Ivan the Category Four Terrible

At a certain point, if you are say Governor of Florida, you might begin to serious wonder if God is not too thrilled with the idea of all-electronic voting machines.

BTW I urge my comrades to not despair about the post-convention poll damage - this is an utterly winnable, undetermined election, and the increasingly unprincipled Republicans count on liberal hand-wringing to do their best damage for them. I am most annoyed that some progressive pundits were falling fast into this, yet two of the last three winning presidents, like W, were behind at exactly this point.

Of course we might lose. Which is why you work harder to win, and why I'm psyching myself up to paper the precinct before Monday. They're unethical, arrogant, psychotically greedy, sadistic, lying SOBs. So let's destroy them.


The convention bounce, which I underestimated the same way I didn't think that Zell Miller was going to be neo-fascist pinch-hitting, is deflating rapidly already (The tight Zogby poll probably underestimated Bush a bit with a 2 point lead, but that was clearly a peak. Rasmusson, for example, is back in standard near-tie mode; we'll have a better idea next week). The gruesome milestone in Iraq, and FINALLY the mainstream media noticing that our enemies in Iraq seem to be running the place, shamlessly disrespecting our magnificent victory, are being processed. It will be difficult to not conclude that not only did we lie and bungle our way in, but under Bush's polyanna direction we are begining to lose.

Hard hits on Bush's guard absence are coming from Texans for Truth, (chortle) and if you've seen Kerry recently, he is en fuego. The debates are going to be the big word, their influence I think larger than the conventions, and for once, Kerry and big Ds like Ann Lewis are not misunderestimating Bush's ability to persuade.