Election 2006: How to Detect Fraud
by Jeff Davis
There’s been a flurry of news articles in the last two weeks, which have left many Americans thoroughly confused. Less than two weeks ago, opinion polls came out showing Democrats with a crushing double-digit lead. Resentment over the Iraq War and Bush’s “Stay the Course” policy was at an all time high. The Mark Foley Gay sex scandal and the apparent cover-up by high ranking Republicans didn’t help either. Despite all this, the neocons have been digging in their heels and insisting that they can still hold both the House and the Senate. A few recent headlines are now claiming that the Republicans are “closing the gap” and may hold onto one or both houses. Is this merely a ploy to keep people watching the election coverage or is there anything to this?
The unfortunate part of the 2006 election is that most Americans support Republican issues such as reducing taxes, traditional moral values and limited government while the neocons who control the GOP don’t. The neocons have hijacked the Republican Party, shredded the Constitution at an alarming rate, passed a bill approving torture and they plan to keep us in Iraq forever. The neocons have alienated moderate voters and disgusted traditional conservatives to the point, where many of them will stay home on election day or vote for a third party. The neocons are certain to cheat in the 2006 election. The big question is how much cheating can the neocons get away with? A number of states have added paper trails to their electronic voting machines since 2004, but it’s not clear how much fraud is still possible.
Here’s how we can tell whether or not the November 7th elections are rigged: if U. S. Senator Rick Santorum (R.-Pa) gets re-elected, we’ll know the fix is in. Rick Santorum is the ultimate Congressional neocon. He never met a war against a Muslim nation he didn’t like. He has praised that braying neocon jackass Sean Hannity as “our greatest American.” He compares putting a Santorum for Senate bumper sticker on your car as equivalent to “fighting for your country in Iraq or Afghanistan.” He babbles about the illegal and criminally bungled invasion of Iraq as “retaliation for 9/11,” even though most neocons now quietly admit that there was no connection of any kind. He has continued to back the disastrous Iraq invasion to the hilt even though many of his Congressional colleagues in the GOP as well as an increasing number of both retired and active duty generals are saying out loud what most of America already know full well, that the whole thing has become a catastrophe and that George W. Bush is a moron.
Nor does Santorum do anything for his constituents in Pennsylvania. In the latest Survey USA Poll, Santorum came dead last among the 100 U. S. Senators. Santorum voted against an attempt to fund and restore Amtrak and get America’s railroads rolling again, thus saving on imported fossil fuel costs.
Where Santorum does ride high is in his approval by the Israeli lobby. Santorum’s political base in this Rust Belt state lies not with a Christian white working class such as most Southern states still boast, but with the high-tech yuppies who have gentrified Pittsburgh and with the massively powerful Jewish community in Philadelphia and its environs. His Democratic opponent, Bob Casey, is known to be a strong family man with a clean record and who has openly opposed abortion. Millions of dollars of Jewish money has been rushed into Pennsylvania to help defeat Casey and get the Zionists’ sock puppet Santorum back into the Senate, and yet all the polls still put Santorum trailing by a large margin.
The New York Times reported that Santorum’s campaign is taking on an hysterical tinge. “Assailing Mr. Casey’s national security credentials, the Santorum campaign has run a television commercial that shows a mushroom cloud, missiles streaking through the air and the faces of North Korean, Iranian and terrorist leaders. It concludes, ‘We just can’t take a chance on Bob Casey.’” Santorum is also trotting out the ridiculous canard of comparing America’s current situation with World War Two. “Mr. Santorum began the final stretch of his campaign with a series of speeches on ‘The Gathering Storm,’ offering a dark, Churchillian vision of the threats facing the United States — like the threats, he said, that faced England in the years leading up to World War II.” The Times also records Santorum’s personal arrogance: “He [Santorum] speaks of Mr. Casey with barely disguised disdain, as if he cannot imagine the possibility of losing to a Democrat…” (Dammit, that Senate seat is MINE! How dare you little people threaten my power!)
And yet every poll, every prediction, every man on the street interview indicates that voters in Pennsylvania have just plain had it with Rick Santorum, Rick Santorum’s arrogance and incompetence, Rick Santorum’s toadying to Israel, and above all Rick Santorum’s stupid war. If any race can be predicted with certainty on Tuesday, it is that Rick Santorum will lose and lose big to Bob Casey on Tuesday.
But what if he doesn’t?
The situation in Pennsylvania is so clear to all observers on all sides of the political spectrum that if Rick Santorum retains his seat, it can almost be taken as prima facie evidence of vote fraud on the part of the Republicans. There seems to be simply no way that Santorum can win re-election if the votes are counted honestly. So on Tuesday night, watch the Pennsylvania Senate race closely. If Rick Santorum wins, then we’ll know the little Republican gremlins of Ohio 2004 are at work once again.