{"id":31132,"date":"2012-11-05T09:03:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T16:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/05\/sinister-or-just-sloppy.html"},"modified":"2012-11-06T09:37:30","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T16:37:30","slug":"sinister-or-just-sloppy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/05\/sinister-or-just-sloppy.html","title":{"rendered":"Sinister, or just sloppy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Combining the TV news report with the response from Rep. Flake&#39;s office, it seems one of two things happened:<\/p>\n<p>A. Rep. Flake&#39;s office not only has an erroneous set of information about what households have Republicans in them, but what polling places go with what addresses,<\/p>\n<p>or &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>B. Rep. Flake&#39;s office intentionally called Democrats and tried to get them to go to the wrong polling place.<\/p>\n<p>(I suppose another option is C, someone pretending to be Rep. Flake&#39;s office performed (B), either in support of him, or to create a scandal).<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, we will likely never know.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images1-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Flake_1335206280-300x200-e1346957330306.jpeg&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/justice\/2012\/11\/05\/1137841\/arizona-gop-senate-candidate-robocalls-democrats-and-tells-them-to-vote-in-the-wrong-place\/'>Arizona GOP Senate Candidate Robocalls Democrats And Tells Them To Vote In The Wrong Place<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAccording to a report by Phoenix, Arizona\u2019s NBC affiliate, Rep. Jeff Flake\u2019s (R-AZ) U.S. Senate campaign called Democratic voters telling them to vote in the wrong precinct \u2014 in some cases as much as &#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/efoFB46fMhe' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Combining the TV news report with the response from Rep. Flake&#39;s office, it seems one of two things happened: A. Rep. Flake&#39;s office not only has an erroneous set of information about what households have Republicans in them, but what polling places go with what addresses, or &#8230; B. Rep. Flake&#39;s office intentionally called Democrats &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/05\/sinister-or-just-sloppy.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sinister, or just sloppy?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2012"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29107,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/02\/protecting-the-health-insurance-companies.html","url_meta":{"origin":31132,"position":0},"title":"Protecting the Health Insurance Companies","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 2-Aug-12 10:44pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Two observations on Rep. 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