Griper Blade: How the GOP will Claim the Midterms were Stolen by Dems

What will Republicans do after the elections? The ones left standing, I mean. The rest will be asking, "Do you want fries with that?" or complying with the request, "Will the defendant please rise?" They could try to repair their crumbling base, refocus their efforts on 'limiting the damage' Democrats will be able to do, or -- the least likely -- work on fixing the problems of corruption within their party.

Or, they could do what I think they'll do -- whine.

What will they whine about? It's anyone's guess, really, but I'm guessing that they'll say the electoral system is 'broken.' Don't get too excited; they won't be complaining about either the voting machines or crooked political machines counting the votes.

No. The problem, they may say, is you. To get an idea of how this works, let's look at the state CNN Polling analysts say is the most typical state -- in terms of the electorate, anyway -- my own home state of Wisconsin.

The Capital Times:

Last year, at U.S. Rep. Mark Green's request, U.S. Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio, convened a House Administration Committee hearing that was billed as an examination of concerns about voter fraud in Wisconsin.

That sounded serious, except that there was nothing to investigate and Ney showed up without the committee.

After spending the better part of a year trying to cook up evidence that voter fraud or wrongdoing somehow cost George Bush the state's electoral votes in 2004, Republicans had nothing to show for it - save their own embarrassment. The state party's former chairman, Rick Graber, held a press conference in August 2005 to claim he and his confederates had uncovered nine instances of illegal voting. But an investigation by U.S. Attorney Steven Biskupic - a Bush appointee - found no grounds for pursuing the matter.

In fact, to explain a loss by 11,000 votes, the GOP found a whopping nine instances of alleged voter fraud -- instances without enough evidence to prosecute. According to Spencer Overton, a professor at the George Washington University Law School, it was typical of GOP whining about a nonexistent problem. "Anecdotes about voter fraud are also misleading and fail to indicate the frequency of the alleged fraud," Overton testified to the Committee on House Administration, "...The Republicans announced that their research uncovered nine people who voted in Milwaukee in November 2004 and also cast ballots in Chicago, Minneapolis, or Madison." Those would be nine very busy fraudulent voters, casting well over 3,500 votes each...

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