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Michigan giveth, Michigan taketh away!
Emptywheel has a nice post about how some Michigan County Clerks are working to make sure that college students away from home can vote, even though they are being opposed by the state attorney general.
Unfortunately however, not all the news from Michigan is as positive. It seems from this AP story via MSNBC that the Michigan Democratic Party needs to hire some quality control folks:
DETROIT – A flier sent by Michigan Democrats — featuring a photo of presidential contender Barack Obama and urging voters to submit an absentee ballot application — includes a telephone number connecting callers to a phone sex line.
A party spokeswoman has apologized. But why do the Democrats keep making stupid errors like this. Totally preventable. And I will be honest, my first thought when I saw this was somebody at the printer’s shop did a nasty trick.
Once again, however, it is clear that we should never ascribe to underhanded deeds those actions that can also be explained by stupidity
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Speaking of ’stupidity’:
How these gibbering numbskulls came to dominate Washington
“The degradation of intelligence and learning in American politics results
from a series of interlocking tragedies”
Doesn’t this happen every election season?
In some way shape or form, yes.
S2D2.
This happens. It sucks. But I don’t think its effect will be widespread.
I imagine (hope) you are correct. I guess it’s my Quality Assurance background coming out – I hate to see preventable errors like this. And this was a preventable error.
Shorter: Democrats, even our typos are sexy and scandalous.
Hey, it’s a great way to draw attention to absentee voting!
This sounds like a Karl Rove trick. Karl was very good at this sort of thing in many elections. He stole the letterhead of an opponent and sent it out with an embarrising lie in it. During a difficult election on a local level he bugged his own office. Called the police and the newspapers, it sucked all the air out of the moment and Karl’s politician won the election.
Perfect Karl Rove play book move. I’d put money on it.
embarrassing, typo too!