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Simple Matters of Cause and Effect
Several hours after polls closed, a conservative neighbor and Facebook friend posted a screen shot of Breitbart editor-in-chief Alex Marlow’s tweet, warning “As promising as tonight looks, DO NOT underestimate Democrats’ willingness and ability to cheat.”
These star spangled bulletheads are typically driving their screeds long on rhetoric and short on specifics, like evidence for and/or examples of the “cheating” they desperately wish they could blame for the failure to sell their cruel and muddled policy priorities on a sick and tired electorate.
Consider the contrast in strategies. Biden and the Democrats urged VBM (vote by mail) to deal with the pandemic while Trump went to war against VBM and urged his voters to vote in person on Election Day. Simple cause and effect.
In the congressional district where I live and serve as a Democratic precinct committeeperson, the first Sean Casten congressional campaign pushed VBM back in 2018. As a good soldier, I went along with it then and again this year. But I personally went “rogue” with my own plan to organize a voting party with like minded constituents on the first day of in-person early voting at our county fairgrounds, because I personally couldn’t wait to vote and it is always a good idea to maximize your franchise by not voting alone. I envisioned meeting up with maybe a dozen…