Krystal Ball Quotes
I'm not saying that Paul Ryan would weep if Bernie Sanders won Texas but it's definitely possible.
Diebold was the manufacturer of Computerized Voting Machines which had more than 130,000 in service by 2006 serving millions of voters. The University of Maryland and others had done studies on the Diebold machines and demonstrated that there were a number of different ways that the vote count could be tampered with by someone wishing to control the vote results. Although not illegal for a voting machine manufacturer with knowledge of how to rig their voting machines, this quotation was used by the many people who opposed computerized voting machines generically and many who suspected a strong partisan vote rigging capability to support their positions.
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Utley made the statement on election night of 1948 when HG Kaltenborn and must other pundits observed that Truman’s early lead was not big enough to overcome the results of the rural precincts which were slower to report and most assumed went heavily for Dewey. Utley, however, had conducted his own exit poll in the Chicago region and found that people who supported Dewey, when they got into the voting booth just could not support him. He appears to be the first journalist to call the election for Truman.
Kristol’s reputation as a political pundit suffered as a result of this assertion. However, Kristol was a very astute observer of the political scene; it indicates how remote Obama’s chances were believed to be even in 2006. Kristol was not alone in his view, just more bold in asserting it.
In the 2012 election, the candidates campaigned at all in only 10 states after the political conventions.
Krystal Marie Ball is an American progressive political commentator who co-hosts Rising with the Hill's Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti, produced by The Hill. She was previously a political candidate, as well as a television host at MSNBC, and a regular contributor to the Huffington Post. Ball is also a co-host with Kyle Kulinski on the progressive podcast Krystal Kyle & Friends. She's had guest appearances in various programs and networks, including on CNN, CNBC, Fox News, and Real Time with Bill Maher.
