50-50

Ask a Bush supporter about national support for anything – the next election, the War in Iraq, continuing slavery to Saudi Arabia, nuclear powers, the price of gas – even about God – and you are likely to get the response :
"I think it's a flip of the coin. If I had to call 100 of my friends, I bet I would get a 50-50 split."
They’ll tell you the country is split 50-50 on everything.
The important split, though, is on this coming election.
From coast to coast they answer in droning tones – 50/50, 50/50.
It doesn’t make much difference in states that are clearly going for Kerry – but in others, especially in those with a history of election fraud and the potential for it – this 50/50 argument is a technique to soften up Americans to an eventual election battle to be decided by the court.
In my own town – which has 100% of the time gone for every hair-brained scheme this Administration has rolled out – including charter schools, deregulation of utilities and creative accounting of public money – there are 70,000 people. 70,000. Out of these we have a pretty hefty immigrant population made up of visiting workers. We have children and people that just don’t vote.
Average voting turnout for the town for the past 20 years or so has been around 5 thousand people.
This year, the Town Clerk – whose husband was on the losing end of the last election when he ran for Lieutenant Governor as a Republican – has sent out over 7,000 absentee ballots.
On top of that – this woman controls the voting rolls and has access to the driver’s license files for everyone in the state.
The driver’s license number is used to confirm that an absentee ballot is ‘real’.
On election day – voters don’t even have to provide identification – you just walk up – say your name and they give you a ballot.
See a problem?
Well – whether you do or not – there is one.
Each week we hear the same whine from local and State Republican officials – about how ‘close’ everything is – and how it’s all 50/50.
Well, that’s 100 percent hog wash.
The next time they try to pull this on you – why don’t you ask them for proof, and proof provided from something other than a poll paid for by the Republican Party.
The Republicans in many parts of this country are actively working to commit election fraud and to cheat the American people out of our right to choose our President and other elected officials.
How long will you allow them to continue to steal your future and frighten your children?
When will you take your country back?