Anonymous did not stop Rove from stealing the election.

[regnaD kciN]

26. The flaw in the argument I've heard...

...particularly from Thom Hartmann, is that, according to the Anonymous account, Rove and his minions set up vote-rigging operations in three specific states: Florida, Virginia, and Ohio. However, even if Rove had succeeded in flipping all three states, Obama still would have won, by an electoral-vote margin of 272 - 266. To successfully rig the election, Rove would have had to set up a similar operation in at least Colorado (and probably Nevada and maybe other states as a safety margin) as well. The fact that the "Anonymous" source doesn't mention anything about any other states than the "big three" suggests to me that either a) Rove couldn't do basic math, and spent a lot of time and money setting up an operation that, even if successful, could never have prevented the re-election of the President, or b) the whole story is being made up by someone who didn't bother to figure out that Obama would have won without those three states anyway, but simply included them because they were the key states according to lots of media pundits (who disregarded the math out of their contempt for "numbers geeks" like Nate Silver and Sam Wang). Guess which one of those two alternatives I would think most likely...