Reply #45: It may have seemed worse

[Senator]

...in '04 than it was in '00, but there was a real difference for the better.

It was the non-statistical folks, a small subset of them, that succeeded in getting Sen. Boxer to join the formal objection. And even among those who "moved on," there was a recognition of system failure. They saw the 10-hour poll tax lines on TV. They didn't need the Civil Right Commission to say it was unlawfully racist again.

Many accepted "defeat," but not that things were OK. Even the repubs were uncelebratory.

You're quite right about the uncertainly about next time. But even on that front there are some good signs. The unauditable machines are on the run. Gov. Dean has "staffed" the entire country and one of their jobs will be election watchdogs. Election "reform" has finally made it onto the Dems national agenda. Instead of joking about it like Gore, Kerry has acknowledged the '04 theft (albeit with a public recant).

Perhaps most importantly though, the essence of the "dean people" continues to expand and succeed. The euphemedia fumbles to describe the new "noisy" part of the Dem/left base with inaccurate terms like netroots, progressive grassroots, objectionist left, and others. But they know we're here and we've achieved "not negligable" status.

(It's probably a good thing that they can't quite get a handle on these people who remain determined to take their party and country back from those who limit their world view to the confines of the beltway bubble.)

The victories they've had against us are short-term efforts, stop gaps. No one seriously argues anymore that the bushkid actually won Florida and/or the nation in 2000. That illegitimacy is commonly accepted. The same will be true for 2004. It may be already. Our record of truth is there for the long haul. Their record of belief is a temporary house of cards.

And we could reach a tipping point at any time. A point where all our efforts start rolling downhill, energized by the momentum of their moral ascendency. Any one of these new scandals could be the last straw: the ports, the spying, even the Pat Tillman story.

We may have broken their grip already. We only see the effects some time after it happens.

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