Map Crazy!

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.

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.

You would think that a party called the Democrats would have a little more respect for Democracy, but no.

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.

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.

The memos were fake, you blockheads! The entire scandal was fraudulent from the get-go! That's why it failed.

They truly believe the election was stolen:

Republican Election Theft Roundup

by 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)

Plus, from the BOP House Crew

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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