Your Election Picture of the Day From the City of Brotherly Love

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Ed Krayewski | 11.6.2012 1:47 PM

At a polling location in Philadelphia, where Republican election officials were reinstated by a judge earlier today, via Fox News:

electioneering at the polling place is frowned down upon — Fox News

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NoVAHockey 13 years ago

Is that painted in a school?
CE 13 years ago

Couldn't they at least cover that election poster/mural with a sheet? Or maybe some paint?
1. AlmightyJB 13 years ago
  
  I don't get how it's legal for them not to do that. Sure the feds will be right on that.
  1. Brutus 13 years ago
    
    Pfffffttt....hahahahaha!! Yeah, Eric and the boys'll get right on it.
2. shamalam 13 years ago
  
  A white sheet? Why don't you just admit you are a RACIST!
Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago

Dear Leader looks pretty presidential on that wall, although I don't think He should have been licking that ice cream cone while getting His mural painted.
1. DK 13 years ago
  
  Maybe Chris Matthews should leave some of his tingle on that ice cream cone. NTTAWWT.
DJF 13 years ago

Yes, but nobody in the picture is wearing a T shirt with a message so its OK.
The Immaculate Trouser 13 years ago

Wow, Morgan Freeman looks really weird with a soul patch.
Groovus Maximus 13 years ago

Lenin would be proud.
Scruffy Nerfherder 13 years ago

It's Philadelphia people. Expect the outrageous and ridiculous.
Trespassers W 13 years ago

How is that legal?
1. AlmightyJB 13 years ago
  
  That's not a picture of Obama the candidate, it's a picture of Obama the president silly.
  1. Rich 13 years ago
    
    *Please* let a lawsuit be filed to tie up the results.
AlmightyJB 13 years ago

Saw that the Panthers were back as well. Not sure if they're sporting the latest in Billy Club accessories again this time.
1. Fatty Bolger 13 years ago
  
  Apparently not, from what I've seen.
  1. Fatty Bolger 13 years ago
    
    Seen reported, that is. I'm not in Philadelphia, thankfully.
Episiarch 13 years ago

As absurd as that is, does anyone think it would actually get anyone to change their vote? So who really gives a shit.
1. Scruffy Nerfherder 13 years ago
  
  Internet commenters care dammit!
  
  You unfeeling bastard. I cried when I cast my vote away this morning.
2. Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago
  
  Oh please. You walk into that whatever the fuck that place is and see that there? You would be humping Obama's name selection on the voting machine, if not the wall painting itself.
3. AlmightyJB 13 years ago
  
  There are some pretty stupid people out there. Quite a few actually.
Pro Libertate 13 years ago

Ye gods.
Caleb Turberville 13 years ago

"Barack Hussein Obama. MMM. MMM. MMM."
R C Dean 13 years ago

Clearly, the Philly Dems have some kind of master plan for committing fraud. Else why would there be a coordinated eviction of Republican watchers.

They had to know it wouldn't stand, so whatever they were planning had to be something they could do in a few hours, at most.

I'm thinking they took their window of opportunity here to stuff the ballot boxes. It will be interesting to see if an unexpectedly (!) high number of "registered" "voters" "voted" in those precincts.

But that, of course, would require media investigations and reporting that might embarrass the Dems, so I doubt we'll ever know.
1. Fatty Bolger 13 years ago
  
  Hard to see what else could be behind it, besides fraud.
2. Doktor Kapitalism 13 years ago
  
  What I don't get is election fraud is safe states and districts. Is Romney somehow going to eek out a win in Illinois is they don't stuff those Chicago ballot boxes?
  1. protefeed 13 years ago
    
    There are other races besides Prez and congress. And PA isn't a total slamdunk for Obama.
3. protefeed 13 years ago
  
  It's pretty easy to commit fraud if no poll watchers are in place before the polls open. I was a poll watcher at a precinct, and one of the things I observed before the polls opened was the person running the precinct opening up the voting machines to show there were no voted ballots inside before voting started.
sage 13 years ago

This guy's legacy is going to be curing millions of people that are constipated. That picture is giving me the shits.
Anonymous Coward 13 years ago

Damn server lag. This sort of shit didn't happen when Lucy Steigerwald was here.
1. Doktor Kapitalism 13 years ago
  
  Drink?
Ayn Random Variation 13 years ago

My power just came on. Today I learned that Obama cut the deficit and has created millions of jobs. I have heard that Slick Willy is going around singing the praises of honesty.
Clearly, Earth has entered into some type of temporal vortex and is an alternate universe and I haven't heard about it yet.
Please advise.
1. Fladnag the Yarg 13 years ago
  
  Fear not Ayn, the worm hole will return you to one of two identical versions of hell by the end of the night.
2. Bobarian 13 years ago
  
  Didn't you notice that the waters had receded as well and global climate change was getting better...
3. Fatty Bolger 13 years ago
  
  When I went to vote I heard Obama talking on the radio to Ryan Seacrest. He said we should vote for him because when he took over we were in two wars and the economy was shitty, and look at us now. Which is funny, because I could swear that one of the wars was over when he took over, the other he escalated, and a third little war he started all on his own, and it seems to me that the economy is still pretty shitty. Oh, he also said that he will blow up the education bubble even more by increasing student loans. So there's that.
0x90 13 years ago

But what about all the Romney murals Reason isn't writing about?
T o n y 13 years ago

FOX News told me one Black Panther is gonna steal the whole election.
1. MP 13 years ago
  
  IT"S GOING 2 B ACORN ALL OVER AGIN LIBRUALLLLAASS AAAFFHFHAKLSJ!!!
Skip 13 years ago

I'm sure they'll be reporting this on MSNBC any second now......
The Late P Brooks 13 years ago

HOPE to never see that face anymore.
wingnutx 13 years ago

Election Judge Wears Obama Cap While Checking in Voters in Obama's Chicago Ward.

"The voter who took the photo says: 'Woman in front of me also given an extra ballot.'"
GILMORE 13 years ago

Teddy Pendergrass looks old in that painting.
db 13 years ago

To me it looks like the artist drew Obama turning away from a crowd shouting "CHANGE!" while whispering only of "hope."

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