Yet another study of the voting patterns in the latest round of the presidential election process shows something just a little strange. Those three million extra votes the Republicans collected didn't come from their traditional base.
Margin of Terror or Theft
Yet another study of the voting patterns in the latest round of the presidential election process shows something just a little strange. Those three million extra votes the Republicans collected didn't come from their traditional base. No, the support of states that usually vote red stayed about the same. It was in the states that normally vote Democratic, and where the most new Democrats signed on in the last four years, that the extra votes were found.
And as if it weren't strange enough that a whole bunch of people who just registered as Democrats then went out and voted Republican, most of them did so in states that just happen to have the largest number of electoral college votes.
How come? Well, the pundits would have us believe that the terrorists did it--pushed all those new Democrats, afraid that the Democrat won't be able to keep them safe, into the Republican's column.
On the other hand, perhaps what we should consider is that those three million votes, a little more than one out of a hundred, instead of landing in the usual discard pile of somewhere between 4 and 25 out of a hundred ballots as “spoilage,” just happened to migrate from Kerry to Bush, increasing the latter's margin by at least two.
One or two votes in a hundred are going to be very hard to trace, even with a paper trail. Even harder to prove that, like that penny you can't account for, it didn't just go missing, but was actually taken by someone. But, with democracy hanging in the ballance, we've got to at least try. Hand count the ballots. Ready. Get set. Go!