Chart shows relationship between 2004 electoral vote result and voter IQ.
Topic: presidential election
I know that Daveycorn is all about researching hoaxes without going to Snopes.com, but I simply can't be bothered.

When I got this chart titled US Election 2004: Results listed by IQ from about a dozen different people I smelled an "urban legend."

Fool Me Twice

Claim: Chart shows relationship between 2004 electoral vote result and voter IQ.

Status: False.

Origins: Some pranks are so good they keep working over and over again.

Back in November 2002, someone (using the name Robert Calvert) created and posted to a USENET newsgroup a phony chart which purportedly showed the average IQ per state in the U.S., along with the average income and a column indicating how that state voted in the 2000 presidential election. The gag was that all the states that voted for Vice-President Al Gore in the 2000 presidential election were clustered at the top of the IQ scale, while all the states that voted for then-Texas Governor George W. Bush were clustered at the bottom.

Snopes.com read the rest here.

Don't Mourn, Organize
Topic: presidential election
"I don't really want to analyze the results of the lection. I don't think we'll ever know if Bush actually won or if the voting machines built by the company whose CEO promised to "deliver [Ohio's] electoral votes to the President" in the election were rigged. I don't like the strange doublethink involved in saying that the exit polls were completely off in showing a Kerry lead, but then citing the same exit polls in saying that "moral issues" brought out an army of freedom hating Christians who want big government to enforce their religious views on abortion and homosexuality...

"It's time too ask yourself why you wanted to see Kerry win. Was it an end in itself, or merely a means to an end? Did you want to see Kerry win just because you like him as a person, or because you want better health care, better jobs, or an end to the war in Iraq?

"If it's the former, I don't know what to tell you. If it's the latter, then you need to simply keep fighting..."

(DavidGrenier.com more here.)

Bush Unbound
Topic: presidential election
"The Democrats surprised themselves at their ability to raise tens of millions of dollars, inspire hundreds of thousands of activists, spawn extensive new organizations, attract icons of popular culture and present themselves as unified around a centrist position. Expectations were not dashed. Turnout vastly increased among African-Americans and Hispanics. More than 60 percent of the newly registered voters went for John Kerry. Those concerned about the economy voted overwhelmingly for him; so did those citing the war in Iraq as an issue. But the surge of the Democrats was more than matched.

"Using the White House as a machine of centripetal force, Rove spread fear and fused its elements. Fear of the besieging terrorist, appearing in Bush campaign TV ads as the shifty eyes of a swarthy man or a pack of wolves, was joined with fear of the besieging queer. Bush's announcement that he favored a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage was underscored by referendums against it in 11 states, including Ohio -- all of which won. (more here.)

Let Them Eat Myth...
Topic: presidential election
I'm wondering if denying poor people a mythology - even if we know it to be false - is such a great idea. It's honest, and has more integrity, but it's a bad strategy for eliciting their support. Poor people would rather vote for the myth that they'll be taken care of - even if, in reality, it means being further fleeced by the wealthy, and sending their children off to die in war. (more: see Douglas Rushkoff)

What The Hell?
Topic: presidential election
"Moral values" is a semantic spook, you cannot put moral values in your pocket. "Moral values" will not sit in your stomach in place of food and it will not pay the bills.

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Politics is, aside from suckling, the most primitive of human behaviors. A "politician" is someone that understands the dominance/submissive game and uses it to influence the behavior of those around him, hopefully to get rich or to get laid. Occassionally in life there are isolated acts that those of us outside of the "politics" game can use to improve our existence (supporting a candidate that will improve health care or working conditions, for example). If there is to be any freedom, any justice in this world survival needs must be met. But this compromise is not a full scale endorsement of the political system!

It has become apparent here at 1:30 AM EST that both Presidential candidates are doing pretty much the same, votes-wise. Living in the United States, no matter what your beliefs are there is a very good chance that at least every other person that you meet today will think you're a fucking idiot!

"The human position is no longer tenable," William S. Burroughs used to say. What we are experiencing is the chaos that persists and will only increase as American society discovers that it is no longer needed, at least in its present form.

If Kerry were to win we could expect, for starters: an increasingly vicious police state on our hands, an economic situation that is at best racist (and at worst, genocidal), and an ugly war in Iraq that is not going anywhere, anytime soon. This is the same thing we can expect from Bush, of course.

