A Plea.

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Despite my disappointment at the outcome of this election, what is most important to me is that the people have at least nominally spoken. The election has been held, and we support the system, even if we do not support the winner. At all.

To that end, if faith in the system is lost, then all is lost. Because you can't fix anything within a broken system. So please, please, PLEASE, someone tell me where the fault in this graph lies. Because I desperately want to believe that he actually won. The alternative is too awful.

Comments

[greyowl.livejournal.com]

Also, I doubt absentee or early voters are included in the exit polls. My county (Bernalillo, NM) is probably unusual, but over half of us voted early or absentee. And if you look at the unofficial results (http://www.bernco.gov/upload/images/clerk/general04/resultsPage1.html), which the county breaks down into precinct/absentee/early, you can see some definite differences. (In this particular case, absentee voters were more likely to vote for Kerry.)