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Saturday, June 3, 2006 12:00 AM

Was the 2004 election stolen? No.

In Rolling Stone, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. argues that new evidence proves that Bush stole the election. But the evidence he cites isn't new and his argument is filled with distortions and blatant omissions.

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  • Sunday, June 4, 2006 11:01 AM

    Two wrongs.

    RFK, Jr.'s sloppy research isn't offset by Manjoo's sloppy rebuttal.

    One need not outright "steal" an election. As has been shown, one need only make life difficult, annoying, even a little punishing to supress voter turnout. I'm sure there was malice in Ohio but also the usual run of stupidity that helped supress the Kerry vote. That was helped by the less than stirring Kerry campaign.

    It's too bad that Salon didn't think through the flaws in Kennedy's reporting skills before it sponsored, along with the Rolling Stone, the autisim "investigation" he produced.

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