The only poll that matters...
Published Tue, Nov 14 2006 3:49 PM
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From Iowa Voice comes this interesting post:
What ever happened to losing and then graciously accepting defeat? Oh, that's right....Algore killed that notion in his botched attempt at the Presidency in 2000. Well, we have another Democrat who's threatening to go to court because, dammit, all of those people who didn't vote for him are idiots!
Clint Curtis, Democratic Party Candidate for Florida's 24th Congressional District, announced that he will not concede defeat in his race to unseat Rep. Tom Feeney (news, bio, voting record) "until every vote is actually counted." He is considering mounting a legal challenge to the election results.
"In this election, the results did not match the Zogby pre- election poll, our internal VoteNow2006.net polling, or our exit polling," Curtis said. "These anomalies need to be investigated and cleared up, not just in my race but for every district where the count just doesn't add up." Curtis says he has informed the Supervisor of Elections office in all four counties in FL-24 that he is considering a challenge.
Curtis continued, "The right to vote and to have that vote counted accurately is the very foundation of our democracy, and I owe it to the voters in my district and the state of Florida to continue to push for accurate, honest elections.
He's relying on POLLS? bwa-hahahahahahahahahaha!!!! Excuse me while I wipe the tears of laughter from my eyes.
Has anyone else noticed that it's usually the party of the trial lawyers that challenges elections in the courts? Before the election we were hearing about how the Democrats were prepared to go to court to challenge the elections, alleging voter fraud, machine irregularities, and even voter intimidation. Democrats were saying that they would challenge any results they didn't like, all the while downplaying allegations of fraud from their own supporters, such as ACORN.
After the election did the Republicans go to court to challenge results they didn't like? Oh no, they didn't do that. Yes, there were some irregularities, but, on the whole, the Republicans faced up to the fact that the voters had spoken.
Do you remember after the 2004 elections the reports of psychiatrists and psychologists in Florida having group therapy sessions for Democrats that were suffering from Post Election Stress Trauma? After the 2006 mid-term elections I don't think we heard too much about that, although I do recall reading one article about how Republicans could do with some grief counseling. By and large though, I don't recall the need for group therapy for Republicans.
I have news for Clint Curtis. The only political poll that matters is the one held by the elections office on election day. You know the poll I'm talking about. It's called the general election.
Zogby's pre-election polls aren't binding on the public. Your internal VoteNow2006.net polling isn't binding on the public either, and it's more than likely an unscientific poll based on voluntary participation rather than a true poll.
Exit polling isn't binding on the public either. Go ahead and challenge though. Go ahead and make yourself the laughing stock of the country, because you can't accept that non-binding polls disagreed with the election results. Go ahead and prove to the world that when it comes to accepting election defeat Democrats react like spoiled children.
Let's face it Clint, you lost by four percentage points, or somewhere on the order of 30,000 to 40,000 votes.
Even Washington's King County can't make up for a shortfall of votes that large.
Update: The actual margin of victory for Tom Feeney was 33,889 votes. Tom Feeney had 123,570 votes, or 57.9% of the vote. Clint Curtis had 89,681 votes, or 42.1% of the vote.
This isn't the first time Clint Curtis has been involved in an election challenge. He testified before congress about election fraud in Ohio in 2004. He also claimed to have worked on an election fraud demo for Tom Feeney back in 2000 while working for Yang Enterprises. The trouble is, his fellow employees at the time deny that it ever took place.
There's an extensive article quite favorable to Clint Curtis on Wikipedia. Interestingly enough, the article sites Clint Curtis's own works, and several blogs as authorities. Blogger Brad Friedman's blog is cited four times. The article is categorized in NPOV Disputes and Articles with unsourced statements.
It seems to me that Clint Curtis is suffering from delusions of adequacy. He may just be trying to perpetrate his own fraud on Florida voters.
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