Ron, I DO think the Republicans have been doing some well-organized cheating on the vote count in certain states in the past 3 or more elections...and that would NOT stop me from going out to vote against them if I were an American...it would redouble my determination to go out and vote against them.

Therefore, I don't regard sounding an alarm about it to be counterproductive for the American left. Quite the contrary.

Perhaps I am not so easily discouraged by reports of Republican vote fixing as you think I am. And perhaps that goes for many others also. It seems to me that anyone who suspects vote tampering has every reason to talk loud and long about it, just to alert other people and make them watch for any irregularities when they do go out to vote.

You can't make a problem go away by not even daring to talk about it publicly for fear it may "discourage" people.

I realize you are looking at that from a different argumentative angle, and the longer one defends any argument, the more one becomes loyal to it...but consider the angle I'm looking at it from. We both wanted the Republicans to lose, for gosh sakes! (and the fact that I have frequently criticized Obama's administration in the past 4 years doesn't change that one bit) I was horrified by the 8 years of Bush, and about equally horrified at the possibility of 4 or more years of Romney in the White House. I'd far rather have Obama in the White House, given the choice.