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Some machines, however, had bigger issues: “Voter’s machine defaulted to Republican candidate each time she voted for a Democrat,” one report from Cobb County, Georgia reads. “She told the precinct supervisor about the problem. It continued to happen 7 times.” Similar incidents occurred in reasonably large numbers—some voters tried to push a button for Kerry or Bush and found that the X would appear next to the name of the other candidate...
Seventeen percent of the ballots cast in Tuesday’s election were by voters ages 18-29. Seventeen percent. This was not the expected banner year for youth voter turnout. Across the nation right now, politically active young people, whether Democrat or Republican, are mourning together our repeated failure to take up our demographic’s latent power. There are nearly 59 million United States citizens between the ages of 20 and 30, so why did only 35 percent of us exercise our constitutional rights on Tuesday...
This thinking undoubtedly originated with the fact that George W. Bush was the undisputed victor. Unlike in 2000, the Democrats cannot convince themselves that their policies were the best ones for America and that a few hanging chads prevented them from seizing the reins of government. They cannot claim that the election was stolen. On Nov. 2, Democrats believed they were right, and that America would agree. Then, as polling stations closed, and news stations reported the facts, it became obvious that the dream of a Democrat in the White House would have to wait at least four more years...
...what we stand for. If Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said at the Republican National Convention that “you don’t have to agree with everything the Republican Party does to vote Republican” then you shouldn’t have to agree with everything the Democratic Party does to vote Democrat...
Isaacs said that although she is a Democrat, she is a moral person with “traditional liberal values,” including tolerance. She wanted to see religious morals removed from the election arena...