Monday, November 08
In our tradition of bringing you the finest in left-wing insanity, we present to you The Blogging of the President. They have some great maps, but they are insane:
Apropos of Oldman's grand entrance and general attitude, I'm going to lay out why Kerry was a bad candidate. It's really very simple, and has little to do with his electioneering. He lost, and that sucks. But whatever. People lose, and the deck was stacked against him.The election was fair, but I'll grant you that Kerry was a bad candidate. I've said it before: Joe Lieberman would very likely have won. Maybe even Dick Gephardt.
But my reasons for thinking Kerry a bad candidate are a little different from these people:
The problem is that he conceded.You would think that a party called the Democrats would have a little more respect for Democracy, but no.He shouldn't have. He should have fought. He should have demanded all ballots be counted. When they were, he should have litigated. When the suits ended, he should have litigated more. When that didn't work, he should have used his position in the Senate to contest the election.
That's what fighting for the middle class means. It means fighting.
And their take on Rathergate is fascinating:
If this year has taught us anything, it's that there is no Democratic candidate that cannot be Gored or Swiftboated at a whim using lies and propaganda. But Rathergate taught us something as well that was very important - and it has to do with trolls.The memos were fake, you blockheads! The entire scandal was fraudulent from the get-go! That's why it failed.Part of the strength of the RNC is that it has a huge volunteer core of irregulars who are willing to propagandize and evangelize for it. It did this oddly enough by giving up some top level control over message. This is how the right has better exploited the internet than the left. The right was able to use the internet and its whispering campaign of irregulars to counterfactualize the Guard scandal and turn it into Rathergate / Memogate. It was actually able to push the message of the mainstream media to the focus that it wanted.
They truly believe the election was stolen:
Republican Election Theft RoundupPlus, from the BOP House Crewby Shaula Evans
The numbers don't add up
CIA-style hacking rigs election for Bush
Black Box Voting calls it Fraud
Surprising Pattern of Florida's Election Results
The Greg Palast classic: An Election Spoiled
Washington Dispatch: Vote Fraud in Ohio?
Presidential votes mis-cast on machines across the country
Reconciling voting machine and exit poll discrepancies
Ohio Whitewash
Institute for Public Accuracy on Ohio Elections
software flaw found in Florida vote machines
Florida numbers analysis (chart)
exit poll chart via BOP reader alyosha (thanks, man)
Stolen Election 2004
Open Voting Consortium
4000 votes missing in Pennsylvania County
Palm Beach county logs 88,000 more votes than voters
outrage in ohio
Broward County Florida voting machines count backwards
Diebold Pres Odell's 2003 promise to "deliver Ohio for Bush"
Greg Palast: Kerry Won
Diebold Machines yield fishy results
Machine Error Gives Bush Extra Votes in Ohio
More evidence of possible fraud in Darke County, Ohio
NC: 11,823 "extra" votes cast for Bush
chart: Florida voter reg vs performance
Something looks very wrong in Florida
Election Theft Bombshell: Major Security Breach
And finally, from the "We told you so" files:
A technical look at how they can steal it (from October 9, 2004)
Matt Stoller: another stolen election
oldman: speaks for itself
Barry Ritholtz: mapping out election results
Ian Welsh: Okay, it was stolen
Shaula Evans: fight fight fight
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