As @JedLewison of Daily Kos pointed out today, there's really only one group represented in Mitt Romney's new web ad "The Promise of America."
What caught our attention is the use of sound in the ad talking about demographics...
Notice at around 1:10 Romney's Campaign uses a clip of Fox News' Bret Baier saying "the former Massachusetts Governor DOMINATED across all demographic lines". As the GRio pointed out in March, there's really only one Demographic that matters in GOP primaries, and they are well represented in that ad.
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I think I can see the back of a black person's head in one photo, on the lower right.
That would be the token black, Chris.
I couldn't see that. All I see are a sea of white faces! It looks like a Mormon picnic! (Hold the soft drinks).
Democrats, especially minority democrats, get out and vote this year. Your life depends on it! No one wants to go back to the pre-civil rights era except the GOP.
It was probably one of their ' servers ' for the day !
Well, you heard him. This time we'll get it right.
Or was that white? I'm guessing the "Mud people" of mormon lore will be back where they belong?
This guy makes me sick.
So Mitt is white because he is a Republican, but if he were Democrat he would be Hispanic American? Did I get that right?
In Mitts mormon world color is genetic. He is white.
Leave it to the Obama MSDNC Propaganda Machine to fabricate more "Wars on xxxxx" and attempt to re-ignite the 'birther' issue and Rev. Wright in an attempt to distract the public away from a failed economy and jobs situation in America. Remember, it was Hillary Clinton that started the 'birther' movement during the Democratic Presidential campaign. Love those facts. The left loves to embrace racism/class warfare. Keep embracing the "victim" mentality and attempting to play the political under dog. It's a national joke.
The ad's put out by Romney.
A true Fox Propagandist. Do they pay you for this crap, or is this charity work?
Occupy Wacko. The fact that you cannot see blatant racism for what it is makes you part of the problem.
Radical, Right-Wing Republicans on Racism :
We are not racist because. . .
We all have many people of color working in and around our homes.
We support the right of people of color to move back to their country of origin.
We support the shoe shine men of color at our Corporate Headquarters daily.
When we use the " N " word we are just kidding.
We support President Obama's right to be a Muslim.
We don't deny that President Obama is a Kenyan American, we just don't believe his birth certificate.
Hope, Good one. LOL
Here's something to remember when thinking of the GOP: "It is not what we don't know that can hurt us; it's what we know for sure that isn't true."
They know a lot for sure that isn't true!
Anyone who denies racism in this country isn't paying attention. Just a few days ago, in WV, voters cast over 40,000 votes for a murderer in a Texas prison over Obama. Why? He is white.
Somehow he got on the WV ballot.
Exactly India ! It is just insane that the list I typed above is REAL. It is actually how they think about their own racism. BUT the good news is that they are a dying breed and the rest of us are leaning forward as they pass into oblivion.
"Leaning Forward" "Hope and Change" "Transformation" and other BS. Keep chanting what you're fed because they're counting on the simpletons to not do any research or think for themselves. You keep proving what worker drones you all are. Your predictability is amazing - like Pavlov's Dog.
I hope they pass into oblivion.....and take Mitt with them.
Looks like Mitt is playing his "Trump" card. He can get money and pander to the wack jobs in the base at the same time.. a two- fer!
Have you noticed how illiterate the new trolls are, Hope? Geez, where did they go to school? (If they went to school)! Don't they teach sentence structure anymore?
wacko can't even stay on topic. He does show a lot of empty air between the ears. Has on several differant theads. Never any facts or sources to back anything he says, just empty air. Did I just describe the GOP?
During the Democratic Party's 2008 presidential primaries, anonymous e-mails from supporters of Hillary Clinton surfaced that questioned Obama's citizenship in an attempt to revive Clinton's faltering primary election campaign. These and numerous other chain e-mails during the subsequent presidential election circulated false rumors about Obama's origin, religion and birth certificate.
So in your delusional world a bunch of e mails from sources unknown show up at Hillery's campaign head quarters proves that Hillery was behind the brither movement. How do you know it wasn't the GOP who were sending those chain e mails. What is even more amusing is you ignore the fact that only GOP supporters send chain e mail letters. This is great nothing enters into the tea bagging republicans beliefs that don't fit their beliefs.
