{"id":37199,"date":"2019-07-26T09:41:33","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T16:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37199"},"modified":"2019-07-26T09:41:33","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T16:41:33","slug":"the-republican-way-to-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/07\/26\/the-republican-way-to-win\/","title":{"rendered":"The Republican Way to Win"},"content":{"rendered":"

We knew it was bad.  Russia flooded social media with propaganda using thousands of fake identities.  Of course the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise<\/em>, picked it up and ran with it.  The Trump campaign and the Republican Reich quoted it as fact ad nauseam<\/em>.  The deplorable Sheeple ate it up.  Confused voters stayed home.  And even some progressives, who I have known and respected for years, quoted it to argue against me and my ‘Vote Blue’ position, because they didn’t realize it was bogus Russian propaganda.  I suspected that Russia had infiltrated our vote counting infrastructure in a few places to a limited extent.  I had no idea how bad it really is!<\/font><\/p>\n

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The Senate Intelligence Committee concluded Thursday that election systems in all 50 states were targeted by Russia in 2016<\/strong>, an effort more far-reaching than previously acknowledged and one largely undetected by the states and federal officials at the time. <\/p>\n

But while the bipartisan report\u2019s warning that the United States remains vulnerable in the next election is clear, its findings were so heavily redacted at the insistence of American intelligence agencies that even some key recommendations for 2020 were blacked out. <\/p>\n

The report \u2014 the first volume of several to be released from the committee\u2019s investigation into Russia\u2019s 2016 election interference \u2014 came 24 hours after the former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III warned that Russia<\/a> was moving again to interfere \u201cas we sit here.\u201d <\/p>\n

While details of many of the hackings directed by Russian intelligence, particularly in Illinois and Arizona, are well known, the committee described \u201can unprecedented level of activity against state election infrastructure\u201d intended largely to search for vulnerabilities in the security of the election systems<\/strong>…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Click through for the rest of the article.<\/font><\/p>\n

Both Chris Hayes<\/a> and 11th Hour<\/a> reported on the importance of this story.<\/font><\/p>\n