GOP Rising Star Mia Love Loses Tight Congressional Race in Election Day Shocker
Republican congressional candidate Mia Love talks with reporters during the Utah State GOP election night watch party Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, in Salt Lake City. (Credit: AP)
Saratoga Springs Mayor and rising star in the Republican Party Mia Love lost her bid for a Utah seat in the House of Representatives to Rep. Jim Matheson (D-Utah) in highly contested race.
Matheson defeated Love by less than 3,000 votes, but was able to edge out his opponent with 49 percent of the vote.
Love, who is an African-American Mormon, burst into the national spotlight after her fiery speech at the Republican National Convention in August. She was hoping to become the first female African-American GOP congresswoman and was favored by many to win. However, Matheson will return to Congress.
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JACKTHETOAD
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 6:03amToo easy for voter fraud with computers.May I point out prezbo’s birth certificate and moochele’s photoshopped **** (a few months back) as two examples.Evil won this battle, but the war has only begun.
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blanco5
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 6:12amVoter fraud won the election and always will now.
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Walkabout
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:02amblanco5
Voter fraud won the election and always will now.
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You can’t detect voter fraud or get a handle on its’ extent without voter ID. So you can’t prove it or make a statistical case for the need for Voter ID. Democrats like it like that.
When I lived south of the border as an expat, the 1st thing that happened was that I got an ID card. and no they didn’t say I could stay forever just because I had that ID. Quite the contrary.
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ISAIDITBLACKPOWER
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 9:21amTears tears tears!!!!
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ModerationIsBest
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 9:27amAll I hear is, “wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh”
You made your choices with the extreme candidates you selected over the last two years.
I was on here warning you all, you didn’t listen. Now, accept the results of your actions.
darkknight91
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 9:33amID’s or not, he’s right. Fraud is easy with computers. They were very confident they would win. This all went by design. The freeloaders outnumber us and their numbers continue to grow. A president with a dismal, embarrassing record wins handily. Mia Love loses to a Marxist in Utah? It’s over, people. I’m done with it all.
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rickc34
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 9:53amwatching the news right now and the stocks are down across the board. Invest in precious metals not the stock market, cash out your retirement plans and turn them into Gold and Silver. Our money is worth-less (worthless) because of the over printing by Obama. Thank You Mia for trying but evil raised its ugly head and took the day but God is still in control. God will use Obama to punish the wicked with higher food prices and taxes we will become a third world nation with a dictator , we got the President we deserve not the leader we needed.
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VerySeniorCitizen
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 10:18amHEY, JACKTHETOAD
It isn’t surprising that there are problems with voting machines when you consider that the oldest Romney son OWNS the company which owns those voting machines in a couple of the northern states. This video was posted to U-tube in Pennsylvania!!
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VerySeniorCitizen
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 10:26am@JACKTHE TOAD
Maybe Glenn didn’t like the u-tube clip I tried to post – so I’ll try again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdpGd74DrBM
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MensaMan
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 10:26amThe gimme bunch has successfully traded our freedom for the greed that drives them . . .
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JRook
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 10:51amGet real voter fraud is insignificant ate best and your assertion that it would only occur within the democratic ranks is laughable. Take the time to read about how elections were won or lost in W. Virginia back in the 50′s and 60′s. And by the way the real voting crime occurs with the kind of nonsense that occurred in Florida with respect to restrictions on early voting and limited availability of voting places. Nothing is more criminal than when people are systematically discouraged to vote. Didn’t notice many long lines in suburban voting districts.
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JRook
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 10:53amDidn’t really follow Mia, but the only thing better than the PRESIDENT winning was West loosing. And given the demographics of his districts, it was neither voter fraud nor minority bias. It was pure rationality.
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VanceUppercut
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 11:12amCon: It’s voter fraud!
Lib: What about the Diebold machines in 2004 that gave Kerry NEGATIVE votes?
Con: Well, I really must be going now, no time to talk.
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Man-On-A-Mission
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 11:43amSour Grapes……your party tried their best for voter suppression in many states…and now your claiming voter fraud……in Utah……..LOL…..that’s a new one. I’m a African American male living in Utah and I did not vote for her. Her stance on women rights and public school funding was too extreme….and she lost a tight race. If she won by 3000 votes, you’d be OK with that…..
SORE LOSERS!!!!!!!!!!
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toto
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 12:29pmNeed to go to irrefutable voter ID limited to citizens only! Until that happens are country will continue to be stolen by thugs that have no respect, honor or integrity. Very sad times for America, and very few people deserve to call themselves American citizens.
