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[Joe Chi Minh]

would be a last resort he would surely have envisaged.

Look at it this way. It's difficult for the neocons to demonise the keystone of any and every election, *counting the vote*, particularly when it is also the foundation stone of democracy, itself.

Stripped of almost all the power of negative propaganda, the option to personalize the issue, which has been the sole modus operandi of the neocons since their record in office has proved to be a nightmare of such gothic proportions, (surpassed in its horror only by the prospect of more of the same with bells on), that many Republicans, not least among the highest in the land, have switched their allegiance to Kerry. And Rove is having his own fundament kicked from here to breakfast; left exposed ("like a shag on a rock", in Aussie parlance) to public ridicule, once it's all over bar the shouting and the smoke has cleared - finessed by a man whose boots he's not fit to lick.

The immense juggernaut of evidence of electoral fraud and voter suppression, physical and circumstantial (the latter by no means less awesome) speaks far more eloquently than John could in the teeth of their propaganda machine, even with the oratorical skills of Wild Bill, himself.