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2016 Postmortem

LisaM

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14. Eric Holder worked long and hard on this. The goalposts changed.

Reply to McCamy Taylor (Original post)

Thu Dec 8, 2016, 04:20 PM

Dec 2016

When they overturned the Voting Rights Act, everything changed. Everything. We are now playing whack-a-mole with suppression all over the place.

But Eric Holder cared very deeply about this and is still working on it. You can't do it at a national level. It's unfortunate, and it's unfair. And for all everyone is acting now as if W was better than Trump - he wasn't. He GAVE us Trump with the Supreme Court judges he picked, some of the worst of all time.

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We Went Wrong When We Did Not Prosecute Election Fraud [View all] McCamy Taylor Dec 2016 OP

Yep, and when we treated Wikileaks like an actual news source instead of Russian infiltration. nt LaydeeBug Dec 2016 #1

Definitely true recently and very possibly infiltration all along. gordianot Dec 2016 #15

We have a long road ahead of us. lancelyons Dec 2016 #2

This. CrispyQ Dec 2016 #22

Assuming we could find evidence. HassleCat Dec 2016 #3

Also when we didn't prosecute the Bush war criminals and banksters nt doc03 Dec 2016 #4

No punishment. No deterrence. Baitball Blogger Dec 2016 #6

Yes, and we should have prosecuted . . FairWinds Dec 2016 #12

Good point! red dog 1 Dec 2016 #16

Yep. Baitball Blogger Dec 2016 #5

And when the primaries were fucked up like in Arizona it was largely crickets. NWCorona Dec 2016 #7

+1, and they did it little by little since 2004 uponit7771 Dec 2016 #8

What Election Fraud are you thinking of? brooklynite Dec 2016 #9

brooklynite..... SCantiGOP Dec 2016 #11

How about "Crosscheck"? red dog 1 Dec 2016 #17

Throwing legitimate voters off the rolls, Crunchy Frog Dec 2016 #20

yeah, its the votes that dont get counted that count the most. mopinko Dec 2016 #21

Agreed! Liberal In Red State Dec 2016 #10

I loved Obama for the most part. lark Dec 2016 #13

plus 1 red dog 1 Dec 2016 #18

Eric Holder worked long and hard on this. The goalposts changed. LisaM Dec 2016 #14

K&R...Thanks for posting red dog 1 Dec 2016 #19

Yet during the campaign, both parties lauded the integrity of the US electoral system. CrispyQ Dec 2016 #23

If he did there'd be a catchy meme twisting it into something to whine about. ucrdem Dec 2016 #24