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New Cartoon Perfectly Answers the Question: “Why Are You Planning to Grant Amnesty to Millions of Illegals?”

By Steve Straub - 127 Comments · In political cartoon



We all know that voter fraud is a huge problem, Democrat denials notwithstanding. But how bad is it?
We now have evidence from the Cooperative Congressional Election Study (CCES) that non-citizens have been voting. What even more worrying is that their votes may have already tipped the election in several tight races, including the election of a U.S. Senator.



Via The Washington Post:

Our data comes from the Cooperative Congressional Election Study (CCES). Its large number of observations (32,800 in 2008 and 55,400 in 2010) provide sufficient samples of the non-immigrant sub-population, with 339 non-citizen respondents in 2008 and 489 in 2010. For the 2008 CCES, we also attempted to match respondents to voter files so that we could verify whether they actually voted.
How many non-citizens participate in U.S. elections? More than 14 percent of non-citizens in both the 2008 and 2010 samples indicated that they were registered to vote. Furthermore, some of these non-citizens voted. Our best guess, based upon extrapolations from the portion of the sample with a verified vote, is that 6.4 percent of non-citizens voted in 2008 and 2.2 percent of non-citizens voted in 2010.

Because non-citizens tended to favor Democrats (Obama won more than 80 percent of the votes of non-citizens in the 2008 CCES sample), we find that this participation was large enough to plausibly account for Democratic victories in a few close elections. Non-citizen votes could have given Senate Democrats the pivotal 60th vote needed to overcome filibusters in order to pass health-care reform and other Obama administration priorities in the 111th Congress. Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) won election in 2008 with a victory margin of 312 votes. Votes cast by just 0.65 percent of Minnesota non-citizens could account for this margin. It is also possible that non-citizen votes were responsible for Obama’s 2008 victory in North Carolina. Obama won the state by 14,177 votes, so a turnout by 5.1 percent of North Carolina’s adult non-citizens would have provided this victory margin.

Hot Air has more:

Obama winning a state illegally in a presidential election is bad but will be dismissed on grounds that it didn’t affect the overall result. Flip North Carolina to McCain’s column and it’s still a giant blowout.
Franken winning a Minnesota seat illegally is a different ballgame. He was the 60th vote for ObamaCare. Replace him in the Senate with Norm Coleman and the law probably never passes. The authors are arguing overtly that health-care reform was made possible only by illegal votes.

There are a bunch of races this year that could end up with whisper-thin margins of victory as well — Perdue versus Nunn in Georgia, Cassidy versus Landrieu in Louisiana, Tillis versus Hagan in North Carolina, even Gardner versus Udall in Colorado.

If Democrats eke out victories in a few of those by a few thousand or even a few hundred votes, why would you believe after reading this study that those victories were fairly earned? And remember, as a Twitter pal points out, the numbers in the study are based on non-citizens who admitted to voting when asked. How many voted and were smart enough not to cop to it?

What do you think about the fact that illegals are voting in such numbers that they may have actually decided close elections in several states? Should ID always be required before casting a vote?

H/T Young Conservatives

http://www.thefederalistpapers.org/p...ns-of-illegals

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That's gotta sting...




How Bad Was Election Night For Democrats? Obama's Home State Elects A Republican Governor
Not even Chicago was able to save them.
ijreview.com|By Kevin Boyd

How Bad Was Election Night For Democrats? Obama’s Home State Elects A Republican Governor

By Kevin Boyd (16 hours ago) | Editor's Choice, Elections, Nation



Getty - John Gress

In one of the shocking upsets of the 2014 elections, Republican businessman Bruce Rauner defeated Illinois Governor Pat Quinn. As of this writing, Bruce Rauner defeated Gov. Quinn 50.7% to 45.9%.


Image credit: Politico

With Illinois dealing with high taxes, high debt levels, and a stagnant economy, many Illinois voters wanted change from the status quo of one-party rule in their state’s government. As an indication of how fed up voters of Illinois were, the left-leaning Chicago Sun Times gave Bruce Rauner their endorsement for governor.
While it was still a long, close race, in the end Rauner’s message of change was enough to convince Illinois voters to look past party affiliations and vote for him.
Last night, Pat Quinn refused to concede his defeat.

