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Philly Voting Trouble?

Barack Obama's campaign is hearing that there are problems with voting machines in Philly -- that machines are breaking down, and only one or two machines are working in some predominantly African-American precincts, reports NBC/NJ's Aswini Anburajan.

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Same ol, same ol!!!
Everyone asks, Why can't Obama win the big states?
It's becauce the "big states" are controlled by the status quo party bosses. They put too few voting machines in urban areas and any area friendly to Obama. The voting registration records are controlled by party bosses. OOPS!!! they lost the new registstations. OOPS!!! They send out false voting place notifications. OOPS!!
You didn't read the new fine print about party declaration. On and on. If he wins he will have overcome the Big State Machines. If he can do that he can also be a new kind of president and an effective one.

Same ol, same ol!!!
Everyone asks, Why can't Obama win the big states?
It's becauce the "big states" are controlled by the status quo party bosses. They put too few voting machines in urban areas and any area friendly to Obama. The voting registration records are controlled by party bosses. OOPS!!! they lost the new registstations. OOPS!!! They send out false voting place notifications. OOPS!!
You didn't read the new fine print about party declaration. On and on. If he wins he will have overcome the Big State Machines. If he can do that he can also be a new kind of president and an effective one.

What a surprise. Obama's must have constituency left out in the cold.

We've had four years to do something about the rigged elections, and.....almost nothing from those at the federal level. The states have done a thing or two, but isn't it remarkable that wherever the Diebold et al. machines are in place, Clinton has a surge, and wherever paper ballots are used Obama comes out ahead. I just wish that the Obama campaign, or at least the DNC, would take action instead of lying down and taking it, as did Kerry and Gore. What is with these politicians that they can't take on the Republican crime machine? Is it that the media would shred them? Is it that they are in denial? What?

At one point (before Obama came on shining and before Clinton showed her true colors), I begged the Clinton campaign to get serious about the fixed voting, only to realize later that the Republicans are actually working on her behalf, since she has so little chance against McCain. Republican complicity is about the only chance Clinton has, so of course she did nothing about it. But what about the Obama campaign? Are they that naive that they actually believe they can win on merit and popularity, in today's rigged elections?

We've had four years to do something about the rigged elections, and.....almost nothing from those at the federal level. The states have done a thing or two, but isn't it remarkable that wherever the Diebold et al. machines are in place, Clinton has a surge, and wherever paper ballots are used Obama comes out ahead. I just wish that the Obama campaign, or at least the DNC, would take action instead of lying down and taking it, as did Kerry and Gore. What is with these politicians that they can't take on the Republican crime machine? Is it that the media would shred them? Is it that they are in denial? What?

At one point (before Obama came on shining and before Clinton showed her true colors), I begged the Clinton campaign to get serious about the fixed voting, only to realize later that the Republicans are actually working on her behalf, since she has so little chance against McCain. Republican complicity is about the only chance Clinton has, so of course she did nothing about it. But what about the Obama campaign? Are they that naive that they actually believe they can win on merit and popularity, in today's rigged elections?