Well, I guess that old John Effing Kerry is just going to have to be blown out of the water come election day in a way that would embarrass even Dukakis.
Democrats say they learned from the Florida vote, and from the Supreme Court rulings that arose from it, that the most important legal battles are those fought before Election Day…
Yeah – but has Kerry, or Hillary or Edwards, or Gore for that matter, come out for reform of the Electoral College? If they have, I have not heard them say so. So – if there is another squeaker (and I doubt that) and they begin to bitch about the awful result of a popular vote winner failing to be elected – they’ll have no legitimate right to complain.
My sense of a legal issue not raised it he decision in Bush v. Gore was that of the procedural due process rights of the campaign itself. Doesn’t Bush-Cheney 2000 (or 2004 for that matter) have a right to expect that the law, as it existed on 8:00 am of Election Day would be enforced, and not some ever-changing standard that evolves and mutates after the close of the polling stations?
I’m not asserting that the rights of the campaigns exceed those of the voters, although they may equal those of the voters. The campaigns after all are the aggregation of the work and contributions of very large numbers of Americans. If they are formed as corporations – even corporations have rights.
I’m contacting Bush-Cheney 2004 in GA to volunteer. This is too important not to act.