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Edited on Sun Jun-18-06 06:42 PM by IndyOp
I am dismayed to encounter - at least once every couple of weeks - people who believe the corporate media lies and omissions regarding AL GORE'S WIN IN 2000. Yes, I want Gore to run in 2008. But more importantly, I just want the truth to be known! I want us all to have the self-discipline to speak the truth even if it differs from the common beliefs. Al Gore won, hence, Al Gore is a winner.Gore's VictoryBy Robert Parry -- November 12, 2001 < http://www.consortiumnews.com/2001/111201a.html>So Al Gore was the choice of Florida’s voters -- whether one counts hanging chads or dimpled chads. That was the core finding of the eight news organizations that conducted a review of disputed Florida ballots. By any chad measure, Gore won.Gore won even if one doesn’t count the 15,000-25,000 votes that USA Today estimated Gore lost because of illegally designed “butterfly ballots,” or the hundreds of predominantly African-American voters who were falsely identified by the state as felons and turned away from the polls. Gore won even if there’s no adjustment for George W. Bush’s windfall of about 290 votes from improperly counted military absentee ballots where lax standards were applied to Republican counties and strict standards to Democratic ones, a violation of fairness reported earlier by the Washington Post and the New York Times. Put differently, George W. Bush was not the choice of Florida’s voters anymore than he was the choice of the American people who cast a half million more ballots for Gore than Bush nationwide. Media Matters: Barone repeated 2000 Florida recount falsehood< http://mediamatters.org/items/200502220004>U.S. News & World Report senior writer and principal coauthor of The Almanac of American Politics Michael Barone repeated the false assertion that former Vice President Al Gore would have lost the 2000 presidential election under any recount scenario. From Barone's February 21 nationally syndicated column:
In other words, Gore sought new counts only in areas where he was likely to gain votes and would not take the risk of a statewide hand count, where those gains might be offset by others for George W. Bush.
We know now that, thanks to the news media consortium that recounted ballots in every Florida county, recounting under any method and any criterion they tested would not have overturned Bush's exceedingly thin plurality. In fact, the 2001 news media consortium study of the disputed ballots in the 2000 Florida recount found that there were at least four recount scenarios under which Gore would have won the state of Florida. A November 12, 2001, Washington Post article reported on the findings of the study: "If Gore had found a way to trigger a statewide recount of all disputed ballots, or if the courts had required it, the result likely would have been different. An examination of uncounted ballots throughout Florida found enough where voter intent was clear to give Gore the narrowest of margins."The news media consortium that sponsored the study, which was conducted by the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center, included the Associated Press, The New York Times, and CNN, as well as The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post Company, and the Tribune Company (which owns the Chicago Tribune, the Orlando Sentinel, and the South Florida Sun-Sentinel). Other conservatives who have repeated this false claim include Wall Street Journal op-ed columnist and author John Fund, FOX News host Bill O'Reilly, syndicated radio host Glenn Beck, and The Wall Street Journal editorial page. NORC Florida Ballots Project - Read the original report! http://www.norc.uchicago.edu/fl/index.asp
We, of the Democratic Party, come from a long line of winners. :kick: :kick: :kick:
We need to do MUCH better at inhibiting, detecting, and fighting back against election theft, now. Eh? (Election theft via voter suppression, old-fashioned ballot box stuffing, and computer fraud...)
Remarks of Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (D-IL)TAKE BACK AMERICA CONFERENCE - June 14, 2006 To win in 2006, we need to...
First, we must not allow the Republicans to steal the election-again.
1) Stealing: I apologize for not taking seriously enough the allegations that the 2004 election was stolen. After reading Bobby Kennedy's article in Rolling Stone, "Was the 2004 Election Stolen?", I am convinced that the only answer is yes. He documents how 357,000 Ohio voters, the vast majority Democrats, "were prevented from casting ballots or did not have their votes counted…more than enough to shift the results." Watch for the DCCC to take some very public steps in the near future to ward off a repeat performance. In the meantime, there needs to be a citizens' effort starting now to assess the machines, the ballots, the registration process within each and every election jurisdiction in each and every swing district and state, in the case of Senate races. Where the situation looks perilous, go to the media, raise a stink, demand changes. This is a great project for the many of you who have been diligently working to guarantee fair and accurate elections.2) GOTV: "Intensity equals turnout." ....The Republicans learned about grassroots organizing from us and learned it well. We must count on their willingness and capacity to drag out their voters.... But we know how to do mobilization. It's grassroots, door-to-door campaigns that enable us to beat them on the ground. Air strikes - radio and TV, just get you so far; the personal contact drives home the point. As great as job as we did in 2004, we need to do it more and better. 3) PERSUASION: In 2004, the Republicans left no constituency untouched.... For the first time, they won the majority of Catholics. Why did we lose Catholics? They had a Catholic strategy, and we didn't. 4) We have to travel. If you live in a safe Democratic district like mine, you need to consider every candidate in every winnable district as our candidate - at least adopt one or more of those candidates as your own. 5) Finally, we all need to resist, as hard as I know it is at times, griping about the Democrats, one, because it's takes time away from the real work of defeating the Republicans, and two because it's counterproductive, demoralizing the very people we need to be engaged and enthusiastic. http://www.bradblog.com/?p=2963
...Speaking of computer fraud have you seen the report about voting machine company documents that suggest that computer fraud was used to subtract 16,000 votes from Gore in FLA 2000 at a critical moment during the vote counting?
Chins Up. Fists Up. Ready to Kick? :kick: :kick: :kick:
On edit: Add stuff, change emphasis, same message. :hi:
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