Russian Hackers Largely Skipped the Midterms, and No One Really Knows Why

Re:Russian Hackers Largely Skipped the Midterms, and No One ... by quantummkv on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @06:06AM (#18440120)

Let me put out a theory filled with tinfoil hats, based on what I read on social media (Reddit/HN): (Disclaimer: I am not an American and I do not live in the USA. I have no horse in this rat race)

Amount of Russian Hacking in US Elections is directly proportional to the amount the elections go to the favor of the Republicans/Others.

Democrats won the house, so no Russian meddling happened. Had the republicans somehow managed to win the house, the democrats would have declared war on Russia by now.

It's both funny and sad to see USA behaving like the entire country is on LSD.

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Re:Russian Hackers Largely Skipped the Midterms, and No One ... by gronne on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @12:43PM (#18442932)

politely removes your tinfoil hat. sounds like something straight out of infowars. (Disclaimer: not from the US so also completely unbiased)

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Re:Russian Hackers Largely Skipped the Midterms, and No One ... by cafard on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @10:22AM (#18441601)

The Hound of the Baskervilles has laryngitis?

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Re:Russian Hackers Largely Skipped the Midterms, and No One ... by jki275 on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @07:02AM (#18440337)

Precisely.

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Re:Russian Hackers Largely Skipped the Midterms, and No One ... by nickthemagicman on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @08:30AM (#18440760)

My tinfoil theory.

They want some one to blame the soon to be failing economy on.

Trump has been taking credit for Obama's economy for the past two years and once Trumps policies start to take effect the economy is going into a recession and they want to blame it on Dems.

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Re:Russian Hackers Largely Skipped the Midterms, and No One ... by yeahigotgoats on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @08:29PM (#18446607)

so frustrating reading this bs, sad people believe this. you talking about the same obama et all that said all of this was impossible, krugman et all said market would crash then everything shot up election day?

so this is trump taking credit for obama's economy but once it sours, which it will, all of the sudden I bet it will be 100% trumps economy. how convenient

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Re:Russian Hackers Largely Skipped the Midterms, and No One ... by nickthemagicman on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @11:43PM (#18447558)

What? Have you looked at any GDP growth or unemployment charts?

A single one?

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