If you dig deeply into what Whomitmay is saying it is actually the truth. This ' birther ' movement was made to look like it was Hillary's people starting it in order to drive a wedge between the Clinton supporters and then Candidate Obamas supporters and to create a split in the Democratic Party.
Republicans will do anything to win. There is no bottom to the diabolical nature of their Love of America but Hatred of Americans.
i agree, Hope.
It is just so sinister and diabolical Suzette !
They are Machiavellian. Can't help but notice Mitt cozying up to Trump for money. The man has no scruples. There's a 5 letter word for that...begins with w. Congress is full of them, too.
They do like some Americans: the 1% who support them. Donald Trump and Mitt Romney are living proof that you don't have to be smart to be rich.
You have no idea how entertaining you liberals are. If your leaders do something right - they're a genius. If they do something wrong or stupid - its a sinister GOP plot. I expect no less from the Party of Blame Games led by your clueless leader, Obama. Democrats will always be a party of racists - the same party that created the KKK and lynched blacks, and now work to keep them in poverty as witnessed by record unemployment in the black community under this administration. comedians!
occupy wacko,
I am glad we entertain you. Do YOU know how irrelevant you right-wing, extremist trolls are?
You guys stop wasting your time can't wait for 2012 or obama the dictator or who ever this dumb jackass is this week will be gone by next week
half wit right wing drones are are as much of a waste online as they are on earth
don't waste time on the fools
But it's fun.
wacko,
do some research on the southern democrats who started the KKK. they flipped to the repub party when President Johnson signed the Civil Rights ACT into law.
do you know anything about the history of this country?
The left can't tell the difference between propaganda and the truth; except when they don't like what they hear - then it's propaganda. If they like the lie, they embrace it as fact. The truth is relative to Democrats.
Well when you belong to a party who supporters believe telling a lie 3 times makes it a fact then you wouldn't know propaganda from truth because to your mind propaganda is truth.
What's next? I'm rubber... you're glue? Good to know we have the uneducated left represented well here on the Ed forum.
Its ok can't wait till you cry again when you are banned again.
its the right, the repubs, who hate "education". they make cuts to education every chance they get (disdain for intellectuals and the arts) a sign of fascism.
its important that people like you remain uneducated, because conservatives know that is the only way you will swallow their garbage.
Where are the blacK folks?
With Obama.
Well it's Ed's collage, I wouldn't have expeced anything else from the big leftist
What was that I couldn't hear you I have a GOP Bull @!$%# filter on my computer.
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Maxster1-
The images are all from Romney's ad, idiot. But then, I wouldn't expect you to know what the hell you're talking about. You only come here to unload your misery.
Linda, #5 They must be in the kitchen.
India, thank you for that racist comment. Again, the racist left is as predictable as Pavlov's dog.
I would advise you to be careful saying things like that to me. I can ignore your idiocy only so far.
I have worked for civil rights my entire adult life. Be careful which buttons you push.
Then think before you open your trap and place your foot in it again. I served my nation since I was 17 so save your 'holier than thou' BS. Now back to the comedy channel...
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wacko. Just how did India's post become racist? And I would be careful how you talk to people here. You've seen nothing yet. We've been extemely nice so far.
Whom, where do I get one of those filters. I may need one shortly. Don't want to say something I'll get in trouble for. The righties get by with stuff we can't.
Hey, where were all the Jews and American Indians in the Obama campaign ad photos in 2008? LOL Hey, I know you guys want to avoid topics like the economy/jobs, which is what Americans really care about, but these Ed Schultz forum questions are hilarious!
So are you.
The GOP legacy since 1980, no jobs, stock market crashes, bank bailouts, high deficits and whiners.
You forgot Savings and Loan thefts, cocaine dealing for weapons and selling them to the Iranians, abortion clinic bombings with Reagan saying "I understand them", Bush 41 saying he wanted to cut capital gains taxes "so poor people can buy summer homes", ...
