Looking Forward To The Next Presidential Election
By Wayne Lela (11/13/08)
Back in 2004 Newsweek's Washington editor Evan Thomas conceded that the liberally biased coverage John Kerry's presidential campaign received was worth about five percentage points in the election that Bush won. (Thomas's concession was noted in a National Review article by John O'Sullivan, "The Limits of Media Bias," Nov. 29, 2004, p. 46.) In other words, if the coverage of that election by the dominant liberal media had been fair, Bush likely would have beaten Kerry much more easily.
Now, let's look at the Obama/McCain contest. Obama only beat McCain by about six-and-one-half percentage points. Considering how biased the fawning dominant liberal media were in their coverage of Obama's campaign, treating him as a quasi-rockstar, one has to wonder how many percentage points that coverage was worth. One has to wonder if McCain would have beaten Obama in an election where the dominant liberal media played fair.
At the very least, we can conclude Obama has no mandate, not even close. But given how the liberal media fawn over him, he may have gotten so full of himself that he thinks he has a mandate (if not an endorsement from God Himself). The odds are very good that he and his fellow radicals---e.g., Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Rahm Emanuel---will overplay their hand. It only took a few years for Republicans to blow it and to go from having the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives and the presidency, to Democrats having them. Stupid arrogance and corruption will probably cause the Democrats to blow it too. Factor in a touch of power-madness on the part of giddy Democrats, and conservatives shouldn't have to wait too long before the country rejects liberal radicalism and swings back toward the right, especially considering this is basically a center/right country.
The thousand-dollar question, though, is: How much damage are the Democrats going to do to this country before they lose their grip on power? Answer: It could be a lot. It could be a long four years until the next presidential election. Put your seat belt on. But, in the meantime, you can console yourself with this thought: The dominant liberal media are in a state of continuous decline, with fewer and fewer consumers of their biased product and with little credibility. Major liberal newspapers will likely be shutting down in the next few years. The sleazy liberal media's ability to influence the next election will be reduced.
In these next few years, however, one thing we need to do is at least ensure that more votes have a paper trail. Right now, according to news reports, about one-third of all ballots cast are merely electronic with no paper backups. That should scare the bejesus out of you. The ability to electronically manipulate that many votes could potentially have a significant fraudulent impact on many many election results. At most, we should flat-out eliminate electronic voting, except perhaps for certain physically impaired voters.
Wayne Lela
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