Chicago CP @Chicago_CP Follow Pat Quinn Refuses to Concede: Governor Pat Quinn said Tuesday night that he wouldn't concede the election to Bruce… http://dlvr.it/7QVCjd
1:05 AM - 5 Nov 2014 Chicago, IL, United States

One hopes that this result is accepted by all candidates and Illinoisans.

http://www.ijreview.com/2014/11/1977...ican-governor/

The Unbelievable Front Page Of This Newspaper Will Have Obama’s White House Up in Arms

...in the turbulent wake of Tuesday's election results...

Norvell Rose — November 5, 2014



If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the morning-after front page of the New York Post may well be worth many thousand reactions, both positive and negative, depending upon one’s political viewpoint.



In the wake of the Republican wave elections that saw control of the Senate swing decisively toward the GOP, historic House elections that solidified the Republicans’ dominance of the lower chamber, and stunning losses for a number of Democrat governors and would-be governors in states such as Texas, Wisconsin, Massachusetts, Maryland and Florida — in the turbulent wake of Tuesday’s election results, the reaction on a handful of left-leaning websites was quite telling.
At MSNBC.com, there was a clear attempt to spin the election outcome as a potential problem for the victorious GOP, presumably because the public might not like what now happens in Washington.
MSNBC is apparently presuming that President Obama will defiantly confront the GOP Congress rather than trying to be conciliatory.

Huffingtonpost.com painted the election outcome in starkly disappointing terms for Democrats.


Dailykos.com presented readers with a short, but not so sweet, one-word assessment.



Over at slate.com, another promoter of progressive politics, the home page suggested that the real reason Republicans swept to victory was because they tricked the voters by pretending to be Democrats.


Motherjones.com depicted the massive GOP wave in graphic colors, while the post-election analysis played on a favorite theme of Democrats when they lose — it wasn’t about content of the liberal argument as much as the packaging, the marketing, the messaging.



The views expressed in this opinion article are solely those of their author and are not necessarily either shared or endorsed by WesternJournalism.com.



http://www.westernjournalism.com/unb...te-house-arms/

The Emperor has no clothes

'Bama is already redefining the November 4 thumping as being a call for breaking the logjam in Washington, D.C. Not a rejection of him or of his policies, just a big "No' on that logjam. Now if those mean old Republicans won't cooperate with him, to break the logjam, he'll blame everything on them.

Repubs would be wise to forget any conciliatory message, and bang the drum for "You've been rejected." Right now the media is all about the thumping. But I'm guessing that the fanboy/fangirl media will pick up on the logjam message.

As we used to say back in the day, If you can't kick a man when he's down, when can you kick him. If Repubs don't put sell out Demos the run, the Great Speechmaker will redefine the election results.
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FINALLY…The REAL Reason Democrats Got a Boot Up the Backside In the Midterms [VIDEO]

Michael Cantrell — November 7, 2014

Ever since the Democrats got thoroughly pounded into the ground during Tuesday night’s midterm elections, liberal pundits and politicians have been scratching their heads trying to figure out how such a thing could’ve possibly happened in “Obama’s America.”
Some of have decided to throw the President, their favorite cuddly progressive, under the proverbial bus, blaming him for their ultimate political ruin. A few actually think he may have purposefully destroyed their campaign to get back at them for hurting his feelings after attempting to put a little distance between themselves and the worst president in history.
Others resorted to typical liberal behavior and started calling voters racists, stoners, blah, blah, blah. You get the picture.
Well, my dear liberal friends, you can put your weary minds at ease, because the answer to the question that you’ve been pondering for the last several days is finally here.

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE VIDEO COURTESY OF THE WASHINGTON FREE BEACON



Yeah, I’d say that about sums it up.
Much of the ridiculously sloppy rhetoric Democrats polluted the air with in the video above is demonstrative of the kind of performance we’ve already experienced from President Obama.
These knuckleheads actually helped the GOP take over the Senate by confirming the American people’s worst fears. If they were elected into office, the same incompetence that plagues the Obama administration was going to be poured out across every state in the land.
It’s clear by the landslide Republican victory that no one wanted to see that horror show play out.
Perhaps Democrats will watch this video and learn from their mistakes. I know, I know. That requires a bit of wisdom–or applied knowledge as I like to say–and that’s not something liberals are known for, but hey, if the election results teach us anything, it’s that miracles can happen.

http://joeforamerica.com/2014/11/fin...idterms-video/