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August 13, 2003
Bush | Karl Rove: Fla. 'Ground Zero' in 2004

From Yahoo / AP:

Rove, in an interview with editors and reporters of The News Herald of Panama City, said the campaign strategy in Florida would be a combination of "brotherly love" — a reference to the president's younger brother, Gov. Jeb Bush — and an effort to "register, identify and turn out our vote."

"This clearly is going to be ground zero," Rove said in the interview, published in Wednesday's editions. Rove has been vacationing in northwest Florida, where he has been making trips for the past 16 years.

"Register, identify and turn out our vote ..." Yes, and, with any luck, educate them in how to correctly complete a ballot as well.



Posted by Alan at August 13, 2003 05:39 PM | TrackBack
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add another comment to the large list of cliches that entered our lexicon in the last five years.

Posted by: gijoe at August 14, 2003 11:04 AM

The whole concept of “I was confused” was a smokescreen for what really happened in Florida. I don’t want to bore you with a long explanation so let me give you the short story: with a known number of votes outstanding, I should be able to acurately estimate the split of votes between 2 candidates. It could be 45/55 or 30/70, correct?

One thing that’s never mentioned in the national media. The republican “turnout” for George Bush in the contested Florida counties was the lowest in the nation. Put another way, people who registered as republicans voted less for Bush in these counties than anywhere else in the country. How is that possible?

Easy, and this explains why these people were still using paper ballots (they’ve been doing this for years and this time, they just got caught). You hide a little masonry tool up your sleeve and when you’re carrying the ballots back to ship them, you jam the tool through 20 or so ballots on the Gore slot. Those people who voted for someone else, Bush, Nader, Buchannah now appear to have double-voted. Those who voted for Gore appear unaffected. These double votes are clearly not counted. Sure, there may be some hanging chads when this is all done, but the end result is what most demo party hacks are looking for: a bunch of votes for Gore along with a bunch of contested votes.

No confusion here. They knew what they were doing. This explains the low republican turn-out for Bush. Their ballots were tampered with. Forty percent plus of the republican electorate did not stay home, they just had their vote negated by democratic party operatives. When the sun came up and the dems realized their ass was hanging out a mile, they bused in some senior citizens (democrats, of course) who were supposed to buttonhole reporters and tell them just how “confused” they were. BS.

This would all disappear with a voting machine. Not a digital one, either, just one of those clunky metal ones with the funky old curtains. That’s all they need, but po folks in Fla-dah, dey can’t ‘ford nuthin’ lak that. They’re still going to the bathroom out back. Right.

Posted by: torpedo_eight at August 16, 2003 11:29 PM

PS All of the double-votes involved a vote for Gore. There were no Nader-Buchannah double votes, there were no Bush-Nader double votes, there were no Bush-Buchannah votes.

Surprised?

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