Whomitmay, I talked to some friends of mine who are republican and they say they can not vote for Romney. The man is so disconnected from main stream America that all the photo ops and barrage of lies can not sell them on a candidate bought and paid for by the elite of this nation. He just is not like able as somebody you would want running this nation. Lets face it why would a man of his wealth care anything about the man living in card board box ? He can not change who he is he has lived as Richie Rich for all his life. A vote for Romney is a vote for the 1% all ways has been and all ways will be. Trump hanging around his neck is like one big gold ball and chain!
You make some awesome points Whomitmay !
Keep on posting and keep on telling the truth to the trolls !!
Hey, Pam, I am in solidarity now with my beautiful eagle!
Don't tell the cat.
I will be off line tonight, so keep the trolls in line for me.
Does Mitt's ad photo remind anyone but me of a Nazi photo from the 30's?
GOP Legacy for the last 4 decades :
Military Industries fraud and graft - trillions of dollars stolen from tax payers.
Wall Street fraud and graft - trillions of dollars stolen from tax payers.
Banking fraud and graft - trillions of dollars stolen from tax payers.
Foreign Dictators support/fraud and graft - trillions of dollars stolen from tax payers.
Etc.
Wow. They have accomplished so much haven't they ?
The GOP legacy since 1980, no jobs, stock market crashes, bank bailouts, high deficits and whiners. Really?
Obama legacy: Record sustained unemployment since the Great Depression.
Obama legacy: National credit rating downgraded to only AA+.
Obama legacy: Wall Street bailouts.
Obama legacy: Record deficits and debt (increased by $5 Trillion).
Obama legacy: Blaming everyone else and still whining about Bush for his failures.
Obama legacy: Record unemployment for blacks and young adults.
Obama legacy: Record number of citizens on food stamps and Social Security Disability.
Obama legacy: Promise to weaken our military defenses with the Russians.
Obama legacy: Obamacare that actually raises the cost of insurance and kills jobs.
Obama legacy: More bureacratic red tape and regulation to kills jobs.
Obama legacy: Supported the failed anarchist Occupy movement and its failure.
Obama legacy: Hired more Wall Street executives as administration officials than any other President.
the national credit rating dropped because of the baggers in congress.
the record deficit belongs to bush. he cooked the books when he kept the 2 wars and medicare part D off the books. now Obama gets the blame for it.
Obamacare-the individual mandate, A CONSERVATIVE IDEA, was constitutional according to the repubs, until President Obama put it on the table to get votes from repubs. now they act like they never heard of it.
record # of people on food stamps under bush.
W bush blamed clinton for 8 years.
all of your post is garbage.
hi wacko, thanks for all the Limbo-Hannity-Faux News talking points. I saw all those on clips of their programs too. You really seem to like posting here, why? Won't they let you spew your bs on their twisted vines? Or did you have to rereg to spew on here? just sayin' amigo.......
Obama Legacy: He allowed Occupy Wacko to be a whiner on this vine
Obama Legacy: Wacko becomes another right wing rereg
Obama Legacy: Wacko continues to breathe
Hahahahahaha Endot !
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the national credit rating dropped because of the baggers in congress.
Really?...
A credit rating is base on who is in congress now?
I'm sure it has nothing to due with the fact for every $1 dollar the US Government spends, it barrows $0.40.
Due the very basic math.
You can not barrow 40% of what you spend and expect to be prosperous.
I know the liberals & obama all think "Profits" are bad, and regulations & higher tax rates are very good.
Don't be too hard on them..... afterall, they are viewers of the Ed Show. You are talking to the lowest common denominator among our citizens. They wouldn't know a fact if it sat in their lap; only what they're fed by MSNBC. They can't provide you sources to backup their claims, and when I do - they get quiet real quick. Pure entertainment here. They have no clue that our debt increased by $5 TRILLION under Obama's administration because MSNBC never talks about the inconvenient truth, which is why they were all surprised by the 2010 GOP record victories in Congress. I hope they all remain asleep like sheeple watching the Ed Show.
stupidita I know you're not the brightest in the bunch but see if you can follow this. S and P made the decision they did because congress played games on the debt ceiling and some tried to say we shouldn't have raised it at all and succeeded to? The idiot republicans like Michelle Bachmann in congress.
