Election Day Is Over But The Contest Is Not

[lovuian]

http://www.wcpo.com/news/2004/local/12/05/ohio_votes.html

Reported by: A.P.
Web produced by: Neil Relyea
Photographed by: 9News
12/5/2004 11:54:01 AM
While the rest of the country focuses on Christmas shopping and NBA slugfests, Ohio is still trying to decide who was elected president.

Two major challenges are expected to unfold tomorrow.

First, lawyers representing voters upset about problems at the ballot Election Day plan to contest the results with the Ohio Supreme Court. They will cite long lines, a shortage of machines and a pattern of problems in predominantly black neighborhoods.

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I love how the newspapers are belittling the recount and yet are reporting it!!!

[intheflow]

1. Media is hedging their bets in case a recount still gives it to *.

But they have to report it, because what if Kerry actually wins? Very tricky tightrope for the MSM to walk.

[Up2Late]

2. The News media SUCKS these days!

I swear, I feel like I'm living in the USSR, circ. 1975, right now. Thank God (or Alla, or Jehovah) for the Internet, and that we don't have to depend on Short Wave Radio to get the real news.

[leftchick]

3. A Russian journalist noted not long ago....

upon observing ameriKan media firsthand how like Soviet propaganda it is. He noted the huge difference between the two is that the Russians knew what they read and saw was propaganda.

[Moderator]

4. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1046612