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OK, I hope USCountVotes finds lots of smoking guns and proves that Kerry won the popular vote AND the electoral college hands down. I'm glad they are raising the public's awareness of the exit poll discrepancies. I'm for anything that raises the specter of election fraud into the national consciousness and if we can't fix the electoral process maybe we can at least fix the exit polls.
But I think we have to continue to look at HOW the fraud may have been perpetrated and why the polls agreed with the vote tally in places such as TX and GA (E-votin' states) but were totally out of line in VT and NY which have little or no E-votin'. And the swing states need to be the first priority!
Focusing so much on the popular vote, which has no legal standing in the election outcome, may be a needless diversion. No one really campaigned to win the popular vote, but if anyone did, it was probably Bush because he lost it in 2000 and he wanted to be seen as some sort of straight talkin' populist as he conducts his stealth class warfare on behalf of the wealthy and the corporations. Yeah, Bush needed to win the popular vote but in the reality-based community, it's the electoral vote that counts.
If we want to deny Bush a mandate, we don't need exit polls to do that. Just look at his approval rating, the polls on Social Security, Iraq, and the rest -- even Schiavo. I don't hear much talk about a mandate anymore, do you? I'm more concerned with who won the Election, and like it or not, that's the Electoral College.
So have fun counting all those votes and if I can help, I will, but PhDs notwithstanding, I don't care who won the popular vote and neither does the Constitution. I care about who won FL, OH, PA, IA, NM and a couple of other swing states which, because of their collective lack of decisiveness on the issues and their collective ignorance about the true differences between the two major parties, somehow get to determine who runs the whole damn country.
If there was a theft, it occurred in the swing states, and so far, Ohio is the only one that's gotten any traction. And yes, OH, PA and FL were outside the margin of error of the exit polls, but so were 13 or 14 other states. That leaves about 35 that more or less agreed with these polls. Good luck sorting that out.
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