Reply #13: I'm probably way behind on this thought...but what the hell....

[Chi]

For weeks, if not months, before the 2004 election, I remember a number of stories about re-selection, or pre-selection, of party affiliation.
The few off the top of my head were...

1) People, who just passed a citizenship test, were conveniently given an instant opportunity to register to vote. Only problem was the Republican check box was already selected.

2) College students signing petitions, were duped into changing their party affiliation to Republican.

3) People on the street signing up people to vote were changing their forms to select Republican.

When I first read these stories, I thought...'what the hell is that gonna get them, these people will still vote for Kerry if they want to'.
I thought it was meaningless.

About a week ago I came to the realization, that they weren't trying to change who these people were voting for...
They were laying the foundation to explain how it was possible that Bush won.

Sorry if everyone already thought of this.
(Chi crawls back into his hole)