Why do democrats always yell cheater when they lose?

Question

they even yelled it at each other in the democratic primaries.

Answer 1

It's always been that way. If they lose an election then half the people were disenfranchised but if they win an election the process of Democracy has been served. Ever notice they never demand a State recount when they happen to win? Republicans just shrug there shoulders and bow out gracefully. That's the difference between a child 's personality and an adult

Answer 2

Because they're so use to losing, they come up with excuses.

Answer 3

Why do repukes ask such wimpy questions?

Answer 4

They just can't comprehend how anyone can disagree with their views or candidates. Therefore, someone has to have cheated, because they are the majority in their minds. Reality is a little different.

Answer 5

Because if you've already lost, you have nothing more to lose by crying foul and taking the case to court.

What you can't win at the ballot box, you might win in court.

They're winning in a lot of cases because they're all over it.

In the last 25 years, Democrats learned that they could often reverse the outcome of elections by challenges.

One of the most controversial examples that many Republicans still point to as the beginning of the Hatfield and McCoys feud, was the fight over the election in Indiana's 8th Congressional District in 1984 which was won by the Republican and challenged by the Democrat.

When it wasn't settled in a series of court challenges to the satisfaction of the Dems, they brought it to the Democratically-controlled House of Representatives which, of course, decided it in favor of the Democrat to the howls of the GOP.

The Democrat was seated in the House. The GOP never forgot.

Since then the Democrats have routinely filed challenges in any and all close elections.

In 2004, a Democrat who lost a close race in Florida tried to have the House overturn the results and continued the fight until the end of the 109th Congress in 2006 even though the GOP winner held the seat.

The Democrats have used court orders to hold polls open past legal closing times, filing restraining orders at zero hour, so that their voters are aware of it but the GOP is not.  They have done this in the past three elections and in the Democratic primaries this year in several counties in Ohio.  This required shutting down and rebooting electronic voting machines calling into question the accuracy of the vote count, possibly setting up a later Democratic challenge.

They attempted to hold the polls open in Richard Gephardt's district in St. Louis in 2004 but the GOP had anticipated the legal filing and countered it, successfully blocking the action in the courts.

The close vote in the Washington State Governor's race in 2004 between now-governor Gregoire and Rossi featured a Democrat-funded hand count of votes that ended up with a 10-vote difference.  The GOP found dead voters, felons, and double voters among them but a recount and court rulings gave the win to the Democrat.

Democrats have an extensive volunteer program of attorneys who work across the country to file court challenges and watch all polling places, filing protests - just in case.

Any protest might provide the grounds to challenge the outcome and win, rather than lose, an election.

The worst a court can say is NO.

This year, the GOP has established a new program of attorneys but it is a fraction of the size of the established Democratic system.

Answer 6

It's like they taught us in Torts in law school.  If an accident happens, sue everyone, even if you know they aren't at fault.  Let them get a lawyer to prove their innocence.  Thus, if you lose and yell cheater, someone may find a way for you to win after all.

Answer 7

Sore losers

Answer 8

IN 2000 Republicans STOLE the election

(even though Al Gore tried to block absentee ballots from overseas military personel, and despite a Supreme Court ruling)

IN 2004 republicans STOLE the election

(even though Ohio used voting machines that the democrats insisted that everybody use so we could eliminate the dimpled chad conspiracy)

Who are democrats going to blame in 2008?  What state will be the focus of their fury?  Or are they FINALLY going to declare their distane for the one group of people who have the power to keep them out of the White House election after election, and that's the American Voters?  I guess we'll just have to wait and see!  

Answer 9

Democrats don't always yell cheater when they lose.  They yell cheater when the other side cheats.  Like when Bush became President because of a Supreme Court decision, not by electoral college votes.  

Answer 10

Because they are sore losers.

Answer 11

For the same reason that Republicans yell "traitor" when someone disagrees with them.

Nobody likes to be wronged.

Answer 12

They don't. They only yell cheater when they were actually cheated.

Answer 13

Because Democrats were taught as children that "Johnny there are no losers, we are all winners."  Then they grow up and can't believe that they are in fact losers.

Answer 14

It is part of their mentality.  They honestly can't believe that anyone would possibly vote against them.  It isn't whining or anything just pure shock that so many would vote Republican.  They have no idea how out of touch with America they really are..

Bush did not win because of the Supreme Court.  He won because he got more votes in Florida, which has been proven over and over again.  The Supreme  Court only ended the insanity of the endless recounts that Gore insisted upon..

Answer 15

If you are referring to 2000, Gore received almost 500,000 more of the popular vote than Bush.  Bush then sued to halt a legally legitimate recount of the vote.  It is hard to say the Democrats "lost" that election.

I do not remember Kerry, or any other Democrat, in 2004 saying that the Republicans "cheated".