Comments on: Cry Hewitt and let slip the hounds of ‘wha?’

By: James Wimberley

James Wimberley — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 09:40:13 +0000

Hewitt writes: “the enemy was willing to kill randomly in the run-up to the vote in order to demoralize an American public.” It was so peaceful in Baghdad before it looked as if Allen might lose and the orders went out from Terror Central.

By: floopmeister

floopmeister — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 02:51:37 +0000

Voter bias—wasn’t Diebold supposed to fix that?

I think this wins best election comment on the internets.

By: John Holbo

John Holbo — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 00:47:37 +0000

Sorry, Jet, it seems a bit unfair to pick on you today, but 2004 was an aberration. Exit polls have historically been accurate – this year, for example. If Hewitt was saying that the future would obviously be like 2004 then that is merely the form his irrationality took, not any sort of evidence of secret rationality on his part.

By: blogenfreude

blogenfreude — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 23:27:38 +0000

The blame game begins.

By: rea

rea — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 17:04:23 +0000

“the frak’n 2004 Presidential election where Kerry exit poll’d 6.5% better than the actual vote count”

You mean the 2004 election where Kerry polled 6.5% better than the OFFICIAL vote count, don’t you?

By: jet

jet — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 15:01:48 +0000

Gee, could the exit poll issue come from something important that recently occurred? Maybe it was something even news worthy that most people read about? Perhaps it was the frak’n 2004 Presidential election where Kerry exit poll’d 6.5% better than the actual vote count.

By: Anderson

Anderson — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 14:31:52 +0000

Voter bias—wasn’t Diebold supposed to fix that?

By: chris y

chris y — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 11:56:24 +0000

Thank you Steve. Thought so.

By: Steve LaBonne

Steve LaBonne — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 11:28:38 +0000

And what will a Democratic Congress do to stop it happenning again?

Nothing. This has been another edition of simple answers to simple questions. (With apologies to Atrios.)

By: chris y

chris y — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 11:13:21 +0000

Seriously, when our American cousins manage to unglue themselves from the ceiling, would somebody like to consider this: If this sort of thing had been reported by observers monitoring an election in DR Congo or Venezuela, how would the conduct of that election have been reported in the MSM, and what would be the verdict on the political health of that country? Are a lot of people going to go to prison? If not, why not? And what will a Democratic Congress do to stop it happenning again?

By: ~~~~

~~~~ — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 11:03:44 +0000

“If the Dems win, the election was ‘biased’!”

Is it so much to ask, for the electorate to be even-handed?

By: abb1

abb1 — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 10:05:46 +0000

…at least the Soviet Union has collapsed

Hey, what about the perilous Islamofascist menace? If he doesn’t recognize the threat he should get himself a one-way ticket to friggin Eurabia…

By: joe o

joe o — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 08:53:56 +0000

I sure missed that second update. Unfortunately, I need to use the hugh hewlett’s time machine to tell Al Gore about 9/11 and Iraq so I will be unable to prevent my 3:48 am post.

By: joe o

joe o — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 08:48:51 +0000

Sure, it stings. But it is far from a wipe-out, and if you had told me in 1986 that 20 years later there would be a Republican president facing a 20 seat Democratic majority in the House and a two seat Democratic majority in the Senate—and that the Soviet Union had collapsed—I’d have cheered long and loud.

I like how he slips in the collapse of the soviet union to prevent his 20 year younger self from merely cheering a smaller democratic majority in the house and senate than in 1986. With hugh hewlett’s time machine and a judicious post-facto selection of ponies, ponies for everybody.

Sure, it stings. But it is far from a wipe-out, and if you had told me in 1986 that 20 years later there would be a Republican president facing a 20 seat Democratic majority in the House and a two seat Democratic majority in the Senate—and the names of the winners of the next twenty Super Bowls—I’d have cheered long and loud.

By: Timothy

Timothy — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 08:46:42 +0000

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