Reflexivity

Greg Palast
November 04, 2004
Bush won Ohio by 136,483 votes. Typically in the United States, about 3 percent of votes cast are voided-known as “spoilage” in election jargon-because the ballots cast are inconclusive. Palast’s investigation suggests that if Ohio’s discarded ballots were counted, Kerry would have won the state. Today,

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“A NASA photo expert’s analysis makes it clear: Bush is lying — he wore some kind of device in each of the three debates. So why won’t the media go near this story?” ~ passed on by Yasser.
Was Bush Wired? Sure Looks Like It

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The world responds…
sorryeverybody
~ From Carmen to the commdept listserv.

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Has anyone heard/seen anything else like this?

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Not sure who compiled this list; it came to me via Barbara Love on the social justice listserv (UMass). It includes prominent democrats, republicans, and pundits/preachers”:

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Now that I’m becoming a Jon Stewart watcher (!), last night he said it was the first time he really “got” the culture wars. It really is about developing a system that can accommodate difference – the most radical alterity – those whose vision of what human culture ought to be is different than ours – the red states.
I want to disagree with Stephen’s reactive insistence that we have to resort to the rhetoric of fear in order to sway those still “reachable” through various forms of communication. I want to contest his pronouncement, “Democracy is not possible.” (Viveca’s retort, “What about rhetoric and performance?” was a gem.)

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Micheal shares this wisdom from a friend:
“In the previous 17 Presidential election cycles, if the Washington Reskins won their game the weekend before the election, the incumbent party won on Tuesday. If they lost, the incumbents lost. The Skins looked pretty awful on offense today, as they have all season, but suddenly went ahead with only about 2 minutes left. Except that they didn’t; the refs called the play back with an extremely questionable penalty call and the Green Bay Packers pulled it out.”

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This could be interesting:
“here in seattle, we’ve organized a pretty interesting series of events that
will take place across the university of washington campus on the day before
the election (http://www.thedaybefore.org). what is interesting, to me at
least, is the diversity of supporters and the number of supporters (80 and
growing!). the idea is simple: there are 55,000 students, staff, and
faculty at UW and we think they should all vote. we expect some public
spectacles, so be sure to tune in on our web cam”
From David Silver of the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org
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This one really bothered me. Maybe cuz of Lisa’s class and a resultant heightened awareness. First, there was forcing all the Hispanics in Atlanta to prove – for the second time – that they were U.S. citizens and therefore eligble to vote. Now comes this:

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David sends this; its good with sound.

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