This recent election is only the backdrop for our play, however: one cannot allow one's life to be defined by the despair of their age (which is a constant in any age, I fear). All animals have strong biological drives towards nesting, congesting and digesting (sleep, fucking and food). We also have brain programming that can create feelings of love, transcendance, beauty, mercy...

Top Ten President Bush Explanations For The Bulge In His Jacket
Topic: presidential election
from Late Night With David Letterman...

10. "It's connected to an earpiece so Cheney can feed me answers--crap, I wasn't supposed to say that."

9. "It's a device that shocks me every time I mispronounce a word."
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Hail Kerry! Hail Satan!
Topic: presidential election
The year 1966 was a banner year for the Prince of Darkness. Approaching the dog days of summer in that momentous year, Anton LaVey, a decadent, ex-circus entertainer, also a Jew, formally founded the Church of Satan in San Francisco. The date: June 6, 1966, or 6-6-66.

Across the nation, in New England at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, a young man spent the year 1966 in his somber new residence, the Tomb. The Tomb is a gothic, mausoleum-like stone building just off campus, adjacent to an ancient cemetery complete with Masonic tombstones, odd-shaped crypts, and what is called the "garden of the dead."

The young man's name was John F. Kerry (really John F. Kohn, Jewish). The Tomb, in fact, is the home of Chapter 322 of the Order of Skull & Bones, a satanic, clandestine lodge of Freemasonry first organized in 1832. Each year, fifteen (15; 1+5=6) carefully chosen young men of preferred bloodlines take up residence inside its thick walls. At their initiation into The Order, each man lies naked inside a coffin and "bonds" with his fellow bonesmen by confessing his sexual thoughts and deeds from birth. Then, each initiate is given, as a memento, a human bone with his new name "inscribed" on it.

...John Kerry has been, as we all know, richly rewarded for his faithfulness to Lucifer's cause. Pretending to be an Irish Catholic, Kerry first became Massachusetts Lt. Governor, serving under a fellow occultist, super-liberal Governor Michael Dukakis. Then he joined "Mr. Chappaquiddick," Ted (Catholic and Rosicrucian) Kennedy as a U.S. Senator, being elected from the state popularly known as The Peoples Republic of Massachusetts.

ConspiracyWorld "article" here.

Wiregate: Bush was wired.
Topic: presidential election
Oct. 13, 2004 | Speculation continues to run wild about President Bush's mystery bulge. Since Friday, when Salon first raised questions about the rectangular bulge that was visible under Bush's suit coat during the presidential debates, many observers in the press and on the Internet have wondered aloud whether the verbally and factually challenged president might be receiving coaching via a hidden electronic device.

Now a technical expert who designs and makes such devices for the U.S. military and private industry tells Salon that he believes the bulge is indeed a transceiver designed to receive electronic signals and transmit them to a hidden earpiece lodged in Bush's ear canal.

read the rest of the Salon.com article here.

from the halls of Europe: more Bush malapropisms...
Topic: presidential election

"Well, had we joined the Quixote* treaty, which I guess he's referring to, it would have cost America a lot of jobs. It's one of these deals where, in order to be popular in the halls of Europe, you sign a treaty."

debate transcript here.


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note: "W" was obviously referring to the 'Kyoto' treaty, but he pronounced it "kee-yo-tee"

George W. Bush: Wiregate
Topic: presidential election

Bush's mystery bulge
The rumor is flying around the globe. Was the president wired during the first debate?

By Dave Lindorff at salon.com


Oct. 8, 2004 | Was President Bush literally channeling Karl Rove in his first debate with John Kerry? That's the latest rumor flooding the Internet, unleashed last week in the wake of an image caught by a television camera during the Miami debate. The image shows a large solid object between Bush's shoulder blades as he leans over the lectern and faces moderator Jim Lehrer.

The president is not known to wear a back brace, and it's safe to say he wasn't packing. So was the bulge under his well-tailored jacket a hidden receiver, picking up transmissions from someone offstage feeding the president answers through a hidden earpiece? Did the device explain why the normally ramrod-straight president seemed hunched over during much of the debate?

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