"Weakness attracts those who are waiting to do America harm..."
from Bush-Cheney campaign ad "Wolves"
The Ohio election is finally behind us. Now that Bush has been sworn in, I have stopped actively following events in Ohio. Like millions of other Americans, I still believe that in 2004, our democracy was raped in broad daylight. And not just by Bush and his henchmen. It was a bipartisan gang-bang.
Although we focused on the state of Ohio, it could have been another state. The election in New Mexico, for example, was a cesspool of dirty tricks. At first, I was perplexed that Democratic Governor Bill Richardson resolutely stonewalled the recount effort in his state even after personal appeals by Kerry and McAuliffe to allow it. But people on the ground in New Mexico tell me there's plenty of evidence pointing to fraud in down-ticket races. Those are the ones that allegedly could embarrass Richardson. Well, that's all behind us now. We'll continue to work hard for electoral reform but now the battleground is Congress and our own districts, not Ohio.
Or so it seemed until January 18th.
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