Thursday, November 18, 2004

 

Here It Comes: Cue The GOP Fog Machine

A new study out of UC Berkeley indicates that e-voting anomalies in Florida may have given Bush 130K-260K "phantom" votes in Br'er Jeb's briarpatch (i.e., his entire margin of "victory" in that state -- and thus, the Electoral College).

Three guesses which direction the Republicans will spin this:

(a) ad hominem attacks on the source ("This study is from 'Berserkely,' after all -- whatever they're smoking, I want some of it");

(b) misdirection/muddying the issues ("This is just playing with numbers -- 'lies, damnable lies, and statistics' -- not one single actual vote was examined, to come up with this 'what if?' scenario"); or

(c) the shut-up-and-salute, Zell-Miller rant ("Your guy lost. Bush won. Get over it!")

Extra credit if you can work some "forged documents" into the mix. The betting window is open . . .

posted by Michael 9:28 AM