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lembrandt
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 12:48pmElectronic voting machines, early voting, absentee ballots, no ID required to vote…all of these things are Progressive ideas that have gradually been insinuated into our lives and ALL of them help with voter fraud.
There is no doubt that these election returns are an utter sham. The incredible landslide defeats in many races, where the Republican candidate was heavily favored, are not to be believed.
The Democrats miscalculated and they produced results that are too ridiculous to be digested. These results are calculated to discourage conservatives, but I think it will work the opposite.
Never forget this: I predicted this *exact* result in many, many posts – this was voter FRAUD at it’s worst. Because we have allowed our election process to be hijacked by Progressives, we no longer have free elections.
There are very few ways to go now, but secession seems to be one of the best ways to combat Obamaism. There is no way the vast majority of the land mass in this country should allow itself to be governed by a small minority in the major cities who have been propelled by voter fraud. All the state governments who challenged Obamacare in the courts should now leave the USA and form a conservative union that will be the LAST PLACE on Earth for sanity to exist – do it now.
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lembrandt
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 12:49pmstart pushing for secession from the union in the states that challenged Obamacare in the courts.
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Pigpen
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 12:57pmNobody listens to you here, JROOK. You only CONFIRM our worst suspicions about the liberal left. Shouldn’t you be off somewhere smoking you legal dope? No, I take that back. Please, keep running your mouth. The more you speak, the closer I am to making paleo-conservatives out of the disillusioned neo-cons here on theBlaze.
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v15
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 2:00pmI voted for Mia Love and sent her a message that she will always have my vote whenever she runs. A lot of peeps in Utah are unfortunately racist, many have adopted leftist beliefs from the Californians that have moved here, and the state is probably slowly sliding to the left.
I will admit that 3,000 votes is close enough to demand a recount.
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riseandshine
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 9:35pmV15……Diebold system….count what?
oneshiner
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 9:50pmThe truly decent, honest people with integrity, lost to the most corrupt, despicable, commie lovin ones.
God, what have we done to deserve what we got?
6 Trillion in debt, double gas prices, food prices exploding, no jobs, deeper in debt and they vote for the man who put us where we are. UNBELIEVABLE.
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riseandshine
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 9:56pmhttp://www.sos.ca.gov/voting-systems/oversight/ttbr/diebold-source-public-jul29.pdf
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v15
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 3:09am@riseandshine, I turned in an absentee ballot. Why give me the URL to the user’s manual for a diebold voting machine that’s 85 pages long? Why would I waste my time reading that?
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Triple7
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 5:27amWe are all under a marxist rule now. Read history and know what is coming.
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TRUTHandFREEDOM
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 5:39amWeatherman syndrome; They were wrong. They were Wrong. They were Wrong, yet the people return.
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TRUTHandFREEDOM
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 5:40amLove, West and other strong voices are still strong voices that represent us. They’ll be back and we’ll be there to support them.
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VanceUppercut
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 11:11am@Triple7
If you think that Obama is a Marxist, perhaps it is you who need to read history.
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ShamusOpayque
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 12:28pmThe Act—formally titled the “Act for the Removal of Distress from People and Reich”—was passed by a vote of 441 to 94. Only the SPD had voted against the Act. Every other member of the Reichstag, whether from the largest or the smallest party, voted in favor of the Act. It went into effect the following day.
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tbb
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 5:04amI am just heart sick. I voted for you Mia and so did my husband and my daughter. I really think that Matheson paid for the independent to run in the race. He knew it would be tight. If there hadn’t been a third party involved she would have won.
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QuincySmith
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 10:52amOne thing oblama said I hope is true: it is easier to change Washington from the outside (paraphrased).
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allyoucaneatbaby
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 12:28pmall three of you voted for her and she didnt win?….voter fraud is the only explanation, that and some sort of god-devil thing, i guess…marxism?
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Ahochau
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 4:55amRubio/Love in 2016!
just a thought……
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darkknight91
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 9:34amGive me a break. You could run Jesus/Moses 2016 and they’ll lose. The republic is dead.
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DonLukas
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 10:58amRubio/love,,,,That would be mcain/palin all over again,
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RamonPreston
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 12:20pm@darkknight91 They will fight Christ when He returns. Do you think they would vote for His doctrines/policies?
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allyoucaneatbaby
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 12:30pm@Ramon – Yes, we would… you wouldnt and dont.
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CPLGEORGE
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 4:05amMs Love, I really think you are just too good for that group. Don’t let them get you down, God has a better plan for you. I was sure you had it in the bag though, just like I was sure that that many Americans couldn’t possibly buy Obama’s lies, cheating, and crimes. Best of luck in the future.
