Two questions for the Democratic Leadership

[Old and In the Way]

(1) Why didn't you subscribe to the exit polling data directly, instead of allowing the Republican corporate news media to feed it to you?

(2) Why aren't you conducting a massive national polling to see if this election was stolen, in a method independent of the Republican corporate media's control?

[shance]

1. Those are great questions.

Thanks for posting.

[damntexdem]

2. This assumes that the leadership believes in democracy.

They don't. Both major parties believe that the votes belong to them, not to the voters who voted. Had the Democratic Party believed in democracy, in 2000 it would have asked that ALL Florida votes from all counties be recounted -- and had its plea been heard, it would likely have won the election for Gore. But whether it would have won or lost in Florida 2000 -- just as in Ohio 2004 -- the principle should be that our votes are OUR votes and deserve to be counted fairly, not in the interests of one political party or another.

[Eloriel]

3. It also assumes the Party has "leaders" --

it ought to be painfully obvious by now that it really doesn't. A few hangers on, no real leaders within Congress or the party structure.