"Waaaaaaaaaah! You cheated!" (more Freeper Madness)

I decided to take a gander at the dying Free Republic today to see what the Whine Time Players have been up to. But I didn't get very far before I almost fell off my chair in laughter at one of their predictably idiotic proclamations.

Are you ready for it?

According to a Freak Rethuglic regular, the big, mean libs are rigging elections by counting friendly urban areas last. This user declared:

"One of the biggest problems we've encountered with Dems' trying to steal elections is the old tried and true method of releasing vote counts in large, urban areas last so as to 'discover' just the right amount of votes it takes to turn an election."

Projecting again, conservos?

What that user describes is exactly what Republicans have been doing for years. The only difference is that GOP vote counters in right-wing suburban areas release their vote totals last.

The first time I noticed this was in 1988. I was only in high school, but I could see it in plain sight. When DuPage County was the last to report in Illinois, and it provided Bush's whole margin of victory in that state, I didn't even need to have somebody tell me it was rigged. That was an instant red flag. (In fact, Illinois had already been called for Dukakis.)

For pity's sake, what county do you think prompted the recount in the Wisconsin Supreme Court election? Here's a hint: It's not Douglas County.

The Freepers' bogus claim that the Democrats count liberal urban areas last so they know how many votes to "discover" is a clear case of projection. They know the Republicans are counting suburbs last, but they want to preempt anybody who points it out - even though I'm not the only person who's blogged about it.

In many cases - such as that Wisconsin election - it's demonstrably true that right-wing suburban counties either report last or they find last-minute "errors" that change what's already counted. In other words, the Freeper person lied.

Who are they gonna blame for being caught projecting when even somebody getting interested in elections for the first time can figure out the truth without anybody even pointing it out? The Greens?