In chatting with many friends left-of-center lately, a single theme has started to repeat itself, over and over again: There’s no point in voting. The Republicans, the story goes, have the election tied up. Even if Dubya appeared on Fox announcing his conversion to Islam with bin Laden next to him, Diebold has the election preprogrammed with compromised voting machines, and Bush would still walk home with 75% of the vote. Stay at home, and complain on your blog about the stolen election, appears to be the message.
I’m not quite so gone on conspiracy theories to think that this very rumor is a result of RNC plants, but the self-fulfiling nature of it is obvious. Let’s be clear: Diebold trickery or no, if everyone who thinks that Bush is a moron stays home, he will walk home with 75% of the vote. So, don’t do that, OK?
posted 11:43