Will there be a presidential election? - Niman

[giant_robot]

As this is only available online as a PDF file, I'm going to have to transcribe. Please forgive any typos.

Getting a Grip, by Michael I. Niman

Will There Be a Presidential Election?

It's becoming perfectly clear that if all eligible voters are allowed to vote in the upcoming US presidential election, and if all of those votes are properly counted, George W. Bush's political career will be over.

Former Bush voters are popping up everywhere, proclaiming their plans to switch over and oppose the man who duped them. Old-school conservatives are appalled at Bush's neo-liberal trade policies and his assault on civil liberties and the Constitution. Pious evangelicals are speaking out about all the lies, greed, and mistreatment of the poor. The Gipper's son, Ron Reagan Junior, just issued a strong endorsement for "anyone but Bush." NASCAR's son-of-god, Dale Earnhardt Junior, recently admonished a million Fox Sports viewers to follow in his footsteps and go see Michael Moore's Bush-basing film, Farenheit 9/11.

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By contrast, there's not a single Gore voter out there testifying that the're switching over to Bush for this election. No apathetic non-voters are rushing to register because they're wooed by Bush's dynamic leadership and vision. Young first-time voters aren't juming on the Bush bandwagon because they're excited about being drafted or having their college financial aid diverted to Iraq.

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The fear is real. If we have fair elections, Bush is certain to lose. But there's a big "if" here. History has shown that regimes that come into ower in the way the Bush junta did, seldom relinquish power in a fair electoral process. Given the current political realities, we can't take it for granted that there will be an election.

More: http://www.artvoice.com/archive/v3n28/v3n28.pdf

I'm afraid the only way to read this online is to download the entire issue as a pdf. The article is on pages 14-15. It's a pretty good read.

[Q3JR4]

1. I've taken the pdf file,

stripped out pages 14-15, and created another pdf file.

You can find it

[Q3JR4]

2. Sorry, link doesn't work...

http://newton.boisestate.edu/~jrod/v3n28.pdf

[giant_robot]

3. Thanks Q3JR4!!

Some day I'll have to learn how to do that! :)

[Centre_Left]

4. Bush a neo-liberal on trade...

That's a laugh. Bush has no trouble wrecking the economies of other countries and limiting the choices available to consumers in order to enrich domestric industries who back his campaign.