So, with all the back and forth about "It was fixed"  "No it wasn't!"  "The polls!  The polls!", there seems to be some movement to recount ballots in New Hampshire.  Small state, fairly easily doable.

Let's suppose it happens.  So here's the deal: are all of those currently screaming about election fixing willing to publicly admit they were wrong if a recount happens...and the original results are right?

That also works in reverse, of course.

Oh, you might pay lip service to the concept, but really, admit it, you really don't think about it too much.  We're the people that you overlook.  And to be fair for a lot of things there's no particular reason to pay that much attention to us.  But we're there.  And we're watching you.

So the diaries have already started making noise about the arrests being a ploy to pump up Harper's poll ratings, or done at the behest of the US government...or something.  That the whole thing sounds too ridiculous to possibly be real.

Well, some data that people should consider after the flip.

A story came up on CBC.ca today that, I think, shows the difference between the media in Canada and the US.

http://www.cbc.ca/...

Now the important part of this story isn't the story, it's how the story is written.  Notice that there's no "quest for objectivity" by seeking someone to argue the point: the writer does it.

More below.