Did Voters change?...or is it just that the elections were not stolen?

[RethugAssKicker]

According to Thom Hartmann the exit polls matched the election results.

Where as in 2000,2002 and 2004 much of the exit polls were far off!!

Ummmm... Sounds like the rethugs didn't steal the elections this time and let the true results show...

What else explains it?

[bobbie]

1. Dems got so many votes that the stolen and suppressed votes weren't enough

IMO.

[Atman]

2. How do you KNOW the election wasn't stolen?

Just because "we wouldn't do that?" Hmmm. Maybe the election was handed to us. I don't think so, I'm just trying to point out that with these machines we just don't know. We'll never know. We still have to fight to eliminate the black boxes and force the election industry to open up its code for inspection.

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[RethugAssKicker]

4. We know becuase the result MATCHES the Exit Polls

[Atman]

6. Good answer!

Precisely.

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[RubyDuby in GA]

3. I just told my dad the same thing yesterday

I really think that this time, knowing the heat that the voting machine companies have on them lately, they actually let this one go through like it should.

[shanti]

5. i think the voters changed

i heard time and again about how people were going to vote straight dem, and they had never voted dem in their lives. the groundswell was too great for diebold to work this time, AND we were WATCHING.

[Subdivisions]

7. Voters with a vengence! Put the tsunami wave on that ass!

We just totally overwhelmed any attempts at cheating, and there WAS cheating and irregularities going on everywhere, but especially in OHIO.

[napi21]

8. It's actually a combination of both.

The DRE's had become such a HUGH topic in the Headlines everywhere, and there were thousands of poll watchers this time, plus they knew what to look for!

The other part is that there was a very large turnout for this election! People of all Parties were upset with what thesingle controlled gov't has done over the past 6 years, and they were angry enough to make a change.

Were there still problemswith the voting process? Absolutely! I can only hope that the NEW Congress can enact some necessary changes to eliminate these problems in future elections. If the cures are reasonable, they should be able to get mutual concensus and get some fixes passed into law.

[Blue_In_AK]

9. Personally, I believe that George HAD to let the Democrats

win because it gives him the excuse he was looking for to get out of Iraq. As long as the Republicans were in power and he had made such a big deal about "staying the course," he couldn't back away, but now in this new spirit of "bipartisanship," he can fire Rummy and take a new direction. This way if conditions start improving in Iraq, he can take credit for cooperating with the Democrats, and if things don't work out, he can blame us.