Report: 59 Philadelphia Voting Wards Showed Absolutely No Votes for Mitt Romney

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In a fitting epitaph to the recent presidential election, a report in philly.com, the online editon of the Philadelphia Inquirer, notes that Mitt Romney was unanimously rejected in certain Philadelphia voting wards. We're talking zero votes for the man from Massachusetts. Nada. Absolutely nothing. Zip.

You could characterize this as the Obama campaign pitching a shutout, or Romney's campaign repeatedly swinging and missing. However, when the vote count is 19,605 to zero, well, what else can one say? We can reasonably suppose the Romney-Ryan message died a hard death in the predominantly African-American, predominantly 47 percenter wards cited in the story.

Unsurprisingly, the political Dracula known as "voter fraud" stuck its hand out from the political grave. According to the story,

Steve Miskin, a spokesman for Republicans in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, brought up his party's voter-identification initiative - which was held off for this election - and said "We believe we need to continue ensuring the integrity of the ballot."

Some people just don't get it.