Connect the Dots
Pretty much if one says connect the dots and isn’t being ironic, expect blather. Real Clear Politics doesn’t disappoint. Right before an election many people lose their mind in partisan fevers and this is a good example:
But hold on. We know this woman was a DNC contractor, that she committed criminal acts with regard to at least 15 absentee ballots so far, and today we learn that she was involved with between 500-1000 absentee ballot applications, some which were found burned. We also know that Democrats have been doing an aggressive registration drive among Native-Americans that has resulted in unprecedented numbers of new Democrats being placed on the rolls in South Dakota. This KELO-TV story suggests that Ms. Red Earth Villeda may have also been involved in manipulating those registrations.
So it looks like the fraud issue is far from being resolved in South Dakota. Ms. Red Earth Villeda and Mr. Marshall claim this is all some sort of elaborate Republican conspiracy designed to gin up GOP votes. Republicans are connecting the dots and believing all of the reports cited above lead to the conclusion that Democrats are engaged in a systematic effort to influence the election results through fraud. Who do you believe?
Well, I believe that we have a contractor who has committed fraud. So does Josh Marshall. To connect the dots I would need another dot. Where is it? One person committing fraud is by definition not a ‘systematic effort to influence the election results through fraud.’ To conclude such a thing I would need a series of dots. I have one.