No One Should Concede a Contested Election

posted by John Nichols on 11/04/2008 @ 06:22am

The final polls before today's presidential election suggested that Democrat Barack Obama is well ahead of Republican John McCain – both nationally and in key battleground states. But surveys conducted prior to the voting, and exit polls of voters leaving their polling places, are not always definitional. In 2004, John Kerry was an exit-poll winner, but on election night he found himself locked in a county-by-county, precinct-by-precinct fight for the decisive state of Ohio.

Before all the votes were counted and all the conflicts were resolved in Ohio, Kerry conceded the election to Republican George Bush.

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Early reports of a huge voter turnout portends well for Obama. Crimbrary is confident it will be an Obama landslide. But there may also be lots of problems....long lines, malfunctioning machines, harassment and probably a few riots. Tom

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Excellant post Tom. It's hard to lay all of the blame for recent election unfairness on the Republicans in light of the facts. Elections which are conceded are indeed a blemish on the face of democracy and an insult to the many who stand in line to participate.

Tom said...

You're right anonymous. Be interesting to see who rolls over tonight. I suspect Republicans will contest everyhwere they can, right or wrong.