The reason is that, one, they are not even close to being "mainstream"--poll after poll shows them to be out of step with the American people, and way far to the right in the presentation of news and opinion, and two, the war profiteering corporate news monopolies (their real name) were COMPLICIT in the 2004 stolen election.
The votes in the 2004 election were tabulated mostly be two rightwing Bushite corporations--Diebold and ES&S--using 'TRADE SECRET,' PROPRIETARY programming code, with the public having virtually no audit/recount capability.
On election day 2004, when these Diebold/ES&S 'results' were fed to the news monopolies (through an AP computer), the news monopolies DOCTORED their own exit polls, to make them 'FIT' the 'results' of Diebold's and ES&S's secret formulae. This was not the usual adjustment of exit polls that is done to reflect the demographics of the election. This was unusual. It posited, for instance, a 100% turnout of Bush-2000 voters for Bush, failing to adjust for Bush 2000 voters who had died in the meantime. The "adjusted" exit polls are not possible. (See www.TruthIsAll.net.)
They put FALSIFIED NUMBERS on everybody's TV screens, saying Bush won--and implying that there was no evidence to the contrary, when in fact their REAL exit poll numbers (later admitted by the pollster) showed a Kerry win by a 3% margin.
They thus denied the American people major evidence of election fraud, and squelched protests and calls for investigation.
In truth, the 'results' of Diebold's and ES&S's secret formulae and the falsified exit polls (made to fit that result) are the only evidence that Bush won. All other evidence points to a Kerry win: The real exit polls. Pre-election, same day, and post-election polls. Issue and approval polls for the previous year. Voter registration figures (Dems blew the Repubs away in new voter registration in 2004, nearly 60/40). Huge voter turnout (always favors Dems.) Big majorities for Kerry among new voters, independents and former Nader voters. And more. And there is considerable evidence of tampering with the electronic voting systems, including big discrepancies between electronic vs. paper vote with electronic always favoring Bush (with astronomical odds against that), the discrepancy between the real exit poll numbers and the official tally on the east coast and in the battleground states (they stole it early)--also with astronomical odds against that happening--many reports of Diebold and other touchscreens changing Kerry votes to Bush votes, and almost never the other way around (astronomical odds), and much more.
And, of course, there was massive, illegal suppression of Dem votes by Repub officials in several states, including Ohio. Estimating the suppressed and purged vote, Kerry likely won by more like 4% to 5%.
The falsification of the exit polls is the worst journalistic crime I have ever witnessed (and we've seen some doozies lately).
It prevented change--the very function of voting, the heart of democracy. If you can't get your votes counted properly, and transparently, in essence, you do not have a democracy.
The Fourth Estate--once the guardians of our liberty--took away our democracy that night. That is why you hear virtually NOTHING in the corporate news monopoly press about this stolen election, despite major reports by Congressman John Conyers and his committee, a major report by the GAO, numerous reports from individual statistical experts, an entire book by election reform activists laying it all out, not to mention several big election fraud/election reform national conferences, the excellent information developed here at DU and other web sites, and a couple of dissenting journalists inside the corporate news monopolies: Keith Olberman, and Bob Koehler.
For Koehler's latest on the impossible numbers in the recent Ohio election on, of all things, election reform initiatives (pre-election, winning about 60/40; flipped on election day to a 60/40 LOSS!), see
http://www.tmsfeatures.com/tmsfeatures/subcategory.jsp?custid=67&catid=1824The war profiteering corporate news monopolies DO NOT WANT their crime to be exposed. That is why they don't cover this story--the biggest political scandal in the history of journalism and in the history of our country.
The Democratic Party leadership is also covering up this crime, for they, too, are complicit.
Not a word out of them--from 2002-2004--while Bushite corporations took over our election system with SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming code, and no accountability.
Are the Democrats insane? I thought so for a while. But now I think it's a mixed picture of extensive corruption among both Repub and Dem state/local election officials in the $4 billion electronic voting boondoggle (involving lavish lobbying, and "revolving door" employment)--which gives these officials too much power over elected representatives, who in turn won't challenge the corrupt election officials (I suspect Los Angeles elections head Connie McCormack, a Dem, of corruption on electronic voting systems, and of using intimidation of state legislative Dems to get rid of CA Sec of State Kevin Shelley, who had sued Diebold); corruption and fear also among Dem Congressfolk on electronic voting (I suspect Sen. Christopher Dodd of corruption on this matter--and he is the one who advised John Kerry about it, apparently).
And as for the other silent Dems, I can only guess that they like Bush's war, preferred that Bush continued to take the rap for all the horror and the cost, and also--because they are tied to war profiteers--they didn't want a president who was beholden to an antiwar grass roots, as Kerry would have been. And I suspect they now have a strategy of killing the campaigns of antiwar Congressional candidates by helping Bush withdraw some troops before the elections next year--while, of course, maintaining a massive US military presence in the Middle East for the future. (I think there is evidence of this in Minnesota Dem Party's advice to Colleen Rowley in her antiwar campaign for Congress, that she back off on the Iraq war, because Bush may pull troops out and it won't be an issue.)
The War Dems violated their oath of office voting for the unconstitutional Iraq war resolution. It's only a short step from that to selling away our right to vote--or not giving a crap about it.
My remarks here are not intended to spread divisiveness. God knows I have often warned people of the fracturing of the center/left in Germany in the 1930s, which facilitated Hitler's rise. I do not want that to happen here, and will likely support almost any Dem candidate for president in '08--regardless of their position on the war--because I think that will be our best chance at election reform, our only long term hope for major progressive change. But we must strategize on a basis of truth.
The hope and the energy that coalesced in the grass roots round the Kerry campaign in 2004 must never again be permitted to be destroyed by stolen elections. That hope and energy is too precious--it is the fragile but burning hope of restoring democracy. It is not destroyed by losing. It is destroyed by lies! If people KNOW they are losing to Diebold, they can DO something about it. If they DON'T know, then what happens is demoralization, depression and further disenfranchisement.
The public must be told. And they must be told the whole story, including how bad our Dem leadership has been. There is no other way to go in a democracy. Either we trust the people--and let them evaluate, and let them forgive, or not forgive, what our leaders have done--or we consign ourselves and our children to living with war and fascism for the foreseeable future in America.
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For an easy to read primer on electronic voting ("MythBreakers"):
http://www.votersunite.orgFor a project for statistical monitoring and challenges in '06 and '08:
http://www.UScountvotes.orgFor exit poll analysis:
http://www.TruthIsAll.net 
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