New Hampshire

Unlike the pundits who are expressing their usual "Gee willakers!" wonder over the results in the Democratic primary in New Hampshire, I have a much darker view. Bev Harris of Black Box Voting has been tirelessly leading the cause concerning voting machines much of this decade, and prior to the New Hampshire primary she expressed concern about the voting machines in New Hampshire. Looking at the anomalies between polling and actual numbers, Edwards and Obama are about what you expect, while Hillary's disparity is ridiculous, even though the writer seems to think it makes sense due to undecided voters (all the undecideds voted for Hillary? That seems to be what the majority of pundits and pollsters are saying. How likely is that really?). Where electronic vote tallying was used, they went for Hillary; where hand ballots used, Obama. All this talk about women moved by Hillary's tears and the Bradley effect aren't enough to explain this. If my hunch is right and the vote was rigged, who is behind it? On the surface, one would expect the Clintons. There is speculation though that the Republicans would prefer Hillary over Obama though. And we've seen these shenanigans before, usually on the Republican side.

I do admit the possibility that I'm wrong, and I really hope I am. Is it too much though to ask our media to maintain the sort of skepticism one would think is necessary to do their jobs? Instead we get the reaction of naive wonder one would expect from a 6 year old watching a firework display.