Surprise: No Voter Intimidation In NY-23 | Snapped Shot

Liberal bloggers have been frothing at the mouth over this story all day long:

I just got off the phone with former state Democratic Chairwoman June O'Neill, who informed me the police had been called to at least two polling sites in St. Lawrence County due to overzealous electioneering (O'Neill called it "voter intimidation") by Doug Hoffman supporters.

"We've gotten reports that people are standing there, covered with Hoffman stickers and yelling anti-choice stuff at voters," said O'Neill, a St. Lawrence native who has been running the party's GOTV effort for Bill Owens in NY-23.


"Apparently, there's some woman claiming to be a commissioner," O'Neill continued. "Commissioner of what, I don't know. She's from Texas, I think, and she won't leave."

"This is not the way we roll in the North Country."

Oooooooo, dramatic.

Except it isn't true in the least. Imagine my surprise to discover that the left-o-sphere is as gullible as ever when it comes to Democratic whining:

UPDATE: Joy Yearout, spokeswoman for the Susan B. Anthony List, a pro-life group that has endorsed Hoffman and is providing some 200 volunteers for him today, called in to provide "some additional information."

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"At least three of our volunteers have been threatened with police when they're not doing anything wrong," Yearout said. "They haven't seen any Democrats. No one for Owens."

"So, apparently, the poll workers who are Owens supporters are doing the only thing they can do: Intimidate. And they're doing that by calling the police. Nobody's been arrested because nobody's doing anything wrong."

One wonders whether these vaunted denizens of Science! In! Politics! would be as outraged if they saw such clear cases of non-intimidation as this.