Did Bush Get Lucky? Or Were the Odds Stacked in His Favor

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Hey guys - What's your take on these 2 articles?

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http://valleyadvocate.com/gbase/News/content?oid=oid:91516

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In 10 states where there were verifiable paper trails -- or no
electronic machines -- the final results hardly differed from
the initial exit polls. Exit polls and final counts in
Missouri, Louisiana, Maine and Utah, for instance, varied by 1
percent or less.

In non-paper-trail states, however, there were significant
differences:
# Florida saw a shift from Kerry +1 percent in the exit polls
to Bush +5 % at evening's end.
# In Ohio, Kerry went from +3 percent to –3 percent.
# Minnesota (from +10 percent to +4 percent)
# New Mexico (+4 to –1), Nevada (+1 to –3),
# Wisconsin (+7 to +0.4),
# Colorado (-2 to –5),
# North Carolina (-4 to -13),
# Iowa (+1 to –1),
# New Hampshire (+14 to +1)
# Pennsylvania (+8 to +2).
**Exit polls also had Kerry winning the national popular vote
by 3 percent.
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http://globalresearch.ca/articles/HRE412A.html

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   This lockdown must be viewed in the context of the
aberrational results in Warren County. In the 2000
Presidential election, the Democratic Presidential candidate,
Al Gore, stopped running television commercials and pulled
resources out of Ohio weeks before the election. He won 28% of
the vote in Warren County. In 2004, the Democratic
Presidential candidate, John Kerry, fiercely contested Ohio
and independent groups put considerable resources into getting
out the Democratic vote. Moreover, unlike in 2000, independent
candidate Ralph Nader was not on the Ohio ballot in 2004. Yet,
the tallies reflect John Kerry receiving exactly the same
percentage in Warren County as Gore received, 28%.

    We hope you agree that transparent election procedures are
vital to public confidence in electoral results. Moreover,
such aberrant procedures only create suspicion and doubt that
the counting of votes was manipulated. As part of your
decision to certify the election, we hope you have
investigated these concerns and found them without merit. To
assist us in reaching a similar conclusion, we ask the
following:

        1. Have you, in fact, conducted an investigation of
the lockdown? What procedures have you or would you recommend
be put into place to avoid a recurrence of this situation?

        2. Have you ascertained whether County officials were
advised of terrorist activity by an FBI agent and, if so, the
identity of that agent?

        3. If County officials were not advised of terrorist
activity by an FBI agent, have you inquired as to why they
misrepresented this fact? If the lockdown was not as a
response to a terrorist threat, why did it take place? Did any
manipulation of vote tallies occur?
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