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r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/districtcourt • May 26 '23
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There is also a chance that in bush' second election that there were some genuine problems
54% of votes discarded in Florida were African americans
in the same election, Ohio made it harder and less accessible for African Americans and poor communities to vote too.
While these were ultimately rejected by the republican congress at the time. It does not change the fact that Bush only won the popular vote by 0.7%.
47 u/PaltryCharacter May 26 '23 Also in 2004 Bush artificially raised the terror alert level just before the election. https://swampland.time.com/2009/08/20/color-coded-con-job/ 25 u/sbubgw May 26 '23 And it was a re-election during wartimes. Tough when it’s that stacked 18 u/PaltryCharacter May 27 '23 Yep. Which is even more infuriating because the entire war was based on a lie. 3 u/TheMadPyro May 27 '23 But in fairness, what a strategy. Start a war for no good reason, convince people it was a good idea, and then get re-elected because you’re in the middle of said war. Obviously it was bullshit but it’s not like they half-assed their way through those 8 years.
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Also in 2004 Bush artificially raised the terror alert level just before the election.
https://swampland.time.com/2009/08/20/color-coded-con-job/
25 u/sbubgw May 26 '23 And it was a re-election during wartimes. Tough when it’s that stacked 18 u/PaltryCharacter May 27 '23 Yep. Which is even more infuriating because the entire war was based on a lie. 3 u/TheMadPyro May 27 '23 But in fairness, what a strategy. Start a war for no good reason, convince people it was a good idea, and then get re-elected because you’re in the middle of said war. Obviously it was bullshit but it’s not like they half-assed their way through those 8 years.
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And it was a re-election during wartimes. Tough when it’s that stacked
18 u/PaltryCharacter May 27 '23 Yep. Which is even more infuriating because the entire war was based on a lie. 3 u/TheMadPyro May 27 '23 But in fairness, what a strategy. Start a war for no good reason, convince people it was a good idea, and then get re-elected because you’re in the middle of said war. Obviously it was bullshit but it’s not like they half-assed their way through those 8 years.
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Yep. Which is even more infuriating because the entire war was based on a lie.
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But in fairness, what a strategy.
Start a war for no good reason, convince people it was a good idea, and then get re-elected because you’re in the middle of said war.
Obviously it was bullshit but it’s not like they half-assed their way through those 8 years.
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u/WatchItAllBurn1 May 26 '23
There is also a chance that in bush' second election that there were some genuine problems
54% of votes discarded in Florida were African americans
in the same election, Ohio made it harder and less accessible for African Americans and poor communities to vote too.
While these were ultimately rejected by the republican congress at the time. It does not change the fact that Bush only won the popular vote by 0.7%.