Twitter, Republicans, Super PACs are all above the law

[Dugout DickStone]

Deflect, deflect, deflect.....

I'm not deflecting anything. Deflecting would be saying "yeah, well the other side does it, too (and I'm sure they do, but that's not my point)." Feel free to bitch about this - I'll go ahead and concede that they broke the law because I could care less. I believe in the First Amendment right to freedom of speech, so I'm not going to get my panties in a wad when someone violates laws that trample on the Constitution. Do you realize that many of our Founding Fathers wrote some of their most influential work anonymously?

 

[CNS]

So publicly tweeting out polling data is illegal?

I think the part where they encoded the data so that it wasn't really made available to the public is illegal, but I'm not really sure.

Maybe it isn't really encoded to someone familiar with polling data? 

I saw an article that gave an example of a tweet.  It was something like this: 12/20, 38/42, 50/21, etc.

If you were familiar with polling data, knew what order, where, and what the numbers indicated, then yes, you could easily decode it. 

[john "teach me how to" dougie]

So publicly tweeting out polling data is illegal?

I think the part where they encoded the data so that it wasn't really made available to the public is illegal, but I'm not really sure.

Maybe it isn't really encoded to someone familiar with polling data? 

I saw an article that gave an example of a tweet.  It was something like this: 12/20, 38/42, 50/21, etc.

If you were familiar with polling data, knew what order, where, and what the numbers indicated, then yes, you could easily decode it.

Here is an actual example: CA-40/43-44/49-44/44-50/36-44/49-10/16/14-52-->49/476-10s

I have no doubt that these were only meant for certain people and by doing it via public tweet was a way to circumvent certain rules. But, rules are rules and they were smart enough to find a legal loophole. Good work, GOP.

I'm sure if they bothered to look, they would have found the same type of tweets from Harry Reids' Super Duper pac. They were the biggest spenders this time around.

[CNS]

is it a loop hole?  I get it was posted publicly, but it is gibberish unless you have the coordinated code.  The intent is obvious.  Is that not legally weighed? 

[Spracne]

Drink More Ovaltine

Anybody else?

[john "teach me how to" dougie]

is it a loop hole?  I get it was posted publicly, but it is gibberish unless you have the coordinated code.  The intent is obvious.  Is that not legally weighed?

CA-40/43-44/49-44/44-50/36-44/49-10/16/14-52-->49/476-10s

I think if you look at that long enough, it is probably 5 different polls taken on October 16th within California 52nd congressional district. I don't think it needs to be decoded.

[CNS]

is it a loop hole?  I get it was posted publicly, but it is gibberish unless you have the coordinated code.  The intent is obvious.  Is that not legally weighed?

CA-40/43-44/49-44/44-50/36-44/49-10/16/14-52-->49/476-10s

I think if you look at that long enough, it is probably 5 different polls taken on October 16th within California 52nd congressional district. I don't think it needs to be decoded.

I don't think you are being objective. 

[star seed 7]

If the democrats did this, the blogosphere would be going nutso and dax/ksuw would already have cute (but probably slightly racist) code words for the entire ordeal

[K-S-U-Wildcats!]

If the democrats did this, the blogosphere would be going nutso and dax/ksuw would already have cute (but probably slightly racist) code words for the entire ordeal

I would probably just point out the hypocrisy of breaking the very laws they're advocating for. Sort of like wanting higher taxes but dodging them, opposing vouchers while sending kids to private school, ranting about co2 while spewing it from their jets and mansions, etc.

As for code words, I probably just stick with libtard, but now that I think of it, libocrite has a nice ring to it.

[Cire]

Republicans are the university of North Carolina of political cheating.

[Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!)]

is it a loop hole?  I get it was posted publicly, but it is gibberish unless you have the coordinated code.  The intent is obvious.  Is that not legally weighed?

Didn't the mob use the newspaper in their illegal gaming racquet?

[Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!)]

The people whining about this are the same people who think requiring an ID to vote is oppressive.

[sonofdaxjones]

If the democrats did this, the blogosphere would be going nutso and dax/ksuw would already have cute (but probably slightly racist) code words for the entire ordeal

You are so full of Ovaltine!