[mburbank]

The media are not going to do shit. Dan Rather's stumble has them all scared shit that they might get over eager and go with something they'd get nailed for.

The Republican message machine will paint anyone who even toys with doubt as sour grapes gripers at best and insane at worst.

Look, no matter what you think of the election results, any decent American should reject a system in which close to 1/3 of the country's votes CAN NOT BE RECOUNTED. The fact that the major player in e-voting tech is Diebold a HUGE Bush contributor is secondary.

How can you have a democracy in which a huge chunk of votes, a deciding chunk of votes, MUST BE TAKEN ON FAITH? Make an argument for me, anyone, on why this is not a crisis?

I'm not hopeless. I think massive resistance is possible and can grow over time. McGovern lost in a landslide that made this W win look pathetic, and yet it was not long at all before Nixon and much of what he stood for were gone.

But I do think Democracy in America, while it is not over, is deffinitely on hold.

It's not that I think this election was stolen. It's that I can't know, no one can no, and that fact is by design. It's that as a people we seem to be allright with that.