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Manjoo's pretending to lament our broken electoral system while continuing to give the Republican political machine a clean bill of ethical, legal and moral health is about as convincing as Bill O'Reilly's insistence that he isn't right-wing. Farhad -- you STILL haven't addressed the issues of the ridiculous "paper weight" requirement; the ballot-shifting in the counting machinery; or most of Blackwell's many other shenanigans. You may be right that none of the GOP dirty tricks Kennedy discusses would have made enough of a difference to change the outcome of the election, but are you truly content to hold the credibility of our government to THAT pathetic standard? To say that we cannot ABSOLUTELY PROVE that Kerry would have won in the absence of Republican treachery is cold comfort for what is supposed to be a functioning democracy.
No, I'm not going to cancel my subscription to Salon -- it still provides enough good reporting and good writing from others to make it worth sticking around. But I'm disappointed that the editors continue to assign important political stories to a dittohead.
