US election

[Gość: syd]

What was the European and Polish coverage of the election like? Were people
really suprised that Bush one?

[dfw]

You meant "won" ? :)

Here's what I found today on internet...

Europe - AP
Bush Makes Not-So-Good Headlines in Europe

LONDON - The re-election of President Bush (news - web sites) dominated British
newspapers Thursday, and many cast impartiality aside in reporting the result.

"How can 59,054,087 people be so DUMB?" the liberal Daily Mirror asked in a
Page One headline. Inside, several pages of coverage were headed "U.S. election
disaster."

The Independent bore the front-page headline "Four more years" on a black page
with grim pictures including a hooded Iraqi prisoner and an orange-clad
detainee at Guantanamo Bay.

The left-leaning Guardian led its features section with a black page bearing
the tiny words, "Oh, God." Inside a story described how Bush's
victory "catapaulted liberal Britain into collective depression."

Across Europe, many newspapers expressed dismay at the prospect of another term
for Bush, a president often regarded as inflexible and unilateralist.

"Oops — they did it again," Germany's left-leaning Tageszeitung newspaper said
in a front-page English headline. The cover of the Swiss newsmagazine Facts
called Bush's re-election "Europe's Nightmare." "Victory for the hothead: how
far will he go?" asked another Swiss weekly, L'Hebdo.

A few British papers welcomed the U.S. election result. "The world is a safer
place with George W. Bush back in the Oval Office," the tabloid Sun said in an
editorial.

All agreed the result reflected a sea-change in U.S. politics, a victory for
neo-conservatives and the religious right.

"March of the Moral Majority" said the conservative Daily Mail, above a photo
of Bush with his wife and daughters. "America's moral majority sweeps Bush back
into the White House," The Daily Telegraph said.

The Times said Europe "must come to terms, not only with Mr. Bush, but with the
nation that has elected him. This is a president who really can speak for
America."

Source: news.yahoo.com/news?
tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041104/ap_on_re_eu/bush_international_headlines


Take care,
DFW

[dfw]

Maybe not directly related to your topic, but I thought it was interesting...

W kazdym stanie, w ktorym oprocz glosowania elektronicznego byla dokumentacja
papierowa, rezultaty zgadzaja sie z tymi z "exit polls".
W KAZDYM stanie, w ktorym nie ma dokumentacji papierowj, Bush otrzymal
niewyjasniona 5% przewage w porownaniu z exit polls...
Sfalszowane wybory?

Cytuje w calosci:

States with electronic voting machines gave Bush mysterious 5% advantage;
bloggers do the math that broadcast networks fail to follow

www.newstarget.com/002076.html
States with electronic voting machines gave Bush mysterious 5% advantage;
bloggers do the math that broadcast networks fail to follow.

Is Bush trying to pull a fast one? It's not fooling bloggers over at
DemocraticUnderground.com, who have put together some fascinating numbers
showing that a mysterious "5% advantage" goes to Bush only in those states
using electronic voting machines. Or, put another way, all the exit polls
showed Kerry winning, and the exit polls asked people who they actually voted
for. But strangely, the "official" count appears to have been boosted in
favor of Bush.

How was it boosted? Read up at BlackBoxVoting.org to learn how electronic
voting machines can easily be hacked. And since there's no paper trail

Let it go

[Gość: wj]

What a gibberish. Exit polls didn'w work for the second time.
First time in 2000 and again this year.
The method of voting is determined by each county, not the state.
The states using e-voting in all the counties are:
Delaware(K), Georgia(B), Maryland(K) and Nevda(B).
It is time to stop spreading left wing baseless accusations.
www.thestandard.com/movabletype/datadigest/archives/000499.php
In Florida 15 out of 67 counties use e-voting including 4 democratic dtrongholds
Broward, Miami-Dade, Volusia and Palm Beach. Kerry won in all four.
The biggest margin for Bush was in Utah (>44%); no e-vote machines there.
In Indiana 43 out of 92 counties use e-voting. Bush won Indiana by almost 21%.
Iterestingly enough senator Bayh, a democrat won by even bigger margin.
Were the machines rigged for both of them?
On the same machine the voter votes for president,a senator,a representative, a
governor,a mayor and an assemblyman.
Enough already. Get over it. Instead of whinning, analyse the causes of the
defeat and get ready for the next race in four years time.

[dfw]

Nobody's whinning. I just quoted some sources.
Exit polls are not reliable - everyone knows it. Just the theory like that is
quite an idea!

Oh, well, just another four years...