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Maybe this is what they are setting up with Buster Soaries' trial balloon and all the talk of a terrorist attack that will disrupt the election. They want an excuse to keep the polls open until they win.
One of the biggest dynamics in this election is going to be turnout. democrats and liberals are on fire to go vote bush out of office, whereas many moderate republicans, along with the libertarian republicans and the buchananites, will be holding their nose while they vote for Bush, if they bother to get out and vote at all. Many liberals predict a margin for Kerry far exceeding the poll numbers as a result of weak Bush supporters staying home.
But if the weak Bush supporters see election results with Bush losing, and are given a "second chance" to go vote, I think they would do so in large numbers.
Remember, this is what the republicans have been doing in congress lately, holding the voting open for hours, if necessary, to work over the fence straddlers.
I think there are many scenarios under which the administration could use a terrorist attack or threat to keep the polls open or to have an extra day of voting. And I think, given the dynamics of the election, that this would dramatically benefit Bush.
It scares me that whitehouse insiders have been quoted as saying that they are "certain" there will be an attack between now and the election, and that Bush will win as a result because "we won't be like Spain."
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