Even the GOP establishment--which had long decided that Mitt Romney was their best hope to win back the White House in 2012 among those currently running --could not overcome the intent of the voters as transparently expressed on publicly hand-counted, hand-marked paper ballots. Nobody ever had to rest their faith on a single source, like a political party or a candidate or a voting machine company --though the media was all too happy to do so before moving on to New Hampshire. There was always a transparent, overseeable, system of checks and balances -just as our Constitution envisions for the nation's governance as a whole -there to assure that self-governance had a fighting chance to be more than a bumper sticker slogan hauled out when convenient, ignored when not.
Because the Iowa GOP allowed the people to oversee the counting of their own election, right then and there |