to john boehner's credit he was trying to get things done it was the freshman tea party buffoons that were screwing up the process. Lie all you like it was the baggers in this congress playing games with the credit rating that resulted in this. You will exalt and adore congress for acting like incompetent fools and excuse them for all their misdeeds so they can continue to hurt the country purposesly as they have done trying to get obama but the nation sees through that and in fact does blame the GOP for it
And by the way wacko jacko idiot Rahm Emmanuel is jewish as is debbie waserman-schultz, chuck schumer, the mayor or NYC Micheal Bloomberg, Elena Kagan
Obama legacy: right wing troll makes us all laugh with dumbass comments
Thanks Barrack
Now which party was in charge of both the House and Senate during the 1st two years of Obama's administration? DEMOCRATS. Which party controls the Senate today that failed to pass a federal budget provided by the House for the past three years and gave Obama's budgets ZERO votes? DEMOCRATS. Which party supported over $5 TRILLION in new debt since Obama became President? DEMOCRATS. Lets see if you can do that simple math. Seriously, what a bunch of ass clowns on the left here. Our AAA national credit rating was downgraded because of DEMOCRAT mismanagement.
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The minority in the Senate unless the majority has 60 solid votes. Would please name the 60 Democrats that were in or ever have been in the Senate? But I guess you need to learn how the Senate works to understand anything.
India, I'm e-mailing "cat" a photo of your eagle. lol
Hi Larry,
Check your e-mail.
stupidita I know you're not the brightest in the bunch but see if you can follow this.
Go learn what the S&P ratings arm of the S&P do and how they come up with their numbers & ratings.
Furthermore a credit rating is the ability to pay the off debt...
wacko,
which party has filibustered everything the President tried to do.
the President did NOT have a super majority, because of the bluedog democrats, who vote with repubs on many things.
the filibuster obstructionism has been the rule of the day since President Obama took office.
it started when Pelosi became speaker of the house.
Hey big ed when was the last time you had some poor people up to the BIG Fishing Lodge??
How much do you screw the eeeerrr I mean charge people to stay there again??
$3000.00 each is that close?
oh stupidita, you little rascal.....r u at it again?! Have you thought about doing stand up? On Faux News?
Ed had no problem accepting $200K from the unions (according to the US Department of Labor) while stumping for them in Wisconsin. You can always count on MSDNC to have people like Keith "Fired Again" Olbermann, Ed "Union Lap Dog" Schultz, Al "Race Pimp" Sharpton, Rachel "I'm not a man" Maddow and other wackos dressed up as "journalists" while smoking the Obama crack pipe.
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I thought you righties were all for "free enterprise". OH, hell, that's right. Only if it's a right wing enterprise.
Keep USDA inspectors and our food safe. Petition
http://wh.gov/EAQ
just like good old mutt
WE THE PEOPLE are the job creators. It is you and me, the so-called middle class that are the engine of the US economy. When WE spend money on goods and services, it drives those who employ folks to provide those goods and services to hire more PEOPLE to fulfill the demand WE CREATE.
Liberals believe the government is the job creators while demonizing the real private sector job creators with their Occupy nonsense. Don't worry, we'll be sending you all home this November.
Wrong again. We've always said the middle class is the job creaters. But don't let the little facts get in the way of you empty air pocket.
mr. wacko your comments are so offensive that i have reported you as inflammayory. everybody else who finds him and his cooments offensive can do the same thing. right next to his post is an exclammtion symbol go there and it will show you. from this point on i am not stooping to his level and will ignore him. you know what they say about ignorance is bliss
Wahhhh! Waaaahhh!
Suzette
Statistics from the U.S. Department of Agriculture which show that there are 44.7 million Americans on food stamps – and there are more people are on food stamps now than at any time during the Bush administration.
But we know how you like to post without any regard to FACTS!!!
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wishuponagreatamerica. who's posting the right facts here. no more of us were on food stamps under bush
Billie Mazza
Again according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture
From the last full year of Bush’s presidency (2008) through 2011, just three years into President Obama’s presidency, the number of people on food stamps increased 16.5 million -- going from 28.2 million to 44.7 million -- an increase of 59 percent in just a 3-year period.
The left are allergic to the truth which is why they only watch MSDNC and keep their heads buried in the sand.
