Seattle P-I poll: "Are you surprised * was reelected?"

[freeplessinseattle]

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/

(sorry, I thought it was still votable, I guess not, but an interesting phrasing nonetheless)

[Skittles]

1. not sure how I would have answered

I WASN'T surprised because although I knew more people would vote for Kerry, I never doubed that those lying, thieving bastards would stay in the White House - they simply are not done f***ing up America yet. I knew there was no way they were going to let go.

[freeplessinseattle]

2. yeah, it's kind of a trick questions, isn't it? (nt)

[LOCxHippy]

4. Sort of like

the old loaded question, "Have you stopped beating your wife?"!

And, heck yeah I am still in shock and denial. Not just that he "won", but that he took so many states. This makes me very uncomfortable knowing that people who are unaware of the truth and the issues...or even what is going on around them...foolishly cast a vote for this idjit. Just beyond anyone's comprehension, really.

[AndyTiedye]

3. Not Surprised by the Outcome - Still Depressed About it Anyway

The repubs are soooo predictable. I wrote this in February:

12. We Have no Safe States (Not THAT Safe, Anyway) because of BBV and Nader (Feb 14,2004)

Former Senator Max Cleland was considered "safe",
and he was up by double-digits in the polls,
but he "lost".

Progressives loudly proclaiming their refusal to vote Democratic
only make the election easier to steal plausibly.

Rove has surely written the copy already:

"There was a surge of angry white homophobes that swung a bunch of
votes to Bush*, and we also had a big surge to Nader in the liberal areas. Our exit polls were once again plagued with 'bad data',
which is why we refused to publish them, but we can trust these
results are free of any hanging chads, becasue they were all
recorded by the brand-new Diebold Republican Electing Machinez.
We won't have to worry about recounts or hanging chads, anymore,
heh, heh."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=335903#335990

We were able to keep Nader off the ballot in a number of states,
and he was less of a factor than we feared, but the scale of the
electoral fraud more than made up for it. (And now they are so
brazen that they simply change the exit polls after the fact when
the numbers there are embarassing to them!).