Thursday, November 04, 2004

get real, please or there will be no change

I’ve read in some comment that the election was rigged.

The election was not rigged.

I will not deny that some things happened with voter registrations as with voter eligibility and I’ll even concede that some votes could be tampered with but to rig a nation wide election is not possible without getting caught eventually. There would be too many people involved for there not to be some incriminating trail.

Look at the electoral map almost every state voted for Bush in 2000 as did in 2004. So, in two consecutive presidential elections four years apart, thousands of people in local government all over the country conspired to get Bush in office, twice. That just isn't possible. An argument can be made that the conspiracy only needed to be in certain key states but that doesn’t explain why Bush took a majority of the states in this country. The republican message appealed to a great number of people.

Were the eight seats gained between the Senate and the House also a conspiracy?

The democrats got beat. And until folks acknowledge that, then the true problem will not be fixed. I don’t know why a majority of this country voted the way they did but contributing it to voter fraud or some conspiracy theory isn’t going to make things better.

It most likely makes things worse.

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