince me.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)I could tell you the sun is out and we have May haze and you will not believe it. But I will blame you and your party for handing the WH to a fascist. I am just getting ahead of you blaming everybody but yourselves. And this time, it is not a normal election
So there you have it. I will hold you personally responsible. Is that clear now?
SFnomad
(3,473 posts)My believe is that the evidence doesn't exist.
I guess we have to share being personally responsible together. I hope you like popcorn and sweet tea.
SFnomad
(3,473 posts)Ok, well, you provided a claim that wasn't generally out there as far as I know and you're not backing it up ... so, that's that. I stand by my comment, I don't believe your premise. Buh-bye.
I didn't make any claim. Nadin had previously told me that I was personally responsible, just was welcoming you to the team of "nadin is now holding us both personally responsible" and offering tea and popcorn.
SFnomad
(3,473 posts)change.
Ive done the same thing sometimes. What should we tackle next with our newfound powers? I vote for ending hunger, should be no problem for such as us who weld such godlike powers.
SFnomad
(3,473 posts)How about everybody can get off an hour early Friday and first round is free!!!!
Lets do it!!.
Eko
(7,318 posts)personally responsible, now you take away my greatest achievement and life and give it to someone else? AGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Eko
(7,318 posts)Now I have to share it with another, are there others you haven't told me about?
QC
(26,371 posts)of Florida Democrats voted for Bush.
It's perfectly plausible. Ever been to Florida? A lot of Democrats here are essentially Republicans, kinda like many recent arrivals here at DU.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)I can provide all proof, they will not believe it. It is cognitive dissonance
Rex
(65,616 posts)Those here that avoid facts, I avoid. I've learned over the years that they are here to push a certain falsehood.
Rex
(65,616 posts)NOT that 250,000 Dems voted for Bush...I don't even talk to people that push the Nader narrative, they obviously have an agenda.
QC
(26,371 posts)time after time.
Not supposed to talk about that.
We must talk about other things, never that or the BFEE.
WhiteTara
(29,718 posts)Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Gore won the most votes. That's no longer in dispute. Election fraud by the Republican party and a perfidous supreme cout handed Florida to the Republican who did not garner the most votes.
"Ralph Nader" is what right-winger teabagger semicrats shout to try to blame the left for what their fellow right-wingers did. Nothing else.
SFnomad
(3,473 posts)with their election fraud ... Gore would have won by too many.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)This idea of your hinges on the assumption that all of Nader's voters would have gone to Gore if only Nader weren't in the race. Couple problems with that.
Primary problem was that Nader's voters were Nader voters from start to finish. His polling fluctuated very little relative to Gore or Bush. When Gore spiked after the convention, Bush dropped. Nader's numbers didn't move. When Bush spiked in October, Gore dropped, and Nader's numbers didn't move.
Know who the bulk of Nader supporters voted for in 1996? "Clinton!" you jump up to say but... Nope. Perot. Remember him, little tiny Texan with big ears?
Moreover, Nader's numbers in Florida 2000 are not divergent from the sorts of numbers garnered by third-party candidates before and after him. The only difference is that he condensed those numbers around himself, where they're usually spread around a cloud of candidates.
Basically put, Nader did not "siphon" votes from anyone, the bulk of his support came from people who regularly and consistently spurn both parties, and his big contribution to Florida 2000 was narrowing the third-party field. He caught the tailwinds of an active third party movement Perot got started in 92 and 96, and nothing more.
If you really, really, truly, deeply want to blame someone besides Republicans for Republicans committing election fraud, then you need to point your finger at Democrats. Whether the 300,000 Florida ship-jumpers who voted Republican (20% nationwide), or Gore with his poor campaigning and refusal to contest Florida isn't really of import. Democrats have more impact on the results that Democratic candidates get than third-party also-rans. If you can't fucking accept that the Republicans cheated, then accept that the Democrats ran poorly.
SFnomad
(3,473 posts)To believe that all of Nader's voters would not have voted is arrogant. Some would have gone to Gore, others would have gone to Bush and others wouldn't have voted at all ... the polling that was done showed that the net gain by Gore would have been enough that Harris and Jeb wouldn't have been able to steal it. Gore's lead would have been enough.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)You're arguing that voters that "should have" gone for Gore went for Nader instead, and that had Nader not been there, those voters would have gone to Gore. That is exactly your "siphoning" argument.
