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I'm interested to find out more about this one. Right now the closures appear politically motivated.
I remember when this rumor first surfaced and it was as baseless then as it is now. Wait, that's not quite true. The current evidence shows it is a ridiculous argument. This blogger has been around a while and he pointed out dealerships are overwhelmingly Republican. Out of 25 random ones, 23 were Republican. So if you have 10 closings but only 2 Democratic supporters out of 25 then how can bias be proven? He also has an update at the top of the article from a different blogger where an analysis was run and showed the rate of closure was very close at D: .93 and R:1.05 so once you factor in the obvious the political theory gets kind of.....soft.
theautoprophet.blogspot.com/2009/05/no-political-bias-in-chrysler.html
Also, a Rep from Florida owns 23 dealerships so that is clearly one of the contributing theory factors. I can easily imagine a Freeper or Bushie trying to point to him and say see! They are targeting him because he's a Republican!
You've got me convinced. I didn't see the link at first, but yeah, I've got it now. The "politically charged closures" argument is now as flimsy as printer paper.
Click on the link and scroll down to see his list of dealerships. He explained how he got them and linked the source. His list is of 25 dealerships that are staying open and out of that only 2 are Democrat supporters. That info makes it kind of hard to claim a conspiracy against Republican supporters when clearly they are the dominate ones staying open. He points out the flaw in the theory is looking at what dealerships are closing versus which ones are remaining open. By pointing out the majority staying open are Republican he pretty much squashes the conspiracy theory.