If this is true, why didn't they also put the fix in for John McCain? How could they be so forgetful?
Perhaps, since the Republican political juggernaut was fomenting a massive amount of resentment for wars, torture, and the handouts of bailout bonuses to the banking industry, they wanted to let the Democrats (almost) take over. (You know like in the cartoons when the bird hands the dynamite stick with a burning fuse to the coyote?) The conspiracy corner residents, who think that the electronic voting machines permit the Republicans to micro-manage results, might want to take note of the fact that the Democrats--thanks to Joe Lieberman--may not have a filibuster-proof majority after all. Did Rove dream up an ??almost, but not quite ? style ??majority ? ?
So, if the Republicans can sabotage the Obama program for four years, they can then run a campaign emphasizing that Bush's successor did not accomplish anything and therefore he needs replacement.
If this premise is valid, won't the electronic voting machines be used to further cripple the Democratic majorities in the House and Senate, next year?
If, like President Bill Clinton, President Barack Obama has to constantly battle a solid wall of recalcitrant Republican oppositionists, he would go into 2012 with an emaciated accomplishments list, which would set the stage for an ??elect someone who will get something done ? type Republican campaign against him.
The mainstream press has ignored the issue of the electronic voting machines' reliability factor and so it seems likely they would greet a 2010 Republican ??surge ? with a shrug and a ??the voters confounded the pollsters again ? type of spin-cover story.
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