Wish- Your numbers are accurate according to Federal Dependency Ratio. There on line look them up all you Mod Squaders. This ratio is higher Jimmy Carters. More people depend government support services during this administration than any in history per population percentages. To put it bluntly Obama is getting F on his report card. Well that's Socialism for ya.
Thank you very much Outlaw
As you can see when people like Billie are proved WRONG they just crawl away with their tails between their legs
We are headed back to this point with Mitt Romney as president.
Phil, let's start with the meltdown and the causes. What did you guys find to be
the basic causes of the meltdown?
Well, at the heart of this crisis
were really the twin factors of recklessness
on Wall Street -- unbridled,
reckless actions -- coupled with abject regulatory
neglect in Washington,
this brew of a private, financial sector run amok without
the kind of
guardians of the public interest on the watch, protecting our
economy,
protecting our financial system. And I think when you look at what
happened,
what's most striking is the extent to which this was an avoidable
crisis.
You know, there has been a whole school of rhetoric coming out of this
crisis
that it was the perfect storm, that this could not have been
anticipated, that
there were such large forces that collided that no human
being could have
foreseen the magnitude of what happened to our financial
system and to our
country. But when you look at the facts, what you will see
is you will see a
building over 30 years of a deregulatory mind-set in which
the belief became
embedded in intellectual circles and the financial circles
that the financial
masters on Wall Street had learned to control risk, that
there was an
intersection of their interest in self-preservation with the
protection of the
public interest, and there was a real belief in the light
hand of regulation.
But in the early 2000s you see the emergence of lots
of warning signs, red
flags, flashing red and yellow lights along the way:
the unsustainable rise in
housing prices; the reports of egregious and
predatory lending practices that
were cropping up all over this country,
starting in places like Cleveland and
then spreading to the "sand states"
[Arizona, California, Florida and Nevada].
What you see is, as early as
2004, the FBI is warning about an epidemic of
mortgage fraud that, if left
unchecked, could leave us with losses as big as the
savings and loan crisis.
You see the growing risk being taken by the big
financial houses on Wall
Street. Take, for example, Goldman Sachs. In 1997, I
think they make about
39 percent or so, or in the high 30s of their revenue
comes from what they
call principal and trading, principal investment and
trading.
By
2007 that has risen to about 79 percent, essentially making money just by
trading on the marketplace. And of course you had that small matter of the
doubling of mortgage debt in this country and the creation of $13 trillion
of
mortgage securities. All of that occurred as regulators either turned a
blind
eye or didn't have a real sense of the risks that were embedded in
this system
that had grown in the last two to three decades.
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Sgirl 54. This is great work. There is no denying what the Bush years brought they are recorded for the history books. This country was taken to the brink of disaster to squeeze every last dime that could be made. Remember when Paulsen came to the Rose garden i think it was when Bush was making a speech and said something to him. The house of cards built by the Bush administration was falling down ! For any one to back Romney is to seal the coffin lid on this country because we will be dead as a nation. To use the Bush advisers and many of same policy's will be the end of America as we know it. Romney is bought and payed for and is in the deep pockets of those who would buy the election for him.
Mitt Romney wants to repeal regulation, Healthcare, and anything that doesn't support the status quo. Money, Power and Wall Street.
This is what happen that caused the economy crisis and it will happen again if the Republicans regains the W.H.
The Republicans are trying to stop the democratics from voting in the 2012 election in order to defeat President Obama. President Obama is working for all the people not just the chosen few.
Every one on this site should search and read Frontline Money, Power, and Wall Street to know what happen and how our Country got to this point. If you didn't see PBS 4 hrs show on this subject, then you should read it on the internet.
Donald Trump is using Mitt Romney to get back at Black Americans', Trump problem started in 1974 when he refuse to rent APT. to low income Blacks and use some bogus excuse's for the reason.
Trump were sued by some black and the Government and this is why he is hatingon President Obama i have the entire story in my email, but i may have a space problem on this site.
Sgirl , Thanks I will read it. Your last post makes allot of since on why Trump has been so disrespectful to a president of the USA. Real shows what bigot Trump is and a man that will stoop to any level to get attention. We will be in terrible trouble if money and greed rule America !
