Reply #45: Should we banish discussion of 2004 vote fraud until real evidence is found? [View All]

[Leopolds Ghost]

After all, the I-hate-Kerry people -- who are now supporting all three
major candidates -- can't make up their minds if he won or not, if the
election is stolen or not, and people keep pointing out the lack of a
smoking gun that Kerry could have used. There is no real evidence --
and by "real evidence" I mean real evidence. Isn't all such
election reform therefore disruptive?

Remember I always advocate fairness even when it's politically unpopular.

One of the reasons our societal growth is stunted is that most political
speech is no longer done in the public realm, it is done in the private
realm, on privately-owned blogs that are perforce self-censoring.

DU is one of the better blogs, certainly for scope, and a good place to
cry on the shoulder of a like-minded person in times of trial...
at least for me.

(although I must say I've seen fascinatingly articulate responses on
mainstream media-based blogs that are both highly educated, well-written,
include non-monomaniacal analyses of controversial issues like this one...
include a range of political views... and many of the "liberal posters"
are to the left of your average DUer, amazingly enough.
Many highly-educated liberals I talk to seem to gravitate to open
forums. They seem jaded to the idea of partisanship, much less
primary candidate partisanship. Like NH voters, maybe they just want
to feel free to change their minds, they don't believe in "loyalty"
to a candidate. Just some constructive feedback,) --LG