Many of us who had watched the 2004 race closely could see that the momentum had dramatically turned following the third and last presidential debate between Bush and his Democratic opponent Senator John Kerry. The naturally cocky Bush looked increasingly frightened while Democratic votes were sought by trotting out oddballs such as Zell Miller and Ed Koch, who would be lucky to influence voters in their immediate families.
Just as Congressman John Conyers, Bev Harris, and others documented the fraud in Ohio that robbed Kerry of an Electoral College majority, investigative journalist Robert Parry uncovered Republican vote fraud in Florida's I-4 voting corridor, covering the greater Orlando and Daytona Beach areas.
There was no forthcoming explanation on why the Bush vote surged from 2000 in a year where his totals were dropping or remaining the same within Florida.
One weak as well as erroneous argument was raised in the Washington Post that Bush won Florida by a successful targeting of Christian Evangelicals. As Parry and others refuted, that group held sway in Northern Florida and the vote in that area indicated no such gains from Christian Evangelicals or anywhere else.
As for that Bush "capital"- based on a 3-point popular vote victory, that has also been thoroughly exposed for those willing to accept the truth.
The book "Was the 2004 Presidential Election Stolen"- by Steven E. Freeman and Joel Bleifuss provides evidence beyond reasonable doubt that the later election was stolen as egregiously as was its predecessor four years earlier. Kerry was as clearly defrauded by Republican democracy destroyers as had been Al Gore before him.
Steven Freeman, a highly respected professor at the University of Pennsylvania and leading authority in Social System Science, crunched the numbers and concluded that it is mathematically impossible, given current technology, for a 6-point differential between the 51-48 edge that exit polling provided for Kerry over Bush and the identical figures with a reversal of the candidates.
Freeman concluded that it was mathematically impossible, given current technology, to produce an error so large that in every instance, when battleground states were polled on Election Day, the differences between those figures and the announced official results in every state showed gains for Bush and losses for Kerry.
Another factor showed up as well, one that many were able to deduce before studies revealed it. The factor inflating the Bush 6-point improvement between exit polling and final announced results was consistent upward movement in the incumbent's figures in southern stronghold states.
What could be simpler than padding the totals in states where Bush was the clear winner? To do so in those states would not only be easier to accomplish than elsewhere in the nation. Such an effort was less likely to be uncovered absent intensive investigation.
So Fleischer and your fellow Republican right cohorts, you have gall to be crying about election theft given the tawdry recent past of your own corruption-riddled party.
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