By: Mark Crispin Miller
For Republicans, the 2004 presidential election was little short of miraculous: Behind in the Electoral College tally in the days leading up to the election, behind even on the very afternoon of the vote, the Bush ticket staged a stunning comeback. The exit polls, usually so reliable, turned out to be wrong by an unprecedented 5 percent in the swing states. Conservatives argued-and the media agreed-that "moral values" had made the difference. In his new book renowned critic and political commentator Mark Crispin Miller argues that it wasn't moral values that swung the election-it was theft.
Fooled Again - How the Right Stole the 2004 Election and Why They'll Steal the Next One Too (Unless We Stop Them) (Purchase)
Oct 17, 2005
Hardcover
US $24.95
CAN $34.95
0465045790
Published by Basic Books
While the greatest body of evidence comes from the key state of Ohio-where the Democratic staff of the House Judiciary Committee found an extraordinary onslaught of Republican-engineered vote suppression, election-day irregularities, old-fashioned intimidation tactics, and illegal counting procedures-similar practices (and occasionally worse ones) were applied in Florida, Oregon, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, and even New York. A huge array of anomalies, improper practices, and blatant violations of the law all, by a truly remarkable coincidence, happened to swing in the Bush ticket's favor. This pattern-not one overwhelming fraud but thousands of little ones-is, in Miller's view, the new Republican electoral strategy. This incendiary new book presents massive documentation that the election was stolen and describes the mind-set, among both the major parties and the media, that could permit it to happen again.
Reviews
"A fascinating catalogue of impeachable offenses and prosecutable crimes.”
— Kirkus Reviews
"[Mark Crispin Miller] gathers enough well-documented evidence that anyone who cares about fair play should find this book revelatory."
— Publishers Weekly
"Miller has done his homework, and his sources are numerous and scrupulously footnoted. He comes close to convincing an open-minded reader that the 2004 election was a gigantic fraud. His exhortation to Democrats 'not to milk it for partisan advantage but to use it to promote, and realize, electoral reform’ is the book's stated purpose, and Miller does make a strong case for reform. . . Miller's call for electoral reform becomes an urgent clarion call to all Americans, one that should not be ignored.”
— Florida Sun-Sentinel
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