remember SRushdie's How the Grinch Stole America on 2000 vote??

[bobbieinok]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/US_election_race/Story/0,2763,417622,00.html

Every Vote down in Voteville liked Voting a Lot,
But the GRINCH, who lived West of Voteville,
did Not.
For Voting was Counting - not just Adding and such
But finding out if you Amounted to Much.
In this case, the question was, who, in a pinch,
Amounted to More? Did the Veep? Or the Grinch?

....

"How to stop it?" the Grinch exclaimed with a moan
And then he remembered he wasn't alone.
There were Grinches all over,
big Grinches and small,
There were Grinches in Voteville
and in City Hall,
He knew some news-Grinches,
and he could depend
On these inky fellows to shape and to bend
Their stories to help him win through in the end.

But the Grinches who'd give him
the edge and the win
Were the great Legal Grinches,
and Grinches of Spin.

So he called on his cohorts.
"My friends, we must Grinch
This election! 'Nuff Counting!

....

And the Votes down in Voteville?
They've run out of steam.
'Tis the season to party, to heal and to dream.
Why worry? The Constitution is strong,
The judges who judge it can never be wrong,
The Veep may have won, but he's lost.
And that's that.
Voteville accepts the high judges' fiat.
There isn't a holler, there isn't a scream,
Think of the dollar! Let's play for the team!
So everyone okays the Grinch's régime,
And things are probably
probably
probably
probably
probably
Not as bad as they seem.

"Four whole years of Grinchdom!"
the Grinch cries with glee
"There's Only One Person who Counts now
...That's
ME."