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Farhad Manjoo has been covering this story with the same carved in stone mind-set since the first reports of election malfeasance rolled in on election day 11/2/04. It seems his mind was made up from day one and that no amount of evidence or new revelations since has caused him the slightest consternation or reason to reexamine any of his happy conclusions. It's nice to be absolutely certain that the GOP was not responsible for the overwhelming number of discrepancies seeming to only favor candidate Bush.
It's good to know that only in America are exit polls useless and constantly wrong (whoops! I forgot- they were NOT wrong on Election Day 2000 in Florida were they Farhad?). I guess the reason they were quietly turned off mid-day on Election Day 2002- because of "computer problems"- also makes perfect sense to him. And the fact that they were all wrong again in 2004, coincidentally where it counted the most, only goes to further prove his theory that there’s no there there?
So just what are the odds that virtually every voting anomaly everywhere always benefited Bush? I guess it's just more coincidence that every screw-up or error pretty much benefited the party that we now know has been responsible over at least the last five years for more outright thievery and corruption than any other time in American history. No, we should just set that fact aside and assume Bush got extremely lucky- twice.
Salon, don't you think it's time to replace a true-believer in GOP honesty- Farhad Manjoo- with someone a little less certain, and a little more skeptical of the circumstances surrounding these last THREE elections? Someone who is lot more willing to look at the evidence rather than just use it as an exercise in preconceived and poorly written dismissals of the whole matter.
One gets the sense that even if we had video-taped evidence of election fraud, Farhad would still be dismissive. He is that certain of the GOP's intrinsic goodness- making him at minimum, given recent history, a very inadequate reporter for this story.
