{"id":10885,"date":"2014-10-17T13:50:45","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T20:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=10885"},"modified":"2014-10-17T14:18:24","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T21:18:24","slug":"nightmare-scenario-dead-heat-and-dirty-tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10885","title":{"rendered":"Nightmare Scenario: &#8216;Dead Heat&#8217; and &#8216;Dirty Tricks&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We <i>really<\/i> should have taken some time off this past summer, cause it looks like we may not get a good break anytime soon. It may be a much busier November, December and even January than we&#8217;d like.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel Maddow highlights what we regard as our <i>personal<\/i> nightmare scenario: &#8220;Almost every legitimately contested, legitimately interesting race in the country &#8212; is <i>tied<\/i>, right now, with less than three weeks to go&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe src='http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/2E2eJC\/EmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_maddow_5last_141015' height='331' width='420' scrolling='no' border='no' ><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Ugh.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With this many top of the ticket races tied, turnout will be everything,&#8221; Maddow explains. &#8220;So now&#8217;s the part where we watch for the ways that people will try to stop voters from turning out or from having their votes counted, by hook or by crook. &#8230; Right now, big picture, three weeks out: this is a tie game. Close enough to be fascinating, but also close enough to be stolen&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Of course, with all due respect to Maddow, while &#8220;now&#8221; is certainly important, it is <i>not<\/i> the only time where we ought to &#8220;watch for the ways that people will try to stop voters from turning out or from having their votes counted.&#8221;  We ought to be doing that in the rest of the year and the year prior &#8212; outside of the <em>dead heat<\/em> of the election moment &#8212; when it&#8217;s a lot easier to do something about those who work to stop voters from turning out and to have votes counted (in a way that all voters can <i>know<\/i> they&#8217;ve been counted accurately). That, as you good readers know, is what <i>we<\/i> do, or at least try to, all year around, here at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.BradBlog.com\">The BRAD BLOG<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, it should also be noted that, in the video segment above, Maddow is <i>only<\/i> looking at the &#8220;dead heats&#8221; in the U.S. Senate and Governors races. There also about a gazillion other elections &#8212; U.S. House, state and local &#8212; all happening this year as well, and all of which matter as well. Not to mention the fact that <em>voting rights<\/em> for every single voter &#8212; whether or not any particular race is a dead heat or not &#8212; matters very much as well.<\/p>\n<p>In any event, once again&#8230;ugh.<\/p>\n<p><center><i><b>* * *<\/b><\/i><\/center><center><b>Please <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Donate\">help support The BRAD BLOG&#8217;s<\/a> fiercely independent, award-winning coverage of your electoral system &#8212; <i>now in our ELEVENTH YEAR!<\/i> &#8212;  as available from no other media outlet in the nation&#8230;<\/b><\/center><\/p>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-START--><\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f5f0e0; border:2px solid #6b5a2e; border-radius:6px; padding:10px 14px; text-align:center; font-family:Georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"display:block; margin:0 0 8px 0; color:#3a2e0e; font-size:0.95em; line-height:1.5;\"><strong>The BRAD BLOG<\/strong>, <em>The BradCast<\/em> and <em>Green News Report<\/em> are all 100% independent and 100% listener and reader supported!<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Donate\" style=\"display:inline-block; background:#6b5a2e; color:#ffffff; padding:6px 18px; border-radius:4px; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none; font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:0.9em;\">Please CLICK HERE to help support our work today!<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-END--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We really should have taken some time off this past summer, cause it looks like we may not get a good break anytime soon. It may be a much busier November, December and even January than we&#8217;d like. 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