Off topic, sorry.

Anybody else wondering about Wisconsin's exit polls in the last election? Just read them on DU under elections.

http://electiondefenseal...liance.org/wisconsindata

Surprise , they were off , all leaned to red.

One paragraph of the WI exit-poll report that Molly linked to was especially interesting.

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Hello Brad,

Is that the newspaper excuse

De jure

. I think it is right up there with the classic

the dog ate my homework

.

There are Democrats in MS! Who knew?

From Democracy Now!:

In news from Mississippi, Johnny Dupree has become the first African American in modern history to win a major-party nomination for Mississippi state governor. Dupree, the mayor of Hattiesburg, won the Democratic gubernatorial runoff primary on Tuesday. Mississippi has not elected any African-American candidates to statewide office since the Reconstruction period. Dupree will face off against Republican Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant in November."

Democracy Now neglects to mention that this historic election will be conducted on 100% unverifiable touch screen DREs.

Interesting article, Cyndy Tyler.

Right-wing troll talk show host, Dale Jackson, announced, on-air, that "those who planned to vote for Democrat Laura Hall to wait until Wednesday to vote because of overcrowding at the polls. Hall lost the District 7 special election to Republican Paul Sanford."

Although Jackson also posted this announcement on WVNN's web site using the state's official seal, Niki Doyle of The Huntsville Times referred it as simply an "on-air prank."

Here, on planet earth, we call it GOP dirty tricks that are intended to fraudulently disenfranchise voters.

Koch Industries' "Americans for Prosperity" carried out similar dirty tricks entailing fraudulent absentee ballot mailings in advance of the recent WI Recall elections.

I'm disturbed, but not surprised, that the MS AG did not prosecute Jackson. I'm even more disturbed that so many of readers of The Huntsville Times found this "prank" amusing.

Is there no one in the Magnolia state left in government who desires democracy?

Ernie - FWIW, I believe that took place in Alabama, as opposed to Mississippi. Where, you'll recall, they have even less interest in democracy than they do in Mississippi. Just ask their former Gov. Don Siegelman, as I did, about his 2002 "election".

Duh, as in Huntsville, AL!

Wake up Ernie.

There's two reasons why I'll never move back to MS - the racism like the poll earlier this year that showed that 46% of MS Republicans STILL think that interracial marriage (like mine) should be illegal, and crap like the "it's God's will that we should stop people voting for liberals" stunt that you exposed in your article. But lest we forget, the conservatives are the REAL Americans, right? *sigh*