In all my years reading Salon every day, I have never been so disappointed and appalled at anything you have published. I can't believe that Salon would support the disenfranchisement of not only the voters of Ohio, but of the millions who twice had our votes invalidated by the criminal actions of the Republican machine. When one vote is blocked, all votes are blocked. Bush should never have served a day, and should never have been re-appointed, as the overwhelming body of evidence clearly and unambiguously proves that BOTH elections were stolen.

I hope that Salon will allow a writer of stature the opportunity to carefully rebut Mr. Manjoo's sloppy and inaccurate piece, as it is a blight on the paper's journalistic track record.

A sad day for all your subscibers and supporters, and a dark day for Salon.

Kenneth Woods

There are opinion pieces and then there are trash-monger pieces. To compare Obama's election tactics with those of the election-stealing W is obscene and sick. I never thought I'd see Salon sink so low.

If it wasn't for Glenn Greenwald, I'd cancel my membership right this minute.

A disgrace

At the first moment of electoral hope in 8 years, I hate to rain on fellow American progressive's parade, but one only has to look at the history of New Labour in the UK since 1997 to see the dangers facing us from the possible new Democratic majority.

New Labour have been as cozy with big business and and the war mongering right as any pary in the world, while systematically dismantling key elements of what was once a fee educational system through the so-called top-up scheme. They've also methodically built the most all-seeing police state in the world- Britain is now the most surveiled society on earth, and an average person walking in London is video and audio taped hundreds of times per day. New Labour has raised the cost of public transport, not lowered it, and installed highly regressive increases in road fees and energy taxes which disproportionately punish working people, while creating a tax-free bracket for billionaire Russian oligarchs moving to London.

Glenn is absolutely right that the Democrats, if they win (and I'm not putting anything past the GOP, including martial law between now and the election) will need to be pressured constantly or they will betray their base as surely as the GOP always panders to theirs.

KW