The Economist is, in my view, the best news publication in the English language, though editorially conservative. They endorsed Dubya in 2000 and supported the Iraq war.
But they are now endorsing Kerry saying, Bush is, "too incompetent to deserve a second term."
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=3329802
It is a very agonized editorial, leaning way over backward to give Bush the benefit of the doubt - for example shrugging off the lies about WMD. And yet, despite trying their best to ignore a myriad mentioned and unmentioned faults on W's side... and eagerly nit-picking reservations about Kerry... they just cannot bring themselves to hold their nose any longer.
Like fifty other major papers (and W's home town newspaper) they are switching for the sake of civilization.
Bless the brits.
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In any event, the flood of last minute defections from the GOP side, (with NONE going the other way), seems now to be accompanied by good news from the tracking polls. Even Gallup, with their outrageous bias, shows trends that the programmers of the voting machines will have to work hard to overcome.
(I expect they will try. Every single voting machine company has GOP ties. Now how did THAT happen? And do they dare transfer bits wholesale? Whistle-blowers take note!)
Ironically, this may be the year that proves me wrong about the Electoral College. (I thought it was intrinsically biased in favor of the GOP.) But we might even see something really amazing. A case of ironic justice.
One commentator suggests that Bush may actually win the popular vote by a fraction of a percent, and yet lose big in the EC! If so, it might convince BOTH parties to finally deliberate like grownups about ending the damned thing.
I don't think it will go that way. A number of observers who I have found savvy in the past are starting to predict a blow-out, big enough to send home all the lawyers who have been salivating over a close-finish. Goody. I'm fed up with lawsuits.
In fact, I am so optimistic that now I've grown ambitious. I want the Senate, too. It will give JK a chance to nominate truly neutral and august justices and save us from the agenda-mongers.
I will also teach the neocons a lesson. Go home. Fire the dogmatists and culture warriors. Next time, send us instead honest conservatives who are interested in proposing right-handed solutions to problems and negotiating like grownups.
The left had its phases of madness... and it may again. At which time I will help get rid of THOSE monsters. But now is the time for decent citizens of conservative bent to step up and save both their movement and their country...
... and it appears that enough of our conservative fellow citizens WILL be answering their country's call on Tuesday. God bless them all.
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