Manufacturing the Vast Left Wing Conspiracy

By BJ

Polls will start closing in less than 24 hours, and barring Supreme (Court) intervention, Barack Obama will be named the victor a few short hours later.  But to follow up on Cernig’s post below, the right is most certainly not looking to take defeat lightly.  Rather, they are already working towards a narrative as to how the election was “stolen” from them.

WHETHER or not Barack Obama wins election tomorrow, his campaign has exposed some gaping weaknesses in the electoral process

All too true, and Jay and Libby have listed many of the problems right here; voter suppression and purges, unverifiable electronic voting machines which just happen to switch votes only one way, all serious issues, but of course not the one's the right is interested in.

On the electoral side, we've seen allegations of massive voter fraud, often backed up by actual arrests and investigations. The FBI has opened an investigation into the Obama-friendly group ACORN, which has been associated with fraudulent registrations and other misconduct in many jurisdictions.

Yep.  Be prepared to hear a whole lot more about ACORN from the right wing noise machine starting Wednesday night.  Politico writer John Fund has went through the trouble to create a passably respectable argument of the ACORN allegations, and I have little doubt such stories are going to become far more common in the coming months and years

Of course, as has been pointed out before, there is no evidence that fraudulent registrations actually lead to fraudulent votes of any magnitude, but as we've seen all too often over the years, such things as "facts" and "evidence" are no deterence to the true beleivers.

So after eight years of telling Democrats to, "jus get over it", regarding Florida in 2000, the Republican base is preparing their own storyline of a stolen election to nurse their hatred on.  In the meantime, the real problems with voting in America are staring people in the face will probably continue to be ignored.

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