We were up by 4 percent in the Ohio Exit polls. I want to know what happened, I want a battle plan, and I want to fight. So what do I do? I go looking around on the blogs, I want see our strategy for exposing the fraud, counting the votes, and winning this election. What do I find? Plans to make our message better in 2006? What The Fuck!!!! We can create a better message in 2006, and they'll find better ways to rig the voting boothes, same with 2008, and it will continue that way until we stop them.
I want to fight it now. I don't care if Kerry doesn't want Ohio's electoral votes, this election wasn't about Kerry, it was about us, and I want Kerry to have those 20 electoral votes whether he wants them or not. Don't you? Seriously, what is the worst that could happen if we fight? We'll loose the senate in 2006? The House? We can't get any lower, for the last 3 elections, we've brought a feather to a gun fight. The GOP brings an AK-47, and it doesn't matter if their candidate has lost his mind, insane, or killed 100,000 civilians, they still win. I'm sick of it. We can't continue to be the nice sweet party until they've destroyed the whole country, and then maybe protest.
I'm sure there are hundreds of thousands of people at this site alone that would drop everything to fight for this election. We need the leaders of the Democratic blogs to give us a battle plan. We're not going to get a battle plan anywhere else. I don't care what the Kerry campaign wants. I don't care what the D.N.C. wants, and I don't care what the mainstream media is reporting, I want every voting machine checked, every ballot carefully counted, every instance of fraud looked into, and a battle plan for how we're going to win this election.
Think about if it was Bush who was behind in Ohio by 100,000 votes the morning after election day. If this was the other way around do you think the Republicans would be working on their message the day after election day? No they would be making baseless accusations, and repeating them till there fact, they would have declared victory, and they'd have 10 G.O.P. lawyers, and 500 G.O.P. volunteers carefully checking every ballot. Then they'd sue to throw out the votes they don't like. By the end of it they would have won, and we would look like the corrupt ones, and we'd probably form a plan to make ourselves look less corrupt for the next election!
It's not over until the electors vote, there are still votes that haven't been counted, and I want the will of the people to be heard. Michigan wasn't a real do or die swing state, our exit polls had Kerry up by 3. Kerry won by 3. Ohio was a do or die swing state. Their exit polls had Kerry up by 4. Kerry lost by 2. Something happened, and we need a battle plan for what were going to do about it.
Talking about our values, being nicer, and hoping the GOP doesn't cheat next election is a good way to loose 5 house seate, 3 senate seats, a couple governorships and the presidency in 2008. Fighting, and stoping the cheating now is the only way we can win this and future elections.
Update [2004-11-5 3:38:33 by GWBblows]: Finally something, a diary about voting fraud in Ohio placed on the front page.