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bobsmallcraft
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 4:51amI agree that the Republican party has many stars, but will they now get the chance to shine in a sky that will be darkened by four more years of Obama. http://smallcraftadvisorychronicles.blogspot.com/
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burnteye86
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 4:01amThe majority of folks who voted against Mia Love and Alan West were white folk. Just sayin’.
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FesteAinoriba
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 5:27amThe majority of folks that voted for Mia and Obama/Biden were white folk too.
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saranda
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 12:55pmReality is too many white repubs would not vote for her. This party has been fracked by the tea party picking flakey candidates and costs senate seats.
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Jetstream001
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 3:59amFocus efforts on fixing the voting system.
Then, and only then can you play on a level field.
Trying to play the game with the rules changing as you play is a no win situation.
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decendentof56
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 6:50amObviously, we need to stop the illegal votes. I’ve been saying here for two+ years that Holder’s DOJ would steal the election. It has happened.
What did anyone expect when people are allowed to walk up and vote with no ID.
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AlwaysAmazed
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:06am@JETSTREAM
I agree wholeheartedly. Although my state went red (a whole lot of good that did for America), I firmly believe my vote was stolen by a thief out there somewhere. I am sick and tired of a system that allows vote fraud to run rampant (non-citizens, felons, dead people that aren’t allowed to be purged from the voter rolls; non-secure and ‘faulty’ voting machines; boxes of ‘lost’ ballots found whenever needed; busloads of indigents and union members voting across state lines; early voting; walk-around money; absentee voting; lack of biometric IDs; rousting poll-watchers out of buildings; and a few more). It isn’t rocket science. We have the technology. It is dirty politics and a need to cheat.
I also think that returning the minimum voting to 21 is in order. These pampered pups simply haven’t enough worldly experience at 18 to make choices as to this great country. Pay some dues – then vote your conscience.
My last words to the greeter after I asked what type of machine was inside were, “I don’t trust any method.” I still don’t. At least it wasn’t touch-screen, and it looked secure, but the bad guys know all the tricks and then some.
Along with, my pet peeve is to start a boycott of all complicit media – print, broadcast, and on-line. They no longer serve us well’ Time to put them out of business. Even in Obummer’s limp-along economy, they have to pay the electric bill every month.
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title_of_liberty
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 11:04amWe need to get rid of the electoral college. And maybe more importantly, change our system from first past the post to the alternative vote.
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ShamusOpayque
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 12:33pmALWAYSAMAZED
As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man-
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began:-
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool’s bandaged finger goes wobbling back to the Fire
Kipling
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chasbronson
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 3:47amLike lemmings over a cliff they will go.Lying, cheating, and the foolish electorate of sheeple will destroy this country.Hope everybody has a parachute because we are over the cliff.
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raderby
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:51amagree. gun up, going to get dicey here on out.
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javasport
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 3:46amRacist Democrats. Can’t let African Americans get ahead in the Republican party. They targetted her just like they targetted West
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Magix5
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 5:17amRacist democrats? Correct me if I’m wrong, she lost in a heavily white, conservative state that gave Romney a landslide victory tonight. Yet somehow could not give that same kind of win to a black woman? Makes one think.
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Mr.Fitnah
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 3:41amDAmn shame.
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Lillith66
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 3:32amSomething wicked this way comes!
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MensaMan
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 10:34amThe gimme bunch has successfully traded our freedom for the greed that drives them
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Independent4233
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 3:27amThe country….and the globe….is in a free fall economically.
That will continue, as will societal degeneration.
I have a feeling impending doom is about to hit the US, as the dominos begin to fall in Europe.
Greece, Spain, and Italy are about to go, with France closely behind.
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Mr.buff1959
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 3:27amI will get back to you on this one.
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Frederick_Douglass_Republican
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 3:12amVoter fraud is endemic in the democrat party. Our republic cannot hold up under the strain of such corruption and the news media will not thoroughly investigate it.The doj wont touch it. Mia is an amazing courageous woman. My prayers go out to her. The liberal plantation owners and racist blacks have great hatred for her.
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ISAIDITBLACKPOWER
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 9:24amCry me a river!!!!
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Frederick_Douglass_Republican
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 11:30amI say you’re a white suicidal female.
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loneindividual
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 3:05amI’m a Former Mormon, no longer Christian, gone Lockean Deist.
STOP CALLING MORMONS & UTAHN’S RACIST.
This is simply part of the Elites plan to manipulate people’s psychology.
