With Brie, You Don't Need Buckeyes
This issue is horribly moot at this point, but I felt the need to address it anyway.
Some of the fringy (and, sadly, not so fringy) elements on the left were insistent for months after the election that voter fraud in Ohio gave Bush the election. Never mind that they'd still have that pesky 3 million vote margin to deal with ("President Select Kerry" has a nice ring to it, no?). But I digress.
The interesting thing is that there's reason to believe that fraud may have been present in Wisconsin, which narrowly went to Kerry. A few noteworthy Democrats were actually charged for their obstruction efforts. Bush's margin in Ohio was 118,599 votes. Kerry's margin in Wisconsin was a miniscule 11,384.
So let's put these two stories together: Bush won with 286 electoral votes. Ohio was worth 20 of those, so without it he's at 266. Let's assume the cries of fraud are not only legitimate, but significant enough to make up a nearly 120,000 vote deficit. If voter fraud in Wisconsin were to reveal a Bush win (far more likely, given that the margin was about one-tenth of the margin in Ohio), its 10 electoral votes would put him at 276; still enough to win.
So while election reform might be one of the left's pet issues, it may benefit their opponents on the right more.
UPDATE: Murdoc thinks the Bush and Kerry camps might have struck a deal.
» March 10th, 2005
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