Friday, November 05, 2004

It's still taking time to sink in but GWBush won again. This time in a fair and outright way, winning both the electoral and the popular vote.
Or did he??
Check this article by the Greg Palast, author of The best democracy money can buy and the feature on the illegal and deceitful way how Bush won Florida back in 2000. What he writes is definitely worth considering.
There's also the twin issues of malfunctioning or inaccurate (or rigged) vote results with electronic machines which seemed to favor GWBush and the discrepancy between exit polls (polls taken of voters after voting on who they voted for) and actual results.

However it can't be overlooked that John Kerry was not the ideal leader candidate, and that his party and platform were weak in many ways, including in Ohio. If Bush's victory is a legitimate one, then the Democratic party of the US must be prepared to stand up more(as well as all Americans who don't support Bush) and adopt a better strategy and attitude towards its people.