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		By: Wow		</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/07/01/trump-went-full-on-dictator-this-morning/#comment-453658</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Wow]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jul 2017 16:45:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&quot;Julian Frost, the IF/When depends on what you are talking about.&quot;

Yeah, if you&#039;re talking about there being no voter fraud above the noise signal, it&#039;s when. If you&#039;re talking about voter fraud it&#039;s if.

And when you find no evidence, as with every other time you found no evidence (Benghazi, MBH98/99, etc), you&#039;ll keep demanding an investigation until there&#039;s evidence.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Julian Frost, the IF/When depends on what you are talking about.&#8221;</p>
<p>Yeah, if you&#8217;re talking about there being no voter fraud above the noise signal, it&#8217;s when. If you&#8217;re talking about voter fraud it&#8217;s if.</p>
<p>And when you find no evidence, as with every other time you found no evidence (Benghazi, MBH98/99, etc), you&#8217;ll keep demanding an investigation until there&#8217;s evidence.</p>
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		By: dean		</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/07/01/trump-went-full-on-dictator-this-morning/#comment-453657</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[dean]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jul 2017 14:57:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[mikeN, if you don&#039;t have a clue about studies of voter fraud you shouldn&#039;t comment on it.

brennancenter dot org / analysis /resources-voter-fraud-claims

(That first link has a long list of references to studies.)

brennancenter dog org / publications / truth-about-voter-fraud

(That second link gets you to a summary)

Your washington post story about virginia has been shown to be a load of crap (no surprise, given the &quot;fair&quot; organizations that carried it out).

News organizations in Virginia tried to replicate the same data gathering the folks in the story you found carried out -- exactly the same way. Their summary:

&lt;blockquote&gt;To replicate the investigation, CNS sent Freedom of Information Act requests to the 10 localities mentioned in the foundation’s report: the counties of Prince William, Loudoun, Stafford, Bedford, Hanover, Fairfax and Chesterfield and the cities of Alexandria, Roanoke and Manassas.
The requests asked for the names of individuals who were taken off the voter registration rolls since 2015 after it was determined that they were not citizens.
The FOIA requests yielded names and other information on 243 individuals who were removed from the voter rolls because their citizenship had been questioned. Four of them were later reinstated, resulting in a final list of 239 noncitizens who had been registered voters.
But did these individuals actually vote? The answer lies in the state’s voter history database, which shows whether someone has cast a ballot in a particular election.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

What was found?

&lt;blockquote&gt;Reporters do not have access to that database. However, it is available to political campaigns and groups. One such group is NGP VAN, which manages data for Democrats. CNS asked the organization to look up the voter histories of the individuals who had been dropped from Virginia’s voter rolls for not being citizens.
Of the 239 individuals, &lt;b&gt;the voter history database indicated that 28 had voted in an election. In fact, 26 of them voted in last year’s general election.&lt;/b&gt;
&lt;b&gt;For about half of these individuals, 2016 was the only election they voted in. But others had been voting for years – including one with a voting history back to 1996. In all, the 28 noncitizens were recorded as having cast a total of 120 ballots.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Hardly the bullshit claim in the wapo story or the one pushed by the right. I heartily await your typical denial of data that doesn&#039;t match your predetermined assumption.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>mikeN, if you don&#8217;t have a clue about studies of voter fraud you shouldn&#8217;t comment on it.</p>
<p>brennancenter dot org / analysis /resources-voter-fraud-claims</p>
<p>(That first link has a long list of references to studies.)</p>
<p>brennancenter dog org / publications / truth-about-voter-fraud</p>
<p>(That second link gets you to a summary)</p>
<p>Your washington post story about virginia has been shown to be a load of crap (no surprise, given the &#8220;fair&#8221; organizations that carried it out).</p>
<p>News organizations in Virginia tried to replicate the same data gathering the folks in the story you found carried out &#8212; exactly the same way. Their summary:</p>
<blockquote><p>To replicate the investigation, CNS sent Freedom of Information Act requests to the 10 localities mentioned in the foundation’s report: the counties of Prince William, Loudoun, Stafford, Bedford, Hanover, Fairfax and Chesterfield and the cities of Alexandria, Roanoke and Manassas.<br />
The requests asked for the names of individuals who were taken off the voter registration rolls since 2015 after it was determined that they were not citizens.<br />
The FOIA requests yielded names and other information on 243 individuals who were removed from the voter rolls because their citizenship had been questioned. Four of them were later reinstated, resulting in a final list of 239 noncitizens who had been registered voters.<br />
But did these individuals actually vote? The answer lies in the state’s voter history database, which shows whether someone has cast a ballot in a particular election.</p></blockquote>
<p>What was found?</p>
<blockquote><p>Reporters do not have access to that database. However, it is available to political campaigns and groups. One such group is NGP VAN, which manages data for Democrats. CNS asked the organization to look up the voter histories of the individuals who had been dropped from Virginia’s voter rolls for not being citizens.<br />
Of the 239 individuals, <b>the voter history database indicated that 28 had voted in an election. In fact, 26 of them voted in last year’s general election.</b><br />
<b>For about half of these individuals, 2016 was the only election they voted in. But others had been voting for years – including one with a voting history back to 1996. In all, the 28 noncitizens were recorded as having cast a total of 120 ballots.</b></p></blockquote>
<p>Hardly the bullshit claim in the wapo story or the one pushed by the right. I heartily await your typical denial of data that doesn&#8217;t match your predetermined assumption.</p>
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		By: SteveP		</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/07/01/trump-went-full-on-dictator-this-morning/#comment-453656</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[SteveP]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jul 2017 14:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&quot;Military families are growing less enthusiastic about the president, according to polling data that The Wall Street Journal collected and analyzed last month.&quot;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Military families are growing less enthusiastic about the president, according to polling data that The Wall Street Journal collected and analyzed last month.&#8221;</p>
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		By: Betula		</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/07/01/trump-went-full-on-dictator-this-morning/#comment-453655</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Betula]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jul 2017 14:37:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Poor Steve. his mental illness has taken him to a place he hates the most...he&#039;s become a Republican.
http://theweek.com/articles/568774/why-republicans-are-obsessed-comparing-obama-hitler]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Poor Steve. his mental illness has taken him to a place he hates the most&#8230;he&#8217;s become a Republican.<br />
<a href="http://theweek.com/articles/568774/why-republicans-are-obsessed-comparing-obama-hitler" rel="nofollow ugc">http://theweek.com/articles/568774/why-republicans-are-obsessed-comparing-obama-hitler</a></p>
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		By: MikeN		</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/07/01/trump-went-full-on-dictator-this-morning/#comment-453654</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[MikeN]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jul 2017 14:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dean, your link makes no reference to investigations that found no voter fraud.  What are these investigations you are talking about?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dean, your link makes no reference to investigations that found no voter fraud.  What are these investigations you are talking about?</p>
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		By: MikeN		</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/07/01/trump-went-full-on-dictator-this-morning/#comment-453653</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[MikeN]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jul 2017 14:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Julian Frost, the IF/When depends on what you are talking about.


