{"id":1739463,"date":"2022-11-15T11:02:47","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T16:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1739463"},"modified":"2022-11-15T11:02:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T16:02:51","slug":"president-fetterman-gop-sleeps-at-the-wheel-while-dems-mail-it-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/president-fetterman-gop-sleeps-at-the-wheel-while-dems-mail-it-in\/","title":{"rendered":"President Fetterman? GOP Sleeps At The Wheel While Dems \u2018Mail It In\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpresident-fetterman-gop-sleeps-at-the-wheel-while-dems-mail-it-in%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1739463&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>\u201cMailing it in\u201d doesn\u2019t mean what you thought it meant, at least not when it comes to elections.<\/p>\n<p>Usually synonymous with going through the motions, \u201cmailing it in\u201d is exactly how Democrats defied pollsters to turn a red wave into a blue bubble bath in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/republican-red-wave-stops-at-florida-as-initial-midterm-tallies-leave-house-senate-majorities-in-question\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tuesday\u2019s midterm elections<\/a>. Despite a population fed up with inflation, crime, and a porous border, they got a brain-damaged candidate elected to the Senate to keep it out of GOP hands and made a contest of the House, where some giddy Republicans had hoped to grab a 40-seat majority.<\/p>\n<p>While pollsters predicting GOP dominance focused on \u201clikely voters\u201d to read the tea leaves, Democrats in states with lax voting regulations did the opposite. They focused on people who, left to their own devices, weren\u2019t likely to vote at all and thus stayed under the radar of pollsters. Apathetic voters needn\u2019t familiarize themselves with the issues, much less get out of bed on Election Day if Democratic Party foot soldiers can shove a mail-in ballot and pen in front of them, get it signed, and then slide it into a drop box or hand it in at a precinct.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans concentrated on energizing their base, and Democrats focused on registered voters with no energy at all. In much of America today, that\u2019s a winning strategy. Whether you announce your values with an American flag or a yard sign, the votes of residents who aren\u2019t paying attention count just as much as yours. And the Democrats have figured out how to capture them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemocrats then combined mail-in voting with ballot harvesting, drop-boxes, lax deadlines, and little or no signature verification to create a scheme that would make Boss Tweed blush.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sundance, the blogger behind <a href=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/09\/big-picture-2020-midterm-elections-highlights-distinct-difference-between-ballots-and-votes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Conservative Treehouse<\/a>, says it comes down to the difference between votes and ballots, the former being a true expression of someone\u2019s electoral desires and the latter being a piece of paper filled out by \u2026 someone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInsofar as electioneering is concerned, where votes were the focus, the Biden administration suffered losses,\u201d he wrote. \u201cHowever, where ballots were the focus, the Biden administration won. Since the advent of ballot centric focus through mail-in and collection drop-off processes, votes have become increasingly less valuable amid the organizers who wish to control election outcomes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t work in states such as Florida, Georgia, and Texas, where legislatures have tightened up voter integrity rules. But in other states, distributing and collecting ballots among apathetic voters matters more than winning the battle of ideas, motivating the base, or even candidate quality.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats have wanted all registered voters to automatically get a ballot for years. All the way back in 2009, California Democrat Rep. Susan Davis introduced the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/covid-gave-dems-chance-to-force-mail-in-voting-theyve-been-trying-since-2009\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Universal Right to Vote by Mail Act<\/a>.\u201d It went nowhere on the federal level but caught on with a handful of states, including Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, and Utah.<\/p>\n<p>And then came COVID.<\/p>\n<p>The pandemic allowed the mail-in system to take hold in other states, first as a temporary measure. California cited the pandemic when it started automatically mailing ballots to each of its 22 million registered voters. But it worked out so well, the deep-blue state made it permanent. Ditto Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Vermont, and Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats then combined mail-in voting with ballot harvesting, drop-boxes, lax deadlines, and little or no signature verification to create a scheme that would make Boss Tweed blush.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the Democrats\u2019 mastery of mail-in balloting was best displayed in Pennsylvania, where John Fetterman defeated Dr. Mehmet Oz despite suffering a stroke in May that sadly left him unable to process or respond to basic questions without a closed captioning system. The obvious brain damage Fetterman suffered was on full display in the candidates\u2019 October 25 debate. Many Republicans felt genuinely sorry for him, their empathy perhaps stoked by the confidence they had just watched him lose the race.<\/p>\n<p>But by then, half of the state\u2019s mail-in ballots had already been cast. And now Fetterman, whose incoherence should be disqualifying, is on his way to the Senate. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/fetterman-2024-msnbc-panelist-floats-pa-stroke-survivor-as-next-democrat-hope\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">There\u2019s even talk of him running for president in 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans can complain about the new system that turns unwanted ballots into actual votes, or they can figure it out for themselves. If they stand pat, President Fetterman will do his best to express his gratitude.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMailing it in\u201d doesn\u2019t mean what you thought it meant, at least not when it comes to elections. Usually synonymous with going through the motions, \u201cmailing it in\u201d is exactly how Democrats defied pollsters to turn a red wave into a blue bubble bath in Tuesday\u2019s midterm elections. Despite a population fed up with inflation, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":729,"featured_media":1739466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1739463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/729"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1739463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1739466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1739463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1739463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1739463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}