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Bob Herbert of The New York Times, appeared on Morning Joe Tuesday, expressing a concern, his confidence tempered by a belief that the remaining swing voters will break for McCain.
Should McCain come from behind, the "explanations" are already in place. Aside from the legitimate swing vote question, other not so kosher tactics raise cause for concern: the ironically twisted Republican cries of Obama-led ACORN fraud, the easy explanation that the Bradley effect turns out to be as before and the all-powerful mobilization of the Religious Right, courtesy of the Palin pick. These are the things we'll hear about should the unthinkable happen while the underlying realities of voter suppression, and disinformation, massive voter purges and inner city scare ploys are pushed from view, leaving us with the 2008 version of how can this be?
Even more ominous are the electronic voting machine hackers whose hands have been on the very chips and megabytes of our democracy for many years. From Clint Curtis' forgotten congressional testimony of the 2000 election, http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/145...,
to the recently detailed deposition given by IT expert and insider Stephen Spoonamore to Ohio attorney Cliff Arnebeck regarding Bush/McCain electronic voting machine operative, Mike Connell, http://www.velvetrevolution.us/prose...,
it is naïve and dangerous not to expect similar shenanigans next Tuesday.
Everything works together as in a beautifully scripted, if Machiavellian plot, making it plausible for a stunned electorate to question themselves . . .the Obama groundswell we've all seen, the unprecedented crowds he drew, the landslide-like leads he carried, if in the end, Americans can be convinced that they were simply not ready to elect a black man. It is precisely because the consequences of a Republican loss are so dire to the party currently in power that they we should know that they might be willing to do whatever it takes to win. The set-up is in place. If, one week from today we find ourselves looking at the unthinkable,: a McCain win, instead of the 2000 and 2004 version of dismay, we must demand a comprehensive examination of the vote, and do so loudly and with one voice, for we know with every fiber in our collective beings that this one belongs to us.
