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This Is Why Republicans Hate Science

by: mooncat

Tue Dec 13, 2011 at 11:00:00 AM CST


New Republican Data Shows No Need For Voter ID Laws

The Republican National Lawyers Association (RNLA) in an attempt to discredit a NAACP report this week on the lack of voter fraud evidence has bolstered the view that there is no need for voter ID laws, imposed by many states. ...

Viewing the data for the period 2000-2010, the report by its own account shows there is no link between voter fraud in states and the need for stricter voter ID laws. 

OOPS.  So if Republicans conclude there's no evidence of massive voter fraud they're always fearmongering about, will they now admit those Voter ID laws are really aimed at something else ... like suppressing Democratic voters?

Links: RNLA data and NAACP report.

Republicans also shot themselves in the foot with data when rightwingers -- including the Kochs -- funded a two year project, headed by a prominent climate change denier, intended to prove mainstream climate scientists are wrong.  Instead, their tame scientist was forced to report that scientific data shows just the opposite, that global temperatures are rising rapidly.

Data is a bitch, especially when you live by lying to people.

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Was it Moynihan who said "You are entitled to your own opinion; (4.00 / 1)

but you're not entitled to your own facts".

In teaching seventh and eighth grade English, I have come across a section on "Fact or Opinion".  While it is heartening that such a matter is being taught, it is depressing how difficult the concept is for these kids.

Maybe because their adult role models do not differentiate between proven fact and blue-sky assumption.



Only after the last tree has been cut down. Only after the last fish has been caught. Only after the last river has been poisoned. Only then will you realize that money cannot be eaten. Cree Nation Tribal Prophecy

LMAO (4.00 / 1)

love the "rogues gallery" two old ladies and an escapee from the nursing home....

when was the last Alabama election decided by THREE PEOPLE? LoooooooooooL



A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. -Churchill

AL Voter Fraud (4.00 / 1)

Whatever happened to with all that heavy breathing and harumphing by our Sec. of State about the rampant voter fraud right before the elections last year?

Were there cases brought? Maybe I missed it.



"This is not a Republican or a Democratic issue. This is about the whole system being against us." - an Occupy protester at Obama's Des Moines office.

We all missed it (0.00 / 0)

Because it didn't happen. 

Fear-mongering ... it's how Republicans campaign. 

Voter suppression ... it's how Republicans win.



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