Digital Bamboozle

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Andrew flagged this post for me at TheNextRight, which claims that our series of posts last week on BMW Direct and their oddly inefficient direct mail fundraising is actually an attempt to ‘delegitimize direct mail fundraising’, which would be a bad thing in the author’s eyes since this is one mode of mass-fundraising where, he says (and correctly), that conservatives have a “tactical advantage.”

In any case, the author, Soren Dayton, makes a number of claims to argue that our reporting makes no sense. And I’ll try to follow up with a post explaining why his arguments don’t hold water. But what I really wanted to flag for you is that he links approvingly to a site called Election Journal, which appears to be a sort of one-stop shopping for all bogus GOP claims of election fraud designed to aid voter suppression efforts.

Some of it almost reads like parody — here’s a post about the Alabama AG calling out the Bush Justice Department for its blase attitude toward vote fraud.

I’ll definitely be bookmarking it. Sort of ground-zero for the ‘vote fraud’ bamboozlement, or at least the clearing house.

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