Reply #21: I heard Bush was told he would lose early in the evening Nov2

[madison2000]

by Karen Hughes.

Doubtless everyone who knows Rove knew that some kind of shenanigans were going on, but probably no details. I mean, how could they have known whether they were cheating enough to win the election? They couldn't be too obvious, too different from the polls. It was a close race. And even in states where some rigging went on, they may not have won. Take Wisconsin, where Kerry's win was by 15000 votes. It was a heavy turnout in the cities, and the lead for Kerry should have been more.

They could only hope they cheated just enough to win and be plausible, and that's exactly what happened.