2004 election - stolen?
Probably. It's ugly and it's enraging, but it's probably so.
"Was the 2004 Election Stolen," Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s aptly entitled article in the latest issue of Rolling Stone Magazine, is an exhaustive account of the efforts of the Republican Party to throw the election in favor of Bush, even in the face of a Kerry landslide. And it worked.
"As the last polling stations closed on the West Coast, exit polls showed [John] Kerry ahead in ten of eleven battleground states, including commanding leads in Ohio and Florida, and winning by 1.5 million votes nationally," Kennedy writes. "Against these numbers, the statistical likelihood of Bush winning was less than one in 450,000."
Even Fox News, the almighty fist of the right, could see the train at the end of the tunnel, lights blazing and whistles howling, barreling towards them at a million miles a minute.
"Either the exit polls, by and large, are completely wrong, or George Bush loses," a correspondent said.
Who knew that at the end of the night, the Fox News team's wildest, wettest dreams would come true?
"As the evening progressed, official tallies began to show implausible disparities, as much as 9.5 percent, with the exit polls. In 10 of the 11 battleground states, the tallied margins departed from what the polls had predicted, and in every case, the shift favored Bush."
Exit polls are some of the most statistically accurate polls possible, since you're asking people to report on what they've just done, says Kennedy in his report. "Exit polls in Germany, for example, have never missed the mark by more than three-tenths of one percent."
It was stolen. We've had to put up with Bush for 6 years now, and there's still no proof that he's ever won an election, period. The corporate media watched the election(s) happen and stayed mum on the whole issue, just dismissing the exit poll results as anomylous. Even worse, we Americans continue to sit idly by as George Bush and his cronies foul our air, pillage at the gas pumps, and send our citizens to die for no good reason.
Shame.
"Was the 2004 Election Stolen," Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s aptly entitled article in the latest issue of Rolling Stone Magazine, is an exhaustive account of the efforts of the Republican Party to throw the election in favor of Bush, even in the face of a Kerry landslide. And it worked.
"As the last polling stations closed on the West Coast, exit polls showed [John] Kerry ahead in ten of eleven battleground states, including commanding leads in Ohio and Florida, and winning by 1.5 million votes nationally," Kennedy writes. "Against these numbers, the statistical likelihood of Bush winning was less than one in 450,000."
Even Fox News, the almighty fist of the right, could see the train at the end of the tunnel, lights blazing and whistles howling, barreling towards them at a million miles a minute.
"Either the exit polls, by and large, are completely wrong, or George Bush loses," a correspondent said.
Who knew that at the end of the night, the Fox News team's wildest, wettest dreams would come true?
"As the evening progressed, official tallies began to show implausible disparities, as much as 9.5 percent, with the exit polls. In 10 of the 11 battleground states, the tallied margins departed from what the polls had predicted, and in every case, the shift favored Bush."
Exit polls are some of the most statistically accurate polls possible, since you're asking people to report on what they've just done, says Kennedy in his report. "Exit polls in Germany, for example, have never missed the mark by more than three-tenths of one percent."
It was stolen. We've had to put up with Bush for 6 years now, and there's still no proof that he's ever won an election, period. The corporate media watched the election(s) happen and stayed mum on the whole issue, just dismissing the exit poll results as anomylous. Even worse, we Americans continue to sit idly by as George Bush and his cronies foul our air, pillage at the gas pumps, and send our citizens to die for no good reason.
Shame.
posted by RJ at 4:38 PM
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