So the GOP Was Going to Steal It, Eh?

Being that today is the fifth day of November in the two thousand and eighth day of the common era it is the day after elections in America and I would now like to direct your attention to an article by Greg Palast and widely circulated after it got into the Rolling Stone on October 17th 2008 entitled It's Already Stolen. Is it still up? If not here is a bit from the heart of the 'expose':

Republican Secretaries of State of swing-state Colorado have quietly purged one in six names from their voter rolls.

Over several months, the GOP politicos in Colorado stonewalled every attempt by Rolling Stone to get an answer to the massive purge - ten times the average state's rate of removal.

While Obama dreams of riding to the White House on a wave of new voters, more then 2.7 million have had their registrations REJECTED under new procedures signed into law by George Bush.

As the results show Barack Obama winning Colorado's nine electoral votes by about 52.5% to 45.9% (at this time) I'm pretty confident that the prediction of a stolen election was dead wrong. For one thing for it to have been right there would need to be more than 335,000 people who could not vote yesterday or during the long early voting period. That would give Obama another 14% margin. You really think there are that many Democrats in Colorado who didn't get to vote and they're not all blogging about it and calling their paper? Bull. To put it bluntly. Secondly the results were only 1% lower than the final Pollster result of a 7.6% spread. That's well inside the margin of error. Heck, the actual final pollster composite was 51.9% for Obama rather than the 52.5% he got, obviously a few of the undecideds broke for him.

I think today the liberals who promulgated this fear mongering should hang their heads in shame at least here in Colorado. We'll see about the rest of the country, but I expect that despite the deplorable shenanigans that could make a difference in tight races we had an okay election on the whole. My message is that this election has not been rigged or stolen by anyone on the national level and people who say otherwise do a disservice to our democracy.