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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Skywatcher who wrote (35977)	1/21/2005 1:16:12 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 173976

Sore loser "John Kerry's vote against Condoleezza Rice is the latest evidence that he is responding to his crushing election defeat by adopting a sore-loser persona," James Taranto writes in his Best of the Web Today column at www.Opinion Journal.com. "Other evidence: A statement on Kerry's campaign Web site demands that Bush fire Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. And of course there's his 'I have a bellyache' speech in which he complained that there weren't enough voting machines in Ohio Democratic precincts," Mr. Taranto said. "Like Kerry's Vietnam-era 'war crimes' calumnies, that last complaint would appear to be a canard, as the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports: 'A Plain Dealer analysis shows that, in [Ohio's] Cuyahoga County at least, the elections board distributed machines equally to city and suburban polling locations. ... " 'Before the Nov. 2 election, the elections board allotted each Cleveland precinct one machine for every 117 registered voters within its boundaries — the same ratio of machines that suburban precincts received. ... " 'And in the end, the busiest precincts — when measured by the number of ballots cast per machine — were actually in the suburbs, not Cleveland, according to a Plain Dealer analysis of records from the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections.' "

To: Skywatcher who wrote (35977)	1/21/2005 1:21:42 PM
From: geode00	Respond to of 173976

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