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In reply to the discussion: The reality about "vote flipping" machines in NC and elsewhere [View all]KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)precincts, while in others the wait was almost non-existant.
My wife started believing a conspiracy theory after 2004 that the Dems and Republicans get together behind closed doors and make a"gentleman's bargain" as to who will have power. She based this on Kerry's astonishing admission in Colorado Springs, CO that he would have still voted to invade Iraq even had he known that Iraq did not have WMDs. Kerry's sudden concession on election night 2004 became another foundation stone in this theory. Myself, I was a Deaniac from the beginning and knew it was all over when Kerry made his campaign theme "vote for me so I can run the war better" and not "this war is fucking wrong." (Kerry was probably right about that but it wouldn't have mattered in the end who was running things; the Iraqi Resistance in Anbar would still have fought us to a stalemate.)