Yeah, you do, since in fact I have no idea what those exhibits are.
Besides, I'm old enough to remember the election of 1960. When Republicans were asked why they didn't protest the results in Illinois, they answered that if the Dems had had to give back Illinois, they might have been forced to give back California. No political party has a lock on corruption in the United States.
My exhibit A in that assertion is my own state of residence, Illinois. This is actually basically a moderately conservative state, usually with a split between the parties in the Senate, statewide officials that are predominantly Republican, and at least one house of the State legislature that's Republican. Yet in this year of Republican triumph, the Democrats virtually swept the statewide offices, including capturing the Governor's seat for the first time in 26 years. Oh, my goodness! The Illinois Reflublicans lost all these elections! Did the Democrats steal the elections through chicanery and deceit?
No, the Illinois Reflublicans lost it because of corruption that's both wide and deep. The outgoing GOP Governor was perceived to have presided during his previous office as Secretary of State over an office that required it's employees to make substantial political contributions to the GOP and to the SoS in order to keep their jobs. It's been proved in court that in order to make those contributions, SoS employees sold truck drivers' licences to rais the necessary money. It's been proved in court that George Ryan's closest advisors knew about it. It's widely believed that George Ryan himself will be indicted once he leaves office. It's widely believed that when the whole thing started to brew up when George Ryan was running for Governor, the then-State's Attorney Ryan (no relation) helped cover up the nature and extent of the situation until George Ryan was safely elected; the same State's Attorney Ryan who was the GOP's candidate for Governor in this election.
Perhaps the GOP could have overcome this with a well-run campaign. But the Illinois Reflublicans were without a State Party Chairman for a full month because the chairman, also the Illinois House Speaker and Majority Leader, had to resign his chairmanship because he had been caught using state employees in his own office on state time and the state dime to run political campaigns.
O.K., so it's a ways from Illinois to Louisiana. And the Illinois Democrats' time will surely come, or at least that of the Cook County and Chicago Democrats. But from Illinois, the presumption that all Republicans are saints and all Democrats are corrupt thieves looks ridiculous.