Jim Lampley (the sports broadcaster on HBO and other networks) has a great post up at The Huffington Post. He notes that on Election Day, Vegas bookmakers had Kerry as a 2:1 favorite in the presidential race, and that Vegas bookmakers are the kind of people who make extremely educated guesses on their odds (else they’d be out of business).
We know that professionally conceived samples simply do not yield results which vary six, eight, ten points from eventual data returns, that’s why there are identifiable margins for error. We know that margins for error are valid, and that results have fallen within the error range for every Presidential election for the past fifty years prior to last fall. NEVER have exit polls varied by beyond-error margins in a single state, not since 1948 when this kind of polling began. In this past election it happened in ten states, all of them swing states, all of them in Bush’s favor. Coincidence? Of course not.
Karl Rove isn’t capable of conceiving and executing such a grandiose crime? Wake up. They did it.
Of course, another axiom in sports is that you can’t dance with the champ; you’ve got to knock him out. If it weren’t such a close race, Rove could never have so easily stolen it. That it was such a close race allowed Rove, the Black Boxes, the partisan Election Officials like J. Kenneth Blackwell, and the various denial-of-service-to-poor-minority-communities schemes to manipulate enough votes to get Shrub his 0.726% mandate. That a decorated war hero was running against a C student who’s been a proven failure in just about every way you can measure a presidency… and didn’t crush him by 10-15%!… shows you what an evil genius we’re up against.
I try really hard to not engage in conspiracy theorizing. I believe Kennedy was shot by a lone gunman. I believe we landed on the moon. I believe that 9/11 was the work of Osama bin Laden and 19 hijackers with box-cutters, unaided by our government (however, they’re not off the hook for being so damn incompetant that the plan was even remotely possible!). However, I will never believe that George W. Bush ever won a legitimate presidential election, and will not believe any future close Republican victories until I see paper trails for voting machines and black folks breezing through voting lines in 30 minutes or less. Period.
