Reply #3: Do The same rules apply now?

[Vinnie From Indy]

If you believe a large chunk of the electorate, the electoral process in America is broken. In addition to Democrats being denied voting rights using good ol' fashioned techniques of ballot box allocation, dirty tricks and suppression, we now have "vapor balloting" to deal with. To firm up this fine souffle of ca-ca we also have to deal with a media so totally concentrated and co opted, our messages are not heard by a large chunk of Americans unless it comes spewing forth from the corpulent faces on hate radio and cable news.

The Democrats need to fight on every level and concentrate on fair voting and media reform/infrastructure. They also need to incubate the "buy blue" philosophy of punishing corporations that attempt to subvert our Democracy by subsidizing the networks that bring us our daily serving of lies, deceit and misdirection.