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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%.
49 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/ 7 u/Diarygirl May 27 '23 Those terror alerts became a joke. "Oh, we're on orange alert? What's the Bush Administration trying to distract us from this time?"
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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/
7 u/Diarygirl May 27 '23 Those terror alerts became a joke. "Oh, we're on orange alert? What's the Bush Administration trying to distract us from this time?"
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Those terror alerts became a joke. "Oh, we're on orange alert? What's the Bush Administration trying to distract us from this time?"
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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%.