Thursday, Apr 28, 2011 04:22 PM CDT
Donald Trump’s racial discrimination
problem
In the 1970s, he was sued by the feds for not renting to
African-Americans
* Donald Trump in 1994
In an episode early in Donald
Trump’s career, his New York real estate company
was sued by the federal
government for discriminating against potential black
renters. After a
lengthy legal battle, it ultimately agreed to wide-ranging
steps to offer
rentals to nonwhites.
The little-remembered case provides crucial context for
the current discussion
centering on Trump and race. The celebrity
businessman made news last month when
he declared, “I have a great
relationship with the blacks. I’ve always had a
great relationship with the
blacks.”
He has recently come under fire for attacks on President Obama that
critics have
described as racially tinged. CBS anchor Bob Schieffer, for
example, said
Wednesday there is “an ugly strain of racism” in Trump’s
recent (baseless)
accusations that President Obama should not have been
admitted to Columbia. Also
yesterday, Trump told a black reporter,
unprompted, “Look I know you are a big
Obama fan.”
The discrimination
case began in the earliest days of Trump’s career, when he
was still in his
20s.
Fred Trump, Donald’s father, was, unlike his son, a self-made man. He
made his
fortune by building thousands of units of middle-class housing in
Brooklyn and
Queens. But in the early 1970s, Donald was made president of
the family company.
One of Donald’s first challenges came in October 1973,
when the Justice
Department hit the Trump Organization with a major
discrimination suit for
violating the Fair Housing Act. The Times
reported:
… the Government contended that Trump Management had refused to
rent or
negotiate rentals “because of race and color.” It also charged that
the company
had required different rental terms and conditions because of
race and that it
had misrepresented to blacks that apartments were not
available.
The journalist Gwenda Blair reported in her 2005 Trump biography
that while Fred
Trump had sought to combat previous discrimination
allegations through “quiet
diplomacy,” Donald decided to go on the
offensive. He hired his friend Roy Cohn,
the celebrity lawyer and former
Joseph McCarthy aide, to countersue the
government for making baseless
charges against the company. They sought a
staggering $100 million in
damages.
A few months after the government filed the suit, Trump gave a
combative press
conference at the New York Hilton in which he went after the
Justice Department
for being too friendly to welfare recipients. He “accused
the Justice Department
of singling out his corporation because it was a
large one and because the
Government was trying to force it to rent to
welfare recipients,” the Times
reported. Trump added that if welfare
recipients were allowed into his
apartments in certain middle-class
outer-borough neighborhoods, there would be a
“massive fleeing from the city
of not only our tenants, but communities as a
whole.”
A federal judge
threw out Trump’s countersuit a month later, calling it a waste
of “time and
paper.”
Writes Blair in her book:
Donald testified repeatedly that he had
nothing to do with renting apartments,
although in an application for a
broker’s license filed at the same time he said
that he was in charge of all
rentals.
In 1975, Trump ultimately came to a far-reaching agreement with the
DOJ in which
he and the company did not admit guilt but agreed not to
discriminate and to
take steps to open its housing stock to more nonwhites.
The company agreed to
submit a weekly list of vacancies to the Urban League,
which would produce
qualified applicants for a portion of all
vacancies.
But it didn’t end there. In 1978, the government filed a motion
for supplemental
relief, charging that the Trump company had not complied
with the 1975
agreement. The government alleged that the Trump company
“discriminated against
blacks in the terms and conditions of rental, made
statements indicating
discrimination based on race and told blacks that
apartments were not available
for inspection and rental when, in fact, they
are,” the Times reported. Trump
again denied the charges.
It’s not clear
what happened with the government’s request for further action
(and
compensation for victims), but in 1983, a fair-housing activist cited
statistics that two Trump Village developments had white majorities of at
least
95 percent.
At the very least, the case is something for reporters
to ask about next time
Trump touts his “great relationship with the
blacks
Donald Trump along with Mitt Romney are detestable. I feel sorry for DT's wife, she has to sleep with that bag of Gas!! (rich or not -- money only goes so far)
Did Mitt forget the nonwhites in those pix?
Mitt forgot the non-whites long ago.
We need to have Federal Identification Cards for this next election.
Proof of U.S. Citizenship before voting.