perception at best ... the startling result of that 2002 election should've been a major clue of what was going on, up and down ... our elected officials have had plenty of information and insight to help them make decisions in dealing with Bu$hCo. ...
... one would think the 2000 stolen election would have been clue enough ...
but, again, we at our computers could see it and knew it ... we knew about Bu$h's skeletons and self-proclaimed media creation 'being'
... and, we armchair citizens saw everything else that went on post-both 2000 and 2002 elections ... the everything in-between 2001 onward ...
... and, we shared these with our elected officials on a scale likely not witnessed before (thanks to the 'internets') to what seemed deaf ears ...
Books were written. Vincent Bugliosi posed: 'None Dare Call it Treason'; David Brock broke from the right-wing to do a tell-all book ... are we to believe that our brightest never heard of Greg Palast??
did our elected officials need to ask the audience or call a friend?
... certainly some of the emails were read; phone messages recorded; and, petitions noticed ... the anti-Bu$h sites mushroomed with our voices ... clues everywhere ...
and, our leaders were somehow not clued in to the shenanigans of this cabal, or their MO?
Bush as Governor-Rove-Rumsfeld-Cheney-and the Iran-Contra crowd-Ashcroft, et al, didn't have clues written all over?
Heaven knows what Washington party-circuit whispered about all of this ...
The Democratic Party's history has no national security problem that can't be proved, demonstrated, and sold. The problem is likely not having the right people as leaders to fight the fight, i.e., Lieberman, et al. One TV ad with the military records of this cabal and its players would speak volumes.
Sorry to rant, but I don't buy this Democrats had a national security image problem ... GOP BS echoed by their corporate media puppets ... propaganda. Easily countered. Plus, any attempts to taint Democrats' 'image' didn't pan out because both Gore and Kerry won.
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USA Today reported on Nov. 3, 2002, "In Georgia, an Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll shows Democratic Sen. Max Cleland with a 49%-to-44% lead over Republican Rep. Saxby Chambliss." Cox News Service, based in Atlanta, reported just after the election (Nov. 7) that, "Pollsters may have goofed" because "Republican Rep. Saxby Chambliss defeated incumbent Democratic Sen. Max Cleland by a margin of 53 to 46 percent. The Hotline, a political news service, recalled a series of polls Wednesday showing that Chambliss had been ahead in none of them."
Just as amazing was the 2002 Georgia governor's race. "Similarly," the Zogby polling organization reported on Nov. 7, "no polls predicted the upset victory in Georgia of Republican Sonny Perdue over incumbent Democratic Gov. Roy Barnes. Perdue won by a margin of 52 to 45 percent. The most recent Mason Dixon Poll had shown Barnes ahead 48 to 39 percent last month with a margin of error of plus or minus 4 points."
Almost all of the votes in Georgia were recorded on the new touch-screen computerized voting machines, which produced no paper trail whatsoever. Similarly, as the San Jose Mercury News reported in a Jan. 23, 2003 editorial titled "Gee Whiz, Voter Fraud?" "In one Florida precinct last November, votes that were intended for the Democratic candidate for governor ended up for Gov. Jeb Bush, because of a misaligned touchscreen. How many votes were miscast before the mistake was found will never be known, because there was no paper audit." ("Misaligned" touchscreens also caused 18 known machines in Dallas to register Republican votes when Democratic screen-buttons were pushed in 2002: it's unknown how many others weren't noticed.)
Maybe it's true that the citizens of Georgia simply decided that incumbent Democratic Senator Max Cleland, a wildly popular war veteran, was, as Republican TV ads suggested, too unpatriotic to remain in the Senate, even though his Republican challenger, Saxby Chambliss, had sat out the Vietnam war with a medical deferment.
Maybe, in the final two days of the race, those voters who'd pledged themselves to Georgia's popular incumbent Governor Roy Barnes suddenly and inexplicably decided to switch to Republican challenger Sonny Perdue.
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