Voter fraud
10-23-2012, 01:03 AM
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Voter fraud
Real meaningful voter fraud is not going to come from having people without photo Id’s voting
Romney family buys voting machines through Bain Capital investment
Romney family buys voting machines through Bain Capital investment
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10-24-2012, 12:59 PM
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They should probably buy these ones: Guilford Co. voters say ballot cast for Romney came up Obama on machine | MyFOX8.com
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10-24-2012, 01:25 PM
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Real meaningful voter fraud is not going to come from having people without photo Id’s voting
Romney family buys voting machines through Bain Capital investment
Romney family buys voting machines through Bain Capital investment
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10-24-2012, 03:25 PM
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Do you know what a blind trust is and how it is supposed to operate? That's almost like saying I control Apple because I own a big chunk of a mutual fund that pays me tens of thousands in dividends and that mutual fund happens to be a huge institutional shareholder of AAPL.
I'm not saying there can't be malfeasance or that Romney doesn't still have a large stake in Bain one way or the other, but using dividends paid by a blind trust to make that claim does not make sense to me. This is why Romney is better off not releasing more financial information than he is required... People won't understand it and they will twist it wildly out of context.
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10-24-2012, 03:45 PM
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Where did you get that ~$23.4 million annualized Bain income number from?
Do you know what a blind trust is and how it is supposed to operate? That's almost like saying I control Apple because I own a big chunk of a mutual fund that pays me tens of thousands in dividends and that mutual fund happens to be a huge institutional shareholder of AAPL.
I'm not saying there can't be malfeasance or that Romney doesn't still have a large stake in Bain one way or the other, but using dividends paid by a blind trust to make that claim does not make sense to me. This is why Romney is better off not releasing more financial information than he is required... People won't understand it and they will twist it wildly out of context.
Do you know what a blind trust is and how it is supposed to operate? That's almost like saying I control Apple because I own a big chunk of a mutual fund that pays me tens of thousands in dividends and that mutual fund happens to be a huge institutional shareholder of AAPL.
I'm not saying there can't be malfeasance or that Romney doesn't still have a large stake in Bain one way or the other, but using dividends paid by a blind trust to make that claim does not make sense to me. This is why Romney is better off not releasing more financial information than he is required... People won't understand it and they will twist it wildly out of context.
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10-24-2012, 03:56 PM
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His defense is it is not me that is evil it is my money and money is never evil.
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10-24-2012, 04:32 PM
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Real meaningful voter fraud is not going to come from having people without photo Id’s voting
Romney family buys voting machines through Bain Capital investment
Romney family buys voting machines through Bain Capital investment
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10-24-2012, 05:19 PM
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I'm not sure how this constitutes voter fraud.
There's a potential conflict of interest, certainly.
But it's quite a stretch to say that because Bain Capital (a company which Romney co-founded and has not been actively involved with in many years) has chosen to invest in partial ownership of this company among the thousands of companies in which it invests, that we're suddenly headed towards Man of the Year.
The charts presented by "The Money Party" in the above-linked PDF remind me a great deal of all of the charts which countless "trading advisers" offer up as proof that their proprietary analysis strategy will allow you to predict market movements. Such charts prove only that, given a large enough body of historical data, it is possibly to identify trends which prove just about any theory imaginable.
In other words, if I look hard enough, I can probably find some way to manipulate data in order to support a claim that the stock of companies in some random industry tends to trade downwards during the second week following the introduction of a new supporting character in the TV series "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic."
There's a potential conflict of interest, certainly.
But it's quite a stretch to say that because Bain Capital (a company which Romney co-founded and has not been actively involved with in many years) has chosen to invest in partial ownership of this company among the thousands of companies in which it invests, that we're suddenly headed towards Man of the Year.
The charts presented by "The Money Party" in the above-linked PDF remind me a great deal of all of the charts which countless "trading advisers" offer up as proof that their proprietary analysis strategy will allow you to predict market movements. Such charts prove only that, given a large enough body of historical data, it is possibly to identify trends which prove just about any theory imaginable.
In other words, if I look hard enough, I can probably find some way to manipulate data in order to support a claim that the stock of companies in some random industry tends to trade downwards during the second week following the introduction of a new supporting character in the TV series "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic."
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10-29-2012, 12:57 PM
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If you were truly a fiscal conservative, I would think you'd spend more time supporting Gary Johnson and less time worrying about what Democrats are and aren't doing.
You've been herded.
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