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Concede NO. Fight YES. Win, we'll see.

Wed Nov 03, 2004 at 12:17:52 AM PDT

I cannot believe I'm up at 3AM on the East Coast again, 4 years to the day when I was up to 6AM waiting to find out who our President will be. Its just UNSANE.

But I, like every Kossite, I would imagine, have been fighting this fight since that day in 2000. I remember that night so vividly. The anger, the hope, the strength, and the fear. Gore (we) had to fight to from behind. Over the month of the ballot fight we seethed and fought, and then got screwed by partisan judges.

And we were given a mandateless President, glowing in his illegitimacy. And we know the rest.

Well deja vu. But this time K/E has come out fighting aggressively, and simply: Every vote counts, and count every vote.

And as someone said somewhere we've got Kerry's back and we know that he will fight until there is nothing more to fight about.
And we must not concede anything. We must fight the legal fight, the right to count every vote, and the PR fight. Fight any way possible.

No concessions. No framing of Bush as winner when he hasn't won. (even, as CNN is now saying, that Bush will declare victory tonight, without a Kerry concession)

It is our time to do this. We've fought for 4 years now, and its culminated in another electoral mess. If we lose the fight, so be it. At least we'll be able to live with ourselves.

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