Reply #48: Thanks for you work on elections [View All]

Kerry's cave in is a matter of some debate. There are two issues.

1) It was not his election to concede, it was the peoples. The people of Ohio, in particular, were put through the meat grinder. He could have challenged Ohio, raised consciousness exponentially on election fraud, voter suppression, etc. and then conceded. He didn't. He put expediency and his own future ahead of the obligation to the people (as we speak, I'm wearing my retro Kerry for President tee-shirt;)

2) Actually, there were numbers there to show likely fraud.

Did you know Bush won the election in the "big cities" (pop. over 500,000)?
Did you know Bush got 4.0 million new white voters in "big cities" (of 15 million total)?
Did you know that the "big cities" showed a 66% increase in turnout over 2000 resulting
in a massive improvement in the Bush vote compared to 2000?

Figure 5. Unprecedented! That’s the only word necessary to show the dichotomy
of 2004 – Bush losing actual votes in his base, rural America, while gaining an
exponential increase in big cities.

It's all here - URBAN LEGEND: THE 2004 ELECTION
Also, see http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0708/S00284.htm">Notes from the Underground: Why 2004 Election Matters More than Ever

Of course, the above is all total nonsense. It's what the Network Election Pool pollsters had to
do to justify the final official NEP exit poll showing a 3% Bush victory.

That poll also showed the rural segment down to 16% of the electorate from 23% in 2000 and 2.0
million less votes in the rural segment.

Thus, Bush lost his base, in a huge way, and won the election by increased performance, hugely increased, in the "big cities."

The real big city turnout was 16% from actual data available the day after the election at the latest.

The national exit poll was never altered and no mistake was ever admitted.

This would have been a huge clue had Kerry challenged Ohio, --HUGE-- , but he didn't and that's that.

He should have respected his voters. It would have been ground breaking and he would have had time
to spot the dead give away for fraud I just discussed.