How the GOP will Claim the Midterms were Stolen by Dems

What will Republicans do after the elections? The ones left standing, I
mean. The rest will be asking, "Do you want fries with that?" or
complying with the request, "Will the defendant please rise?" They
could try to repair their crumbling base, refocus their efforts on
'limiting the damage' Democrats will be able to do, or -- the least
likely -- work on fixing the problems of corruption within their party.

Or, they could do what I think they'll do -- whine.

What
will they whine about? It's anyone's guess, really, but I'm guessing
that they'll say the electoral system is 'broken.' Don't get too
excited; they won't be complaining about either the voting machines or
crooked political machines counting the votes.

No. The problem, they may say, is you. To get an idea of how this works, let's look at the state CNN Polling analysts say is the most typical state -- in terms of the electorate, anyway -- my own home state of Wisconsin.

The Capital Times:

Last
year, at U.S. Rep. Mark Green's request, U.S. Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio,
convened a House Administration Committee hearing that was billed as an
examination of concerns about voter fraud in Wisconsin.

That sounded serious, except that there was nothing to investigate and Ney showed up without the committee.

After
spending the better part of a year trying to cook up evidence that
voter fraud or wrongdoing somehow cost George Bush the state's
electoral votes in 2004, Republicans had nothing to show for it - save
their own embarrassment. The state party's former chairman, Rick
Graber, held a press conference in August 2005 to claim he and his
confederates had uncovered nine instances of illegal voting. But an
investigation by U.S. Attorney Steven Biskupic - a Bush appointee -
found no grounds for pursuing the matter.

In fact,
to explain a loss by 11,000 votes, the GOP found a whopping nine
instances of alleged voter fraud -- instances without enough evidence
to prosecute. According to Spencer Overton, a professor at the George
Washington University Law School, it was typical of GOP whining about a
nonexistent problem. "Anecdotes about voter fraud are also misleading
and fail to indicate the frequency of the alleged fraud," Overton testified to the Committee on House Administration,
"...The Republicans announced that their research uncovered nine people
who voted in Milwaukee in November 2004 and also cast ballots in
Chicago, Minneapolis, or Madison." Those would be nine very busy
fraudulent voters, casting well over 3,500 votes each.