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Wrong, Bob. America has never seen the level of institutionalized election corruption that we saw from the Democrats in 2020, much of it orchestrated by weakening election intergrity standards in the series of Marc Elias lawsuits.

In North Carolina, the one incident you can point to for a Reputlican is the ballot harvesting by Monroe Dallas in Bladen County in 2018. Dallas was a longtime operative for Democrat ballot harvesting who in one election went to work for a Republican congressional candidate. The Democrats then used that to force a rerun of that election. Most of the liberal media kept their blinders on and only reported on his activities in 2018. One media outlet, however, WBTV in Charlotte assigned an objective investigative journalist to the issue, and his reports that they broadcast covered the whole scope of what was going on in southeastern NC, including that Democrats were also running a ballot harvesting operation in Bladen County in 2018, and Democrats alone were running ballot harvesting operations in Robeson and Columbus counties. In fact, there was more ballot harvesting going on in Robeson County, all for the Democrats than total ballot harvesting in the other two counties combined. The Democrat controlled state Board of Elections swept everything the Democrats were doing in that election under the rug, but WBTV got the word out in public at least in their viewing area. Only 10-15% of the 2018 ballot harvesting in that Congressional race was for the Republican. The rest of it was for the Democrat, but most statewide media ignored that. Cudos to WBTV, one of the few honest media outlets in the state.

Ballot harvesting in southeastern NC also came up in the recount of the 2016 gubenatorial race. There was a write in candidate in one of those counties, and during the hand recount, it was noted that the write in candidate's name was written in the same distinctive handwriting and in a unique color of ink on a large number of ballots. Those ballots were also voted for all Democrats, including for governor, in the other races. This was a clear indication of ballot harvesting by Democrats in 2016 in the same part of the state.

In the later half of the last century, Republicans in North Carolina never had the sort of county level ruthless political machines like the Ponder machine in Madison County, the Sonny Boy Joyner machine in Northhampton County, the DCNA machine in Durham County, the Griffin machine in Martin County or other similar county level political machines. The DCNA machine stole a congressional race in the old 4th district in 1972 which I helped investigate, and it still does its dirty work today under a similar but different name.

I don't think you can ever cite a case of Republicans voting illegal aliens, but it seems a common practice of Democrats.

Commented: Saturday, July 6th, 2024 @ 4:36 pm By: Steven P. Rader

Just honest observations

Commented: Saturday, July 6th, 2024 @ 10:01 am By: Big Bob

This is excellent - thank you Diane Rufino

Commented: Saturday, July 6th, 2024 @ 7:32 am By: Mark Fleming

I've got to be honest; I'm highly concerned with the fact that Uncle Hood is seeding the idea of putting a community school in or around the industrial Park area.

If I were him, I'd rethink throwing that strategy out there. The White folks and the Black folks of that area are smelling some shenaniganry afoot and they don't like it, I can assure you. There's plenty of land elsewhere and money for serious renovation....they just don't want to give it up FOR those reasons.

Dr. Blinson has always been a voice of reason. The man has the patience of Job lol. He's liked by the Conservatives of all backgrounds

Commented: Friday, July 5th, 2024 @ 6:58 pm By: John Valley

Reaction to JB's interview. The man is old. However, his ideas and policy are solid and far better than anything that lying lunatic trump will ever produce.

Democrats have the right to ask Joe to step aside provided they have a replacement. Firing the coach with no idea who will replace him is a dumb idea. Trump is very beatable.

Commented: Friday, July 5th, 2024 @ 11:40 pm By: Big Bob

These attempts to vote illegal aliens have been going on for years and they are ramping up this year. There has been plenty of evidence of that since at least when they stole Bob Dornan's congressional seat a couple of decades ago. We need to impose very severe sentences on this criminal activity to discourage it as it is corrupting our elections.

Commented: Friday, July 5th, 2024 @ 6:25 pm By: borderhawk

No I'm not. People from all walks of life commit crimes.

Painting with a broad brush is disingenuous.

White men hate it when its done to them. Some white men dont mind doing it to others.

Commented: Friday, July 5th, 2024 @ 4:03 pm By: Big Bob

BTW -
How high do your home owners insurance rates have to get?
How hot does it have to get?

For you, what is the tipping point?

Commented: Friday, July 5th, 2024 @ 4:07 pm By: Big Bob

A former British colleague I had worked with in Europe who had held roles in the UK Conservative Party much of his life told me before the election that he expected this result. Rishi Sunak had lost the confidence of the party base and they had Reform nipping at their heels from the right. I see in the British newspapers that at the latest count, Reform had picked up a fifth seat.

This election was more a referendum on Rishi Sunak than anything else, and he was not very well liked even within his own party. I see Boris Johnson now has a plan to revive the Conservative Party, but its way forward is still uncertain until new leadership is selected.

This election has many similarities to John Major's race after he ousted Margaret Thatcher in a palace coup in the middle of her term, and then went down to resounding defeat in the next election. Rishi Sunak stabbed Boris Johnson in the back to take his job, and had the same result at the next general election. Both Major and Sunak were Tory "wets" (less conservative and more opportunistic) but their main reason to oust the sitting prime minister in both cases was personal ambition. Thatcher and Johnson were both small"c" Conservatives who had led their party to major victories, only to see themselves ousted, replaced by weak leaders, and the party go down to defeat the next election.

In Sunak's case, he particularly alienated the party base by the way he went about his power play. After stabbing Boris Johnson in the back and causing his ouster, the party had a two step process to choose a new prime minister. First parliament reduced the choices to two in a series of votes and then all party members cast a ballot between those two. Sunak was the top choice of the parliament caucus, but lost by a wide margin to Liz Truss among party members. Sunak then set about undermining Truss and bringing her down. Truss was another snall "c" Conservative. Sunak then managed to change the procedure to elimintate the party members voting on the replacement, so he won with only the parliament caucus. That created a lot of bitterness among party activists which has lingered since and made Reform more attractive.

Boris Johnson may be the Conservative Party's only hope of getting back on its feet. Johnson has also had an ability to work things out with Farage in the past. If the new leadership is another "wet" then look for the party to be replaced by the Reform Party.

Commented: Friday, July 5th, 2024 @ 4:03 pm By: Steven P. Rader

Laken Riley, Rachel Morin, and little 12-year old Jocelyn Nungaray are NOT "links", they are victims of illegal alien criminals, raped and murdered by illegal aliens from Venezuela and El Salvador, who should never have been in the country in the first place. And there are a lot more other Amricans you have been victims of rapes, murders, or other crimes by illegal aliens. It takes a really sick individual to dismiss what is being done to our country and our citizens through Biden's open borders.

Commented: Friday, July 5th, 2024 @ 1:24 pm By: borderhawk

Who cares, Eastern Elementary called, they want the diploma back!

Commented: Friday, July 5th, 2024 @ 10:21 am By: Big Bob

Conservatives got crushed.

Commented: Friday, July 5th, 2024 @ 10:18 am By: Big Bob