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detroit Donating Member (163 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-26-04 08:08 PM
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Analyzing the spin
Right-wing radio and GOP spin for the past week has been ALL about how dirty the election will be, how nobody should trust the results, and how the Democrats will be cheating, etc.

Does this sound like a party that expects to win? If they expected to win, they'd be priming people to accept the results. The spin would be about what a clean election this will be, how it will heal the wounds of 2000, etc. We'd also be hearing all about the "great advances" made in voting technology and what a good job GW and Jeb have done to "clean up" the system.

The fact that the spin has been aimed at making people QUESTION the results tells you that they expect a result that they will WANT folks to question.
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DaveinMD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-26-04 08:12 PM
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1. very true
their internals must suck.
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indigobusiness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-26-04 08:13 PM
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2. It's so bloody obvious
They're gaming to steal the election in a new way, this time.
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mvd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-26-04 08:14 PM
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3. We won't let them
Let's think of it that way. :hi:
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indigobusiness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-26-04 11:58 PM
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5. Just assessing the strange
behavior.

Kerry has the mo.
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teach1st Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-26-04 08:18 PM
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4. Shouldn't the President of the United States...
...in a national address, tell the nation that our vote is sacred and that anybody interfering with that right - regardless of political affiliation - will be brought to justice?

Shouldn't the president be spearheading a national campaign to make sure that each American who is registered to vote gets to vote unimpeded?
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ekwhite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 12:02 AM
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6. LOL
Sure, the president "should' be spearheading a national campaign for an honest election. Unfortunately, what we have is a fanatical dry drunk who thinks the voices in his head are God, and the most corrupt administration since Warren G. Harding. These guys are COUNTING on voter fraud.

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