THE FIX ALREADY IN?

Over the weekend I spotted a headline listed at DrudgeReport.Com that suggested that despite the world being in shambles, the White House was pretty upbeat about their prospects in three weeks. According to [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/14/AR2006101401051_pf.html|the October 15, 2006 article] Drudge links to:

Amid widespread panic in the Republican establishment about the coming midterm elections, there are two people whose confidence about GOP prospects strikes even their closest allies as almost inexplicably upbeat: President Bush and his top political adviser, Karl Rove. ... The official White House line of supreme self-assurance comes from the top down. Bush has publicly and privately banished any talk of losing the GOP majorities, in part to squelch any loss of nerve among his legions. Come January, he said last week, "We'll have a Republican speaker and a Republican leader of the Senate."

The article goes on to postulate why this odd confidence exists. One thing it doesn't suggest is that they know they'll win thanks to fixed ballot boxes. That's my theory. I truly hope I'm wrong. I'm trusting that the American people are smart enough to vote Democrat this time around and if Republicans win, we'll pretty much know that the fix was in. What can we expect when most of the companies ballot machines across the country are owned by Republicans? Not only that, but EVERY electronic ballot box can be hacked (or even prehacked) to switch votes from one candidate to the other all too easily.

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