Itanimulli.com (reverse for Illuminati.com…which redirects you to NSA.GOV)
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GBTVFan_Non_American_Overseas
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 3:04amVery good people lost the race today….I think somebody upstairs (Very upstairs) is trying to tell us something!!!
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USALOVER2011
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 5:01amI don’t know what happened to her… She was ahead in the polls the whole time. Allen West? hmmm, very strange going on with this election!!!
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IOWAGIR
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:49amThis race was fixed!!! There is no way in hell this happend without the intervention of in power doing whatever it takes to stay in power. We need Obama impeached and punished for crimes against our country.
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Jenny Lind
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:46amName Soros mean anything to you all? His fingerprints and vote cheating because of lack of ID are all over this election.
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bekhiet
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 3:01amHow many dead people voted this time?
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burnteye86
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 4:03amAll democrats are brain dead.
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djn1313
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 8:42amIn obama’s hometown IL/crook county/chicago they are still digging up the graves, count isn’t over yet.
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Jenasus
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 2:59amMia Love gone. Allen West gone.
Anyone see a pattern here?
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GBTVFan_Non_American_Overseas
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 3:07amYep, and checking the price of concrete for that bunker….
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Female
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 3:09amRacism or revenge?
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Polarized America
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 3:30amFox should Fire Sara Palin she only spent 1.7% of sarahpac to this election, and most of that went to Romney, what is she saving it for ? another road trip around America on your dime if you donated to her.!
Where was Sarah McPalins support…they didn’t pay her enough to campaign for Love, West, & i’m not sure if Bachmann won……………..i’m ticked off and i hope she knows it
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GBTVFan_Non_American_Overseas
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 3:43amFemale,
I don’t think racism is behind this outcome at all. Somehow the government is in hands of the evil part….God taking away from the government the good people?…sending a message?…avoiding them (Good people) to be part in the evil the government is going to do next?…..I don’t know, but we have to admit that this is an outcome that any one of us was expecting.
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burnteye86
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 3:59amYep, sure do. The left’s a bunch of closet racists. They just won’t admit it.
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RightChoice
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 2:55amRacism at work !
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Polarized America
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 3:06amand where did it come from ? i hear Mormons are very popular in Utah.
i really hate to see her lose, Conservatives need to show the slaves in the lib. plantation that theres a better way —love & West can still work at that —————–
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AmericaMustBeFree
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 2:55amUtah, you get what you deserve.. Jim Matheson all lies.. Tell me again Jim Matheson how Social Security will be good for another 30 years.. Liar!
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Lord_Frostwind
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 3:01amJimmy is like a cockroach, you just can’t get rid of him no matter how hard you try. The man’s either going to have to resign or die before he stops getting into office in Utah, no matter how big of a screw up he is.
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Crazyotto
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:54amSeriously Mia was a fantastic candidate.. Utah and the rest of this now miserable country can screw itself…the Republic is now officially dead.
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Pigpen
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 2:52amWill NO ONE investigate the FRAUD at the polls? No, no one will. Why? Because if the Republicans investigate the Democrats stuffing the ballot box for Matheson, then the Democrats will investigate the Republicans throwing out the Ron Paul Primary votes in Maine, and everybody “loses”, nobody “wins”.
Sorry folks, but as much as I hate to agree with the Bill Clinton Pollster Dick Morris on ANYTHING, he was RIGHT. The polls WERE being SKEWED! WHY? Because the B@ST@RDS had every intention of STUFFING THE BALLOTS and a “dead heat” was the best cover for that.
The Republic is lost. The old whore has finally fallen. They are coming… run
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Crazyotto
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:56amAgreed!
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LameLiberals
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 2:51amUntil the GOP learns to commit voter fraud like the democrats do – they will ALWAYS LOSE.
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loneindividual
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 3:09amThe Elites made the decision. Stop calling it voter fraud. The entire system is a fraud.
As long as they keep you talking, you don’t do anything to actually fight.
“If you’re gonna shoot shoot, don’t talk.” – The Good, The Bad, & the Ugly
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sillyfreshness
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 2:50am11-6-2012 will have to go down as the nail in the coffin for the US. We will get what we deserve.
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Eaglesnest
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 2:45amI am sure Chrissy Mathews will be screaming racism shortly…..
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Margyt
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 2:56amSurely you jest. She is GOP.
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Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 2:44amRacist bastards.
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dirtypolitics
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 10:13amNope. Not racism. Ballot irregularity. The computers are rigged. Can somebody please check the computers and whether it is really Data In, Data out?
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riseandshine
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 12:07pmI also suspect fraud. There needs to be a physical record of every vote that is cast.
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