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Originally Posted by DaveMatrix
Shake your head all you want, but as I recall at least a few recent presidential elections were rigged & its certainly much easier to rig the local ones. Not that it really matters, I usually end up voting for the lesser of 2 evils anyway. Most honest politicians will eventually succumb to the corruption of power and money, few can resist. Thats the nature of power, it tends to corrupt no matter what degree you're given.
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And then they forgot how to rig them in 2006
Some day I'll figure out how people can go from the government being grossly incompetent to insidiously Machiavellian without missing stride.
The closest to a rigged election in modern times was 1960, when Old Mayor Daley, 'delivered' Illinois to Kennedy. Nixon was urged to do a Al Gore on it, but decided it was not in the best interest of the nation to drag the presidential race into such controversy.
Sort of ironic that the democrats most beloved president won due to a non-existent missile gap, and the Chicago democrats machine.
Knowing how the machine worked (and still works though without nearly the insane level of fraud as before, though I'll be happy to fill you in) I can't see any chance of this not being true.
But just because an election is close, doesn't mean its got to be rigged against your guy.