They found votes cast by people removed from voting rolls as non-citizens.
However, it is not clear they actually were non-citizens, and may have been removed by error, like the example in the article.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/may/30/illegals-in-virginia-registered-vote-in-elections/]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Julian Frost, the IF/When depends on what you are talking about.</p>
<p>They found votes cast by people removed from voting rolls as non-citizens.<br />
However, it is not clear they actually were non-citizens, and may have been removed by error, like the example in the article.<br />
<a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/may/30/illegals-in-virginia-registered-vote-in-elections/" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/may/30/illegals-in-virginia-registered-vote-in-elections/</a></p>
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		By: SteveP		</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/07/01/trump-went-full-on-dictator-this-morning/#comment-453652</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[SteveP]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jul 2017 14:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Trump&#039;s attacks on the free press would be disturbing even if it didn&#039;t ape the actions of early Hitler.  The ease with which Trump lies would be upsetting even if it didn&#039;t run completely parallel to Hitler. Trump&#039;s attempts to block the investigation of Russian influence in America would be outrageous even it it weren&#039;t just like Richard Nixon. 

The use of anti-semitic memes by Trump surrogates during the election is despicable, whether or not he has a Jewish daughter and son in law, because it stirs up the cruel and vile bottom of the  base that he counted on for votes and power,  a base that now seems to feel far freer to express their arrogant , hateful, fearful   white supremacist narcissism, even if the administration is only overtly prejudiced against Muslims who are not the heads of oil states, in which case, he dances with them..  

Trump&#039;s repeated  incitements to violence have thus far been kept in check by a mix of law and tradition. It is critical that those of use who can continue to work to fight  Trump&#039;s anti-press tirades until  Nature and Nature&#039;s God cleanly and constitutionally  removes him from office.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Trump&#8217;s attacks on the free press would be disturbing even if it didn&#8217;t ape the actions of early Hitler.  The ease with which Trump lies would be upsetting even if it didn&#8217;t run completely parallel to Hitler. Trump&#8217;s attempts to block the investigation of Russian influence in America would be outrageous even it it weren&#8217;t just like Richard Nixon. </p>
<p>The use of anti-semitic memes by Trump surrogates during the election is despicable, whether or not he has a Jewish daughter and son in law, because it stirs up the cruel and vile bottom of the  base that he counted on for votes and power,  a base that now seems to feel far freer to express their arrogant , hateful, fearful   white supremacist narcissism, even if the administration is only overtly prejudiced against Muslims who are not the heads of oil states, in which case, he dances with them..  </p>
<p>Trump&#8217;s repeated  incitements to violence have thus far been kept in check by a mix of law and tradition. It is critical that those of use who can continue to work to fight  Trump&#8217;s anti-press tirades until  Nature and Nature&#8217;s God cleanly and constitutionally  removes him from office.</p>
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		By: Betula		</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/07/01/trump-went-full-on-dictator-this-morning/#comment-453651</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Betula]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jul 2017 13:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Steve - &quot;When a fool laughs at you, it is a compliment&quot;

Fooling yourself is no substitute for the proper medication...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Steve &#8211; &#8220;When a fool laughs at you, it is a compliment&#8221;</p>
<p>Fooling yourself is no substitute for the proper medication&#8230;</p>
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		By: SteveP		</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/07/01/trump-went-full-on-dictator-this-morning/#comment-453650</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[SteveP]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jul 2017 13:44:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Notice how the Russian sponsored Trolls, when their attempts at  applying peer pressure fail, become reptilian.  How boringly consistent.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Notice how the Russian sponsored Trolls, when their attempts at  applying peer pressure fail, become reptilian.  How boringly consistent.</p>
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		By: SteveP		</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/07/01/trump-went-full-on-dictator-this-morning/#comment-453649</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[SteveP]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jul 2017 13:41:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When a fool laughs at you, it is a compliment.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When a fool laughs at you, it is a compliment.</p>
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