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• Monday, June 5, 2006 12:01 AM

  Oh Salon, if only...

  Manjoo writes:

  "One has to wonder what, after all of this, Kennedy might have brought to the debate. There could have been an earnest exploration of the issues in order to finally shed some light on the problems we face in elections, and a call to urgently begin repairing our electoral machinery. Voting reforms are forever on the backburner in Congress; even the 2000 election did little to prompt improvements. If only someone with Kennedy's stature would outline this need."

  Subsitute Manjoo for Kennedy and it sounds about right, don't you think?

  The deluge of letters on Manjoo's pat dismissal shows the very real consternation out here, unreported, unexamined by any MSM, and now Salon too.

  That's quality disservice.

  If the dwindling minority of the country who support Bush and the Republican stranglehold on our government - including back-burning voting reforms - manage to sweep Congress again and beat another of the "sorry" Democratic presidential candidates, we'll just have to chalk it up to faith-based miracles, won't we? Because we will have strolled right past the moutain of small smoking guns, and consigned ourselves to the hall of mirrors that is, rightly or wrongly, the blogosphere.

  It's the candidate's fault. It's the polls' fault. It's our fault for not trying harder. We'll get it right next time, or the next, or the next. No one can control the voting machines. Can't happen here. Just the Ukraine.

  Nice job, Salon, if only.

  Thanks for delivering a choice tidbit to the right-wing dream machine. And if you cynically think the article is a success because it's generated so much response - mission accomplished.

  —dwg Read dwg's other letters
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