If the prizeee is right....

Right, Dan Kennedy’s piece here is really deep. Essentially, we are all holding our breath for the days till Obama wins; he contends we shouldn’t. McCain might still win on the basis of the stuff below,
Voter suppression. What do you think the McCain campaign's full-scale war against Acorn is all about? Acorn, a left-leaning activist organisation, has indeed engaged in voter registration fraud - or, rather, has had registration fraud perpetrated upon it by unscrupulous signature gatherers. But these phony voters are not going to be able to cast ballots unless they show up at the polls with some sort of valid identification.

This is election rigging! Winning by Fraud! If the republicans win the presidency on this basis for another four/eight years it will be the strongest declaration yet to the world that the United States is morally bankrupt as a nation, especially when it goes abroad to espouse the rule of law. For the longest time, the mystique of America (nay, the west) has rested on the ‘it couldn’t happen here principle’. Not that that was ever clearly the case, and as Toni Morrison has always argued, the denial of liberty to black peoples has always been the dark canker at the heart of american democracy – we might begin to see it crack, if black americans are so blatantly denied the vote (see the article, and Gary Younge’s superior piece on African Americans and the vote) and a candidate so deserving does not succeed. There are some who would say disparaging thing about what it says about a nation that puts the republicans in the white house again – but I was raised to say nothing when I can’t say something nice. Actually, another thought occured to me - maybe the votes will be disputed by Obama and then McCain will suggest a government of national unity.....