Saturday, November 11, 2006

the latest conspiracy theory...

Love a good conspiracy theory (from Attytood via Raw). The latest:
The exit polls that leaked out in the late afternoon ended up matching the final results almost exactly -- nothing like what happened in those other Bush-era elections. The razor-close races all broke late for the Democrats, unlike Florida in 2000 or Ohio in 2004...and when that happened, there were no major charges of fraud, no "Brooks Brothers Riot," and no demand for a recount. The last two losers -- Conrad Burns of Montana and George Allen of Virginia -- went quietly into the autumn night, despite relatively close vote tallies. There appear to be no other Rovian stunts, like calling in the GOP's chits with Joe Lieberman to get him to caucus with the Senate Republicans. And there was no October surprise, not in Iran and not back home.

3 comments:

Naahm Deplume said...

razor thin wins across the board does not a mandate make. Still, I will be beating up on our newly elected Dems to get us the hell out of Iraq now.

Naahm Deplume said...

I liked the Hunter Thompson references, esp. after recently re-reading Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, '72. He was quite the conspiracy theorist.

Barking Up Trees said...

i read that one... was introduced to thompson's works freshman year at umass...

started w/"great shark hunt", which included excerpts of F&L '72 as well as others...