I have to laugh whenever the Dems talk about their views on voting. in 2000, the mantra was "Let Every Vote Count", but now in 2008, in their OWN PRIMARIES, what we hear is anything but. The Democrats have their own equivalent of the Electoral College in their "Super Delegates" who have been universally acknowledged as being the deciding factors in this primary.
As a confirming flip of the finger to their pretensions, consider the Democrat Texas Primary which Hillary (HRC) won by 100k votes and 3% over Barrak (BHO) [I'm being consistant on my identifiers, unlike MSM]. Texas gets 228 delegates to Denver of which 35 are 'Super' and as such uncommitted by the primary vote. Therefore it would appear by letting "Every Vote Count", HRC should get 51.5% (99) of the 193 committed delegates, right? Well, according to the "Real Cear Politics" delegate counts, it is BHO that has 99 and HRC has 94. If you read the Wikipedia entry cited above, you will see a scheme that makes the US Electoral College look simple.
So Shales and all of the rest of these simple-minded deniers of history can take their prejudices and go sit with the 9/11 truthers. A pox on thier heads and my plaintive cry from the heart, why have we let the libs get control of the MSM???
Don’t forget the 2004 Washington State Governors race where Democrats kept “finding” “misplaced ballots” in Liberal King County, until Christine Gregoire was declared the winner (it took three tries).
A commonly heard phrase here then was, “That’s payback for 2000.”
my plaintive cry from the heart, "why have we let the libs get control of the MSM???"
If it's any consolation, "we" didn't. At least unless you are a lot older than I am - and I'm retired.The Right to Know presents my thesis on why journalism is "liberal."
The thirtieth reply on that thread discusses William Safire's take on the transformation of the meaning of the word "liberal" from its traditional pro-freedom meaning (still current outside the U.S.) to the socialist, anti-freedom meaning Americans are familiar with and contemptuous of.