Bush fought clean

Kerry and the MSM fought dirty

Besides the constant stream of biased reporting from the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the LA Times, and the major networks, we had deliberate attempts to destroy the President through fake memos and bogus stories about lost explosives.

Come the campaign proper, the Democrats played hard. We had AFL-CIO intimidation and vandalization of Bush campaign offices.

Then there were the Soros financed campaigns to enrol any Bush-hater as a voter. Voter registration fraud was rampant and Democrat judges even tried to stop GOP attempts to challenge bogus registrations.

As part of the election preparations, the Democrats tried to prepare the battleground for a campaign in the courts by preemptively claiming minorities were being disenfranchised. Daily Kos tries to spin these fraud attempts away and blame the evil Republicans.

On the day of the election early exit polling data was leaked to left wing bloggers and Drudge that showed Kerry running away with the election in a landslide. The direction was the same in every swing state and the margins were sometimes ludicrous. This may well have been an attempt to suppress the Republican vote, in the same way as the early call of Florida for Gore in 2000 caused Republican voters in the Florida panhandle to leave the lines at polling booths and go home without voting. Power Line seems to agree:

But that leaves open the broader question of what was going on with the exit polls. They were ridiculously far off the mark. Dick Morris, for one, thinks that properly conducted exit polling could never be so inaccurate, that these exit poll data were clearly fraudulent, and that an investigation should be conducted. It seems likely that Democrats ran the exit polling process, and deliberately generated bad data to create momentum for the Kerry campaign. This much, I think is a reasonable inference. It is also reasonable to suspect that the same people who created the bad data leaked it to Democratic bloggers as part of a strategy of depressing Republican turnout. The bloggers, however, were innocent participants in the deception--if, in fact, it was a deception.

I suppose the irony is that the Kerry camp got taken in too; their early elation turned into depression when actual counts revealed the truth.

Can you imagine what the margin would have been if the media had reported fairly, and only US citizens who were legally registered had voted? Bush won a dirty election against all predicted odds.

Update on the 2000 Election:

Jim Miller points to solid evidence that the Democrats stole about 15,000 Bush votes in Palm Beach county. The 2004 result provides further evidence.

Yesterday, it occurred to me that a comparison between this year's election results and the 2000 election results could give us one more bit of evidence that some Democratic operative(s) in Palm Beach almost stole the 2000 presidential election. One thing that struck me in 2000 is that Bush's percentage of the vote in the county was lower than the percentage of Republicans registered there. That's extraordinary in a close election. Was the same true this year? No. According to the data I unloaded from the office of the Florida Secretary of State, 32 percent of the voters in Palm Beach registered as Republicans, and 45 percent registered as Democrats. Bush's 39 percent of the vote this year is just what one would expect from those registration numbers — and much higher than it was in 2000.

Is anyone surprised that the votes were stolen? Or that the MSM could care less?

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