Pete Silva Loses Special Election in Nashua- My Post Election 'Passing Thoughts' (And then some...) - Granite Grok

Pete Silva Loses Special Election in Nashua- My Post Election ‘Passing Thoughts’ (And then some…)

NH-GOP_logoUsing back of the envelope calculations, comparing the turnout in November 2012 to the results from Tuesday’s Ward 8 NH House race, it is is difficult to suggest anything other than this.  Ward 8 is currently owned by Democrats and that’s the end of the story.

Silva would have had to turn out 50% of those who voted for Republican NH House candidates in November 2012 to beat the 36% of Democrat votes from November 2012 that Latha Mangipudi managed yesterday.

I’m not sure but I don’t think anyone has ever attracted 50% of general election during a special election so that’s a hill too high to climb.   That doesn’t mean that you give them the seat.  Silva managed 30%, which is actually impressive, but 30% of 500 fewer voters is nowhere near enough to overcome the demographic advantage Democrats currently enjoy in Nashua Ward 8 and let’s be honest–with a few exceptions they do a better job of getting the voters they have to ballot box on election day.

It is worth observing that the split between GOP DEM and Undeclared registrations from last November is very evenly distributed, but that does not address the number of undeclared who are Democrats that declare as such to screw with Republican primaries.  Yes, there are a few libertarians and some right leaning voters, and a lot of low/no information voters hiding under the undeclared umbrella out of embarrassment, ignorance, or fear, but with very few exceptions, no on right of center is so obsessed with the process so much that they would intentionally register undeclared just to screw with their opponents primaries.  Not with the kind of fever with which Progressives would.

That’s a tactic almost wholly owned by the left, found more often in places where Democrats know they already have a statistical advantage.

Two other points.

One, regardless of your party affiliation; if you generally oppose Democrat policies and want to beat them consistently at the polls you will need to find a better way activate those voters and drag the NHGOP behind you to do it.  The rank and file pro-liberty folks need to be energized–the existing state party can’t do it, and more often than not manages the opposite effect.  They didn’t do it in 2010–that was the Tea Party and Conservative and liberty movement.  Without them Papa Smurf Sununu would have been just as “successful” as every other GOP state party chair in recent memory which is to say not successful at all.

This means that we need a Conservative/libertarian Republican party up and running a coordinated effort along side or even in front of (how about regardless of) the existing state Republican party, promoting and supporting good pro-liberty conservative Republicans in primaries and general elections, and then voting against Democrats come next November.   I know, we’ve been trying to do that for years.   We did it in 2010, we can do it in 2014.   We can do it in spite of the lackluster wallflowers who claim the party name but are impotent when it comes to articulating the platform or the brand. We do it by aligning the  conservative and liberty groups and coordinating regardless of the NH-GOP–after all, they should be looking to join our Republican party.  It’s got the same platform but more energy.   How’s that for a unity speech?

My only other musing for the moment relates back to vote fraud.

I think it is imperative that we continue to question the authority of a legal system that ignores acts of fraud.  Nashua Democrat Latha Mangipudi allowed a Massachusetts resident, Alysha Tierney, to register and vote absentee using her home address, in November 2012.  She was not the only one but Tierney is an important case, much like the

This registered Democrat has been continuously registered to vote, since 2009, from her home in Ludlow MA.  Continuously.  She continues to be registered there, and with but one exception I am aware of, voted from her Ludlow MA home.  That singular exception was in 2012 when she double-registered so she could vote from absentee, claiming residence at the Mangipudi home in Nashua.

The NH AG’s office, complicit in their own right to this continual fraud, is disinterested in pursuing these acts of fraud, hiding behind their own definition of “presence” and intent.  Who, with clear conscience, can support their lie; that Tierney showed evidence of intent to be domiciled in the Granite State or through her actions established a presence adequate to allow her to vote…absentee from a Nashua Democrat’s home while being continuously registered from her Ludlow MA home.

The AG’s office lost it’s credibility a long time ago, under any number of previous administrations, on any number of occasions, but the recent spat of out of state voters and their enablers being cleared of wrongdoing, legal or not, is absurd.  If the people of this state do not rise up and object, if they do not challenge the status quo, if they not get off their asses and suck it up to elect anyone willing to first correct the problems in our electoral laws and systems which permit this kind of obvious fraud, they might as well just give up voting altogether and let the Democrats suck this state down the same hell-hole that swallowed up most of the rest of New England.

The AG works for you.  Right now they are working for anyone with the stones to use the current system to steal elections without fear of punishment.  I don’t care what party you are in or who you vote for, but we know which party is befitting most from the Swiss cheese domicile rules we are operating under.  It is the same party that is defending them.

The NH-GOP is frozen and useless on this issue.  While Democrats ran hundreds, perhaps thousands of transient voters through the state, OFA hacks, relatives, and anyone who get into the state on election day to same day register, even allowing them to register and vote from hundreds of Democrat homes when with no intent but to steal votes and then disappear, tilting dozens if not hundred of local elections, the NH-GOP is staring at the toes of their shoes over one potential candidate in one potential race.

I guess it has not occurred to them that if thousands (tens of thousands) of transient voters come back in 2014–unencumbered by the burden of principle or ethics–they could be more than enough votes to take a few targeted state Senate seats away, steal both houses of the legislature, keep the EC, and even deny their one potential candidate one theoretical victory in one possible race.

Let me be the first to offer an olive branch in pursuit of reconciliation with the Grass Roots.

I’d be more than willing to consider Reagan’s 11th commandment during a primary or a general election, even though the establishment RINO’s never will when it comes to attacking me, if just once, just once, the ass-hats that continue to get elected to run the NH-GOP would do something that actually demonstrates some evidence that they can see the long term gain; if the Executive Committee, inner-party enablers, voting delegates, local and county chairs, and what passes for “enthusiastic” New Hampshire Republicans–who at best can turn out a third of the voters to show up and support a Republican in any given NH election, and who are willing to give up hunting down and exposing the very thing that will guarantee their inability to win any election from this day forward, would demonstrate to me some inkling of the reality that it is far better to fight and to earn prominence on principle in a party that actually has influence than to be given influence becasue it is your due in a party that has no power at all.

Sure, the right people might keep you well-heeled, for a while, but that’s how you run an aristocracy not a party that helped free the slaves or end communism.

Which one are you?

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