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Monday, October 6, 2008 12:00 AM

John McCain's unprecedentedly ugly speech today

The increasingly petty and ugly attacks on Barack Obama by a desperate, dying movement are a microcosm of the last eight years.

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  • Monday, October 6, 2008 02:49 PM

    Expect civil disorder in November.

    They're going to keep turning it up.

    Remember the proven voter suppression and the very likely out-and-out fraud in the last two elections? And that was when they were being careful. They might well be feeling that there is "nothing to lose" this time and go all out.

    Expect clashes between people wanting to vote and the police; expect riots one way or the other when the results are released.

    I believe that a real possibility is a slim McCain/Impaliner victory on paper but with such obvious and pervasive voter fraud that the country simply refuses to accept it. Anything might happen after that, anything at all.

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