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Rush Limbaugh Watch: Operation Chaos – Gaming Indiana

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Yesterday Rush Limbaugh called for an “operational pause” for his Operation Chaos. Rush gave this explanation:

Ladies and gentlemen, I am calling an operational pause in Operation Chaos. We have a week to figure out now what’s best to do. If your state still allows voter registration, keep that up, continue to register as a Democrat in upcoming Operation Chaos primaries. I think it’s too late in Indiana and North Carolina. Oregon, last day is today. There are other states coming down the pike, and Puerto Rico. But I’m calling an operational pause, and I will tell you why. My first gut reaction, my instinct, in listening to the audio sound bites of Obama today throwing Jeremiah Wright off the planet, he didn’t throw him under the bus, he put him in the space shuttle and he sent him to the space station so he can pal around with the Russians that are up there. Then I watched during the bottom-of-the-hour break here, I decided to watch the Drive-By Media coverage of this, because it became obvious to me — see, I read the stitches on the fastball; I can read between the lines, and I know that most of the Drive-Bys are in the tank for Obama.

But, is the challenging of Republican and Independent voters by Indiana Democrats the REAL reason?

Here’s Indiana’s odd rule for primary voting: The state code allows a voter to cast a ballot in a primary election “if the voter, at the last general election, voted for a majority of the regular nominees of the political party holding the primary election”—apparently meaning, in this context, that the voter voted for more Democrats than Republicans in the last general election. The law also lets voters into the primary if they did not vote the last time around but intend to vote for a majority of Democrats in the next general election. The law specifically provides that a voter can challenge another voter at the polling place for not meeting these requirements. The challenger gets to demand that the voter sign an affidavit stating that she meets one of the two requirements above. If the voter signs the affidavit under penalty of perjury, she can vote.

Or will the threat of suppressing the GOP vote in heavily Republican Indiana enclaves by forcing long voting lines (for affidavit signing) a sufficient rationale for Rush to suspend the Chaos or re-game it at the last minute so as not to tip off either Obama or Clinton campaigns?

Chaos is any event.

Stay tuned………

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