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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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  • Saturday, June 3, 2006 01:09 AM

    something smells here

    Like the author's reasoning or not, the tone sure has the odor of a vehement anti-conspiracist conspiracist.

    One thing stand out starkly: Why are *European* exit polls' reliabilty being used to claim for ours? Um, let's look at OUR record of exit polling and judge OUR elections by those, NOT by that of the Europeans.

    Things like this make the writer look mighty like a person whose mind is made up before the research, which in turn churns out exactly the data the author is looking for, rather than all of the data necessary to render a judgement. I'd love to see what data the author squelched-- I have students who do the same thing for their projects, and the whole method just stinks.

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