No Evidence for Black-Box Voting Problems

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Thursday November 04, 2004 · 9:33 AM PST

2004/11/04 · 09:33

I've done a preliminary analysis of the Florida results based on data available from http://election.dos.state.fl.us/index.html and I've not seen a hint of evidence of foul-play. The Republicans just plain brought out more voters. Read below the fold for pictures and details.

I think this suggests that we should let the BlackBoxVoting.org people follow up on this, but as a community Kossians need to move on to why liberalism itself is so weak right now. Read More

Win Back Red States: Take On Gay Marriage

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Thursday November 04, 2004 · 5:49 AM PST

2004/11/04 · 05:49

One of the reasons that democrats have been careful to avoid real liberal issues in campaigns is that liberalism itself has been on the retreat for the last three decades. With the increased numbers of evangelical Christian churchgoers, the Republicans have been able to stand behind Christian morality and point to liberals as outside of the "mainstream." Since 1968, liberals have had a difficult time talking about their points of view, and, as a result of fallen back on issues like health care and social security-very important but not truly LIBERAL issues. They are POPULIST issues. Liberalism, on the other hand, the drive to increasing tolerance, correcting racial and class injustices and reducing our impact on the environment and the rest of the world, has found no voice since Jimmy Carter. If we want to see the country deviate from its conservative path, we've got to remind people why liberalism matters. And the first place that needs to happen is with gay marriage (or, more appropriately for some, gay unions). Read More

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