As I have showed you, Nader's voters were not "siphoned" from Gore. They were people who were already going to vote outside the two major parties.. Take Nader out and they would have gone for Buchanan. Or Brown. Or Hagelin. Or Moorehead. Or Phillips. Or McReynolds. Or Harris. Or maybe they would have written in "Daffy Duck."
These were not "Gore Voters" behind Nader, SFnomad. They were Nader voters. Nader did not "siphon" off of Gore, he consolidated third-party and independent voters who were going to vote against Democrats and Republicans anyway. if you're going to bitch about them not voting for Gore, then you might as well bitch about Republicans not voting for Gore as well. It makes as much sense.
Speaking of Republicans, the only candidate who siphoned of of Gore was George Walker Bush, as myself and a few other posters have pointed out to you.
SFnomad
(3,473 posts)with you.
There were polls done and some Nader voters would have voted for Gore if Nader was not on the ballot ... some would have voted for Bush ... some would not have voted at all. Gore would have gotten a net gain. Harris and Jeb would not have been able to steal the election like they did.
merrily
(45,251 posts)okieinpain
(9,397 posts)Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)Buzz cook
(2,472 posts)First ore ran a campaign good enough to win, just not good enough to not be stolen.
It is a media talking point that Gore disavowed Clinton and as such it was another media lie. Gore was pilloried in the media for not disavowing Clinton enough and for disavowing Clinton too much.
At the time of the recount Gore did npt have standing to recount the entire state. It wasn't until the Florida Supreme Court decided on a recount that a full state recount became a possibility.
The Supreme Court stopped all recounts not just Gores.
Much of what we on the left have internalized about election 2000 is wrong.
I'd suggest reading the Dailyhowler
http://howhegotthere.blogspot.com/
Tarc
(10,476 posts)Because of this alleged widespread fraud?
I'll wait.
J_J_
(1,213 posts)He was at the 2004 hearing on the stolen election in Ohio and told everyone to let it go that "Bush won"
I knew this was going to happen but everyone just got pissed off when I mentioned it so I let it go.
Tarc
(10,476 posts)I believe if sound evidence was placed before Sanders' legal, he would sic them on that state in a heartbeat. It would seem that the "evidence" gathered by random Sandersfan youtubers and such was no doubt looked at, but likely dismissed as non-credible.
J_J_
(1,213 posts)You people seem to think that Bernie supporters will just follow leaders as if we have no minds of our own.
WE are different than authority minded Hillary supporters...sorry....
Tarc
(10,476 posts)as opposed to random-dude-on-twitter/DU/blog, is the point.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)You are different from Hillary's supporters. The first on a very long list...your candidate has lost the Democratic nomination.
If you want more, let me know.
Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)your "prediction" that he won't fight election fraud is absurd.....and merely a preemptive excuse for losing.
J_J_
(1,213 posts)you are happy with how little he has done?
Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)how I feel about his law suits or lack thereof is not at issue.
Dip Dodge Dive Divert....it's what BS supporters do...and you just did it, but making a ridiculous assumption as a reply.
The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)Watch Where to Invade Next.
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)The Second Bill of Rights, Franklin D Roosevelt
The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the Nation;
The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation;
The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living;
The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad;
The right of every family to a decent home;
The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health;
The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident and unemployment;
The right to a good education.
PS, valerief....Where To Invade Next is a must see! Thanks for posting...
gollygee
(22,336 posts)The talk was in three areas:
Voter disenfranchisement, and largely of people of color, which is still happening, and maybe even more since the voting rights act has been gutted.
A relationship between Diebold and the Republican leadership.
A close vote count in Florida, recounts, and the election finally being decided by the SCOTUS.
I don't think voter disenfranchisement affects Bernie more than Hillary. I don't think Hillary has a relationship with Diebold the way the Republicans did, and I don't think the SCOTUS is going to decide this one.
I definitely think there can be voter fraud, though I felt so strongly about it that I didn't think President Obama could win, and the fact that he did assuaged my fears to some extent.
I don't think Hillary is involved in any voter fraud.
Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)hidden in the blink of an eye. Why do some cling to hypocrisy so tightly ?
NorthCarolina
(11,197 posts)to taunt and disillusion Bernie supporters. Wouldn't it be a bit naive to assume than none would dare come to DU. If you look around there are a myriad of posters on this site with accounts sometimes several years old, but showing 99% of their posts in just the last few weeks. Not an insignificant number exhibit this same trait, and they all shill for Hillary. Coincidence? I doubt it.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)There is no evidence of this.
