Obama v. McCain: Moved from LB Forum

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Originally Posted by BombaySapphire3

the last poll I saw had quite astoundingly ..overseas people in the military supporting Obama 6to1!! not a good sign for gramps I'd say.

Maybe the overseas votes will come in with some defect and the R party will argue they are not to be counted. See http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag...54c0a9679c8b63 (2000 Election - "Under intense pressure from the Republicans, Florida officials accepted hundreds of overseas absentee ballots that failed to comply with state laws . . . . The flawed votes included ballots without postmarks, ballots postmarked after the election, ballots without witness signatures, ballots mailed from towns and cities within the United States and even ballots from voters who voted twice. All would have been disqualified had the state's election laws been strictly enforced . . . . The effectiveness of the Republican effort is demonstrated by striking disparities in how different counties treated ballots with similar defects. For instance, counties carried by Mr. Gore accepted 2 in 10 ballots that had no evidence they were mailed on or before Election Day. Counties carried by Mr. Bush accepted 6 in 10 of the same kinds of ballots. Bush counties were four times as likely as Gore counties to count ballots lacking witness signatures and addresses . . . . The unequal treatment of these ballots is at odds with statements by Bush campaign leaders and by the Florida secretary of state, Katherine Harris, that rules should be applied uniformly and certainly not changed in the middle of a contested election. It also conflicts with the equal protection guarantee that the United States Supreme Court invoked in December when it halted a statewide manual recount and effectively handed Florida to Mr. Bush.") Wouldn't the irony be staggering?

On topic - I like GOS.