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The presumptive article of Robert Kennedy Jr. was quite successfully deflated by Mr. Farhad Manjoo and I thank him for it. He put into a concise article what I have been saying about it since first glancing over it when a friend first linked me to it.
In short the Kennedy article is poorly written, it makes a vast number of claims that are purely inaccurate, and it fails to bring anything new to the table. I was quite astonished to find that this article was published in 2006 since it seems so much like the same half baked theories I heard in the Winter of 2004 and in the Spring of 2005.
While there is need for election reform in certain areas of this country there was no vast conspiracy to put Bush in office. By all popular and substaniated claims Kerry could not have feasibly carried Ohio or any of the other lost states.
If there are any lessons to learn from the 2004 election it is that we should not trust exit pollsters until the counts are in and that in some areas voting reforms should be made to deal with problems of lost registration and long lines.
I guess Mr. Kennedy could not find a way to milk four pages out of a message that simple and non-partisan.
