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Howard Dean’s Hanging Chad
By Matt Margolis | January 10, 2004
While reasonable Americans know that George W. Bush won the 2000 election – despite liberal uproar over the contested Florida ballot situation subsequent nonpartisan analysis of the Florida ballots showed Bush remained victorious with three separate standards of recounting.
That’s now in the past.
Now, there’s a new election controversy brewing up… this time it’s centered on Howard Dean and the Iowa caucuses.
The Gephardt and Kerry camps are accusing Howard Dean of having out-of-state supporters pose as Iowans to participate in the caucuses on January 19th.
John Norris, Iowa state director of the Kerry campaign said in a letter to the Dean’s Iowa state director Jeanni Murray:
I’m distressed to learn that staffers from the Dean campaign are misrepresenting themselves as Iowa caucus-goers to gain advantage against our campaign. You should know this is not how we campaign in Iowa, and I demand that you take action to remove these staffers from the Dean campaign immediately.
Click here to read the rest of the letter.
If that’s not enough for Deanites to swallow, Gephardt’s campaign manager, Steve Murphy, also has contacted the Dean campaign, claiming awareness of their intent to tarnish the Iowa caucuses.
We have been friends a long time and it is with a heavy heart that I write this letter.
In the past several weeks, it has come to our attention that your campaign in Iowa is engaged in an effort to violate caucus rules and send out-of-state supporters to pose as Iowa residents and caucus in cities and towns across the state.
…[O]ne of your staff members has contacted us to confess that efforts to send non-Iowans to caucus is indeed a critical piece of your “perfect storm” strategy. Despite your campaign’s claim in the Newsweek story that action taken to organize out of state voters were those of a single “kid from Burlington,” we have learned that the problem is much deeper than that.
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An op-ed in yesterday’s New York Times … correctly points out that one doesn’t need “a valid voter registration card or proof of residency – any identification at all – to take part in Iowa’s caucuses.The necessary course of action for your campaign is clear. You must identify those in your campaign involved with this illegal endeavor and fire the individual or individuals organizing this effort within your campaign.
Perhaps this will be a bigger fiasco than Florida in 2000. With Dean’s lead slowly getting smaller – desperate situations require desperate measures. Is Dean desperate enough to resort to dirty tricks to help solidify his victory in Iowa?
I wouldn’t doubt it.
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January 10th, 2004 at 12:54 pm
This is insane!
Man, you Bush supporters amaze me. If Dean or Clark or God forbid, Clinton had proposed the cheap labor illegal immigration policy that Bush just did you would be screaming bloody murder and rightly so. With this policy Bush will singlehandedly undermine all the job growth of the last year and negate any progress in the war on terror. Yet you religiously support the proposal to flood America with millions more illegals who work for peanuts and keep our borders open to anyone who wants in. Why? Because it’s Bush, that’s why. I swear, if Bush wanted all little old ladies shot you’d put a bullet in Grandma Margolis’s head.
January 10th, 2004 at 1:13 pm
Jay, I this blog entry does not discuss the proposed immigration reform. If you want talk about something in this thread, talk about the issue written about in this blog entry.
January 12th, 2004 at 2:30 pm
Sorry Matt– your post rings hollow… again.
In no instance were all the votes counted. Remember the Supreme Court? Actually, I’m sure you would rather forget that… And you leave out the fact that Jeb had AT MINIMUM 20,000 LEGAL voters removed from the voter lists. Their only crime being that they had the same name as SOMEONE ELSE who had been convicted of a felony. Not to mention the infamous butterfly ballot.
By the way, I’d love to see your legal analysis of Bush v. Gore… Not that you could actually make heads or tails of it. But please square the equal protection arguments accepted by the court with earlier decisions authored by Scalia, Thomas, Rhenquist, Kennedy or O’ Connor on the same topic.
What’s that I hear?? Crickets?
I thought so.
January 12th, 2004 at 10:54 pm
Here Cole,
I wrote this because Democrat’s still can’t figure out how to vote legally.
The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the Carville side that day:
The counting all was o’er, but with Florida left in play,
With Dade County missing voters, and Palm Beach short by tens,
A pall-like silence fell upon the faces of the Dems.
A gagging few gave up the vote in deep despair. The rest
Clung to that hope which springs eternal in the human breast;
They thought, “If only AlGore gets some ballots in a pinch,
Or we’ll win in the courts somehow, with liberals on the bench.
So Boies defended AlGore, as did also Lawrence Tribe,
The former a leftist lawyer, the latter a judge well tried;
Yet upon the stricken multitude grim melancholy mounts,
For there seemed but little chance of AlGore getting his recounts.
But Boies let fly a lawsuit, to the wonderment of all,
And Tribe, still undeterred, spoke the letter of the law;
And when the dust had lifted, and dems saw what had occurred,
In court in Tallahassee, where the case it would get heard.
Then from five thousand throats and more there rose a lusty yell;
It rumbled through the valley, it rattled in the dell;
It pounded on the mountain and recoiled upon the ports,
For AlGore, mighty AlGore, was advancing in the courts.
There was ease in AlGore’s manner as he stepped into his place;
There was pride in AlGore’s bearing and a smile lit AlGore’s face.
And when, responding to the cheer, he offered a tax hike
No stranger in the crowd could doubt ’twas AlGore at the mic.
Ten thousand eyes were on him as he called the outcome sad.
Five thousand tongues applauded when he raged about the chads;
But Katherine Harris stood her ground, her hand upon her hip,
Defiance flashed in AlGore’s eye, a sneer curled AlGore’s lip.
And now the first recount deadline came hurtling toward the pair
And AlGore stood a-watching it in haughty grandeur there.
Close by the mighty candidate the deadline looming sped–
“That ain’t my style,” said AlGore. “Strike one!” the justice said.
From the benches, black with people, there went up a muffled roar,
Like the beating of the storm-waves on stern and distant shore;
“Kill her! Give us justice!” shouted some one on the stand;
And it’s likely they’d have killed her had not AlGore raised his hand.
With a smile of Christian charity great AlGore’s visage shone;
He stilled the rising tumult; he bade the case go on;
He signaled to the justice, and another deadline drew;
But AlGore still ignored it, and the justice said, “Strike two!”
“Fraud!” cried the maddened thousand, and echo answered “Fraud!”
But one scornful look from AlGore and the audience was awed.
They saw his face grow stern and cold, they say his muscles strain,
And they knew that AlGore wouldn’t let that deadline slip again.
The sneer has fled from AlGore’s lip, his teeth are clenched in dread;
He pounds with cruel violence his hand upon his head.
And nine justices hold the case, and now they strikes it down,
And now his ego shatters his face contorts into a frown.
Oh, finally in this favored land the courts have got it right;
The bands all play “Yellow Rose”, and all Bush hearts are light,
Republicans are laughing, their little children shout;
But there is no joy for Carville–great AlGore has struck out
January 13th, 2004 at 8:57 am
BWHAHAHAHA! Unbelievable! Cole is still bleating about 2000. YOU LOST! Get over it. There is absolutely nothing you can do about it. I can’t hear the crickets chirping because your endless pathetic whimpering is drowning them out.