| I think an underlying point is being lost here.
Punditry has reached such a level that both sides feel they are not only entitled but obligated to do whatever is necessary to make their side win because the other side is ignorant or dangerous or whatever the flavor of the month happens to be in their talking points. We have polling fraud and plenty of underhanded shit going on daily. The only plus is that it's happening on both sides so we can hope that it cancels each other out to being inconsequential.
I mean if it's not polling machines that might be registering votes for Gore as votes for Bush, it'll be democratic officials getting local judges to allow predominantly democratic polls to stay open well after the others have closed in republican areas. Everyone is corrupt in Washington and the answer to one form of corruption is another form of corruption. |