Nothing--facts, reports or pleas--will change the perception among blacks that they weren't counted in 2000. This visceral hatred of Bush among blacks is the one thing I fear more than anything come November. In states like Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida, a huge black turnout could well give Kerry the election.
Whoa man are you trying to intimidate me into not voting!
If a person in a Police Uniform rings my doorbell with a gun on their hip, I would invite him in and offer him coffee/soda etc.
"Truth" and "Proof" are part of the evil plot, don't you see? It's interesting that the state was overrun with reporters and they could not find these instances which the Civil Rights Commission then reported. If ever there was a time and place when reporters would have found any shred of evidence of actual vote suppression or discrimination against voters, it was Florida after the 2000 election, and yet they could not find such instances. Repeatedly, they were rumored to have happened and then could not be substantiated. Do we see here a corrupt bureaucracy and fundraising apparatus in need of a myth to perpetuate and sustain itself?
Reminds me of a Mark Twain quote;
"The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a man only tells them with all his might."
and another that may or may not have originated with Twain;
"A lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
Blacks hated Reagan even more even more from what I remember, but Reagan still won.