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renate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-17-07 01:38 PM
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17. I wonder whether it might be more effective, despite being conciliatory...
... (which I have no interest in being, unless it serves our purposes) to present the facts not as a "Dammit! Republicans keep stealing the vote!" kind of thing--which, however true, will generally result in the news media promptly ignoring the data--but instead talk about it as "OMG! Machines screw up--next on 20/20.".

(I'm NOT saying that anything in your post is in anyway tin-foil-hatted. Just the opposite. It's very much just-the-facts. But will the general public listen? I think they're a lot more interested in a story that's presented in a general-interest "guys, you will NOT believe this--public officials screw up AGAIN" way rather than in a "the vote was stolen" context.)

On the other hand, reality does indeed have a liberal bias. So, never mind. I'm just trying to figure out how this truly, mind-bogglingly unbelievable story has been basically ignored by everybody but Keith Olbermann and the people who made that HBO movie, and all I can come up with is that the motives of people who have an agenda are automatically suspect, even if the facts support their case.

Super good collection of data, very clearly written. :applause:
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