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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Philosopher who wrote (35980)	6/5/2005 11:47:12 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 90947

It used to be that it didn't matter which party poll workers and election officers belonged to, you could count on them to be honest and objective in their jobs. No more. Could you? Or could they just get away with it? The graveyard vote in Chicago didn't start in 2004. Tammany Hall rigged elections. They went to jail (finally) over a century ago. Is this new or has the power of the news media to find and report on it simply ncreased. Remember, the Freedom of Information Act is fairly new. Before that, gov't bureaucracies could do as they pleased and almost never get caught. The only times they got caught were when they were too obvious or too greedy. In fact, the Republican party in Washington is very, very upset with Secretary of State Reed (who collects election data and I think enforces election laws) because although he's a Republican he wasn't more strongly on their side. He has been the one bright spot in this process, actually doing his job in a nonpartisan manner. Rare. Every state has a Sec'y of State. All of them are charged with seeing the elections are honest. Yet scandal is rare in all 50 states. Maybe THAT ought to be the scandal. I'd move the current problems back to Roe v Wade. The most egregiouus case of legislation from the bench I know of. It took the Xian Right a surprisingly long time to form and start fighting. I expected faster action, but it was not until 1980 that they were able to elect a President- -Reagan. Unfortunately for them, Reagan said he would stay out of the abortion issue and meant it. They were disappointed in him. George Bush I was next and also could not get the decision reversed. Then Clintom won in 1992 on economic issues. And had Monicagate. The lack of morality in the WH enraged the Xian Right even more and GWB won in 2000- -by a USSC decision, the first US election decided that way. The burst of the bubble and then Iraq enraged the left. That's where we a now- -a house divided.