Democrats that have tried to- and sometimes did- steal elections.
In New Jersey, the race abetween corrupt Sen. Robert Torricelli and his Republican counterpart was too close for comfort. So what did the Democrats do? They forced Torricelli to drop out of the race and replaced him with retired Sen. Frank Lautenberg. The only problem was that it was against the law to replace your candidate so soon before the election. But that didn't bother them. With the help of a corrupt New Jersey Supreme Court, Democrats over- turned the law, thus setting the precedence that if you're losing, all you have to do is change the rules.
After the tragic plane crash that killed Sen. Paul Wellstone, the Democrats decided that they deserved to have a candidate for Minnesota Senator. They got away with it by appointing former Vice President Walter Mondale to fill in the nomination. Luckily, Republican candidate Norm Coleman held off Mondale and won.
On election night, the South Dakota Republican Senate nominee, John Thune, held a slim lead over incumbent Democrat Tim Johnson heading into the last part of the state- the most conservative part. That seat seemed a lock for Republicans. But Johnson won. What happened? There were allegations of voter fraud concerning an Indian reservation. Thune, however, decided not to challenge the results. He's got bigger fish to fry. He's running against Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle in 2004. And he's got a good chance to win. Again.
Clearly, the Democrats tried some funny stuff in 2002. They haven't stopped yet, either.
In Texas, Democrats in both houses of the legislature have fled the state. Why? They are trying to keep a majority in the US House delegation that they got unfairly. Early in 2003, Republicans introduced a redistricting bill because the previous legislature had not done its job and passed its responsibility to a liberal federal court panel. The fact that Republicans received 60% of the vote in the US House races and were a 17-15 minority to the delegation to the House doubtlessly had something to do with it. Stubborn Democrats, being directed by the DNC, picked up their cards and left. For more on this, see my Texas Democrats page.
Finally, we come to that controversy of controversies: the California recall election. The Democrats are declaring it undemocratic, when the fact is that more than one million Californians put their names on a dotted line, making it the ultimate in democratic actions. But they didn't care. They tried to overturn the recall by using the same methods the pro- recall crowd did. If they had succeeded, they may have overturned it with less signatures than it took to recall Gray Davis in the first place! Talk about undemocratic...