J_J_
(1,213 posts)And it is apparent that they were outsourced, choosing quantity over quality.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)That is a lie.
merrily
(45,251 posts)He didn't issue one about hiring them before this month but the earlier ones are no secret, either. They're kind of obvious.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)His press release said that Clinton supporters would start pushing back against online harassment.
merrily
(45,251 posts)it as it is? All the OP's we've been seeing of late are not "pushing back" on anything. They're attacking.
Online harassment? Yet another victim card.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Anonymous online attacks, from both sides of the political spectrum, have sought to spread lies and misleading narratives about Secretary Hillary Clinton. Hillarys supporters are more enthusiastic than Sen. Bernie Sanders supporters, yet oftentimes are discouraged from engaging online and are often afraid to voice their thoughts because of the fear of online harassment. Many of Hillary Clintons female supporters in particular have been subject to intense cyber-bullying and sexist attacks from swarms of anonymous attackers.
Among the many Hillary Clinton supporters attacked online, superdelegates have been subject to vicious attacks for supporting her. Even the director of MoveOn, which has endorsed Sen. Sanders, denounced this harassment.
In response to these attacks on supporters and superdelegates, Correct The Record is launching the Barrier Breakers 2016 digital task force. While Hillary Clinton fights to break down barriers and bring America together, the Barrier Breakers 2016 digital task force will serve as a resource for supporters looking for positive content and push-back to share with their online progressive communities, as well as thanking prominent supporters and committed superdelegates on social media.
http://correctrecord.org/barrier-breakers-2016-a-project-of-correct-the-record/
The above is an excerpt, full press release at link.
merrily
(45,251 posts)He who has eyes to see, let him see.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)If you do, I would definitely be open to hearing about it and adjusting my opinion accordingly.
merrily
(45,251 posts)other than circumstantial, but the circumstantial evidence is there for anyone who wants to see it.
A whole bunch of people join, return or activate long inactive accounts and start attacking Bernie and his supporters like there's no tomorrow after the Brock announcement, and that's just coincidence?
Are you suggesting they are NOT at DU, the largest Democratic site on the net? Come on, now, oberliner.
I honestly haven't studied the logistics of who is joining, returning, activating accounts at DU to really be able to provide any solid insights on that front.
My belief is that the people who post here are doing so expressing their own actual points of view.
merrily
(45,251 posts)Someone who worked for the DNC for years told me the DNC pays for posters and so does every politician. And we know from news stories that government has people posting. And that is aside from the million dollars' worth Brock recently owned up to.
I can think of no reason why DU would be singled out as a "no paid poster" site. To the contrary, I think there is every reason to assume they are here.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)It seems like those sites are in another league from DU.
merrily
(45,251 posts)know about the relevant parts of reddit.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)I could be completely naive about the whole thing. I don't know.
merrily
(45,251 posts)any Ops, let alone about 20 provocative Op's a day.
My memory could be glossing over things, but I think I posted mostly LOL at intentional humor by posters and +1. The new crop jumped into one hostile OP after another and started racking up hides PDQ as well.
I just don't see one reason the largest Democratic forum on the internet would be the one place free of paid posters, Democratic and Republican. However, the Republican trolls tend to get caught faster, though some manage to stay under the radar.
People say they think those criticizing Hillary and/or Obama from the left are the same as Republicans. Those of us on the left don't see much difference among those espousing rightist policies, no matter which letter they put after their names. One side judges based on who gets criticized, regardless of what the criticism is, the other side judges based on policies.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)If you want to read the actual press release, I've posted it in reply above.
The LA Times article confirms that the initiative is in response to attacks from anti-Hillary folks.
merrily
(45,251 posts)From the LA Times link: "In effect, the effort aims to spend a large sum of money to increase the amount of trolling that already exists online."
onehandle
(51,122 posts)Enjoy the last two weeks of this shit here.
The end is nigh.
Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)be one of those "So what are Hillary supporters going to do to woo Sanders supporters ?" Needless to say, these people have issues.
Renew Deal
(81,863 posts)JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)should matter to anyone who wants the nominated Democrat to win. In the past our nominee has been fucked over and apathy and lack of Party organization around the vote itself contributed to that.
The nomination process is just the preface. The GE is the real deal. We've been cheated in the GE in the past and we should not be content to allow that again.
Unless of course your theory is that Trump would never cheat.....then it's all good. No need to look at the process at all. We can just trust. Like we did with George W Bush. That worked out great after all.....
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)OPs suggesting otherwise, like this one, are ridiculous nonsense.
wyldwolf
(43,867 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)bobthedrummer
(26,083 posts)Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)This helps to explain why they feel that blood sucking insurance companies have to take billions of our healthcare dollars per year, and why they are OK with our involvement in Iraq, Syria, Libya, Honduras. So I'm not sure that election theft is a big deal to them compared to, say, Bernie's conscientious objection to the Viet nam war. Their vantage point on what is important is different than the other half of du.
firebrand80
(2,760 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)felix_numinous
(5,198 posts)that is the core principle of HRC's defense. That is completely real.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)bkkyosemite
(5,792 posts)Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)On Tue May 31, 2016, 11:21 AM an alert was sent on the following post:
Democratic Underground was founded after the stolen election in 2000
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512093446
REASON FOR ALERT
This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate.
ALERTER'S COMMENTS
There is no evidence of election fraud by the Clinton campaign this cycle. This post is intentionally disruptive.
You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Tue May 31, 2016, 11:27 AM, and the Jury voted 3-4 to LEAVE IT.
Juror #1 voted to HIDE IT
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Juror #2 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: The "offending" post does not accuse any particular party of election fraud. I think it's silly to hide a post because some people might infer things not clearly implied.
Juror #3 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: Inflamatory post making false claims about our nominee should not be allowed.
Juror #4 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
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Explanation: Although I think the intention here is to disrupt, this one just doesn't rise to the level of hide-worthy.
Juror #7 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: "no evidence" does not mean we hide this. Sorry.
MadDAsHell
(2,067 posts)I don't think that's the case. I think the anger from the stolen 2000 election was used to build a user base, but I think it's fairly clear from the direction DU went once there was a (D) in the White House that most progressive issues aren't actually relevant or important to the Admins or a majority of the users.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)fraud perpetrated by Clinton in order to steal the primary.
It's nonsense.
Dem2
(8,168 posts)Looks like that was pulled directly from your nether regions.
MyNameGoesHere
(7,638 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)My vote really does not count. But I grew up in Mexico. We still pretended to vote. And by the way, from talking to many activists locally, a few election integrity advocates, they say the same thing
We need overwhelming numbers to overcome the systemic fraud. So on June 7 I will waste an hou if my time pretending to vote. Hopefully we will overcome the torta effect on Prop I.
themaguffin
(3,826 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)Carolina
(6,960 posts)after the Supreme Court's December decision led to coup 2000!
Yet now I do not recognize this place. How so many can support someone who supported Bush's IWR, who promoted disastrous regime change in Honduras/Libya/Syria, who's an MIC corporatist manipulating power for money (arms deals as SoS led to Clinton Foundation donations), who's owned and beholden to Goldman-Sachs, Big Pharma, the blood-sucking Health Insurance behemoths, and the the earth destroying fossil fuel and fracking industries, who lies like Bush... is beyond me
Hydra
(14,459 posts)Scary, isn't it?
Dem2
(8,168 posts)I guess you're just trying to start fights
Turin_C3PO
(14,004 posts)And it's almost always perpetrated by the Republicans. Hillary Clinton's campaign has not engaged in systemic fraud. One of the examples (Arizona) is a rethug state so any irregularities there are put to disenfranchise Democrats, regardless if they're a Sanders or Clinton supporter.
tandem5
(2,072 posts)AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)She ran against Obama like a Republican, and is doing it again. Voter suppression is perpetrated by those that can't win on their ideas and record.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)without a shred of evidence. It's a myth told by people unable to accept that people honestly disagree with them, and who refuse to respect the democratic process when they dislike the result.
AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)and exit polling
ladjf
(17,320 posts)discussion board. I believe that Skinner has been running this board long enough to know how to keep it going. (Unless some other entity purchases the board for the sole purpose of destroying it.)
NanceGreggs
(27,815 posts)... wants to steal an election by convincing super-delegates to ignore the will of the people and hand him the nomination.
JTFrog
(14,274 posts)Yet the Hillary haters keep on pushing shit like Judicial Watch and Breitbart here. Just to bash Democrats.
Love your selective outrage though.
robbedvoter
(28,290 posts)Shame on you! It was as ugly as the sea of white faces bused to Oakland, singing "We shall overcame" You are trivializing things you don't even begin understand. Even your candidate conceded lately "it wasn't rigged". But proceed, please! Discredit everything!