Obama wants Fair Elections

     President Barak Obama is delaying his decision on continuing support for the Afghanistan government.  His plan is to wait until after a legitimate election so they can demonstrate that the government has broad regional support from the population.  Obama wisely notes that the government needs to have popular support in order to implement change and craft new programs.

   Can we expect the same consideration here in the United States?

     In recent years we have had ACORN and affliated organizations charged with employees criminally violating election laws.  We have been entertained by reports of votes from Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Jack in the Box, and several ACORN workers who admitted to voting multiple times using real and fictional names via absentee ballots and bogus voter registrations.

     Once again, today, we have an election that should belong to the Democratic candidate based on past voting patterns, overwhelming numbers