There’s a Philly polling place located in a school. The school happens to have an Obama mural on the wall of the room used for the polls, which clearly violates the no campaign material in the polling place rule. The PA GOP is outraged:
As news of the mural spread Tuesday morning, Republican Party of Pennsylvania Chairman Rob Gleason released a statement accusing the Obama campaign of trying to suppress Republican votes.
“It is clear the Obama campaign has taken their campaign in the gutter to manipulate this election however they can,” the statement said. “Based on the Obama campaign’s behavior today, it certainly raises the question: what are Democrats doing in the polls that they are working so hard to shield folks from monitoring this election?”
Um, yea, I don’t think the Obama campaign chooses polling places, nor do I think that they ordered their brown-shirted rendition squads to stealthily paint a mural in the middle of the night.
Rather, some local elections official didn’t even think twice about the decor of the room he chose as a polling place, and that turned out to be a mistake. He should have chosen a different spot, or covered it up. The GOP is right to cry foul over the mural, because it is obviously a violation. So toss a sheet over it and move on, that’s all.
For the PA GOP, especially after their attempt to disenfranchise a not insignificant portion of Philadelphia, to scream voter suppression over a mural makes me laugh.
520 Chestnut 
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