Election Journal
May 8th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Haven’t had much to say about the Democratic primary race because the overall dynamics have remained mostly the same since Super Tuesday. Of course with yesterday’s results in North Carolina and Indiana things appear to be shifting rather significantly toward Obama. At least that seems to be the consensus amongst the pundits. Personally, I’m not comfortable proclaiming a presumptive nominee until they have locked down the requisite number of delegates.
What I’ve found more compelling is the fraud, cheating and dirty tricks exposed by the bloggers at Election Journal. Nothing terribly conspiratorial or widespread yet, just the jarring reality of our electoral process in action. I know we’d all like to think that we left these sorts of things behind us with the demise of Tammany Hall in the mid 20th century but it simply isn’t the case.
However, I’m hopeful that with the ability to capture video now so readily accessible the volunteers at sites like this will be able to bring transparency to the process and help improve the integrity of our elections by shining light on abuse.
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