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Black Panthers intimidate voters in Philly

Video shows two alleged members of the "new" Black Panthers wielding a night stick to scare away anyone who looked like they weren't voting for Obama at a polling station in Philly. I say "alleged" because although they are black and they are wearing militant garb, we don't know if they are actually members of the Panthers or just wannabes. Not that it matters much when it comes to wielding a deadly weapon at a polling station. Does Philly not have any cops?  Here's the video made by a University of Pennsylvania student as posted on politico.com:

http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/1108/A_faceoff_in_Philly.html

Pennsylvania Secretary of State Pedro Cortes seemed oblivious to this weird turn of events when he was interviewed by FOX but he did talk about four other precincts where unauthorized "poll watchers" showed up. 

Why Pennsylvania? Because the Keystone State could well be the key this election.

by Stephanie Ramage | Tuesday, November 04, 2008 at 2:23 PM in News and Politics, Opinion | Comments (1) | Permalink

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Commentby Zip | Tuesday, November 04, 2008, 10:43 PM

With research, it seems there's literally nothing more to this story than that two black men who live in a black neighborhood were hanging out by their polling station, and they looked intimidating......but apparently not to the people in their neighborhood. Not one voter complained or appeared intimidated. There is no suggestion that any voters from this Philly neighborhood were intimidated by two guys standing around in costumes. The college McCain volunteer with the cell phone camera? No one has mentioned if he was there to vote or what, but when he called the cops, they asked one of the men (the one with the nigthstick) to leave. He left. The other man either lived in the building or was working the poll (this isn't clearly reported, probably because there's no story here), but he had a right to be there, he had hurt no one, he had bothered no one, and he was permitted to stay. He was well within his rights. For all we know he's still standing there, because Fox News didn't bother to interview him. The story was blown out of proportion, which is why nothing more has been reported except that they were in fact standing there.

The McCain campaign has a whole web page of things they think are suspicious. http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/News/PressReleases/Read.aspx?guid=52e086ff-dc2e-4c48-b474-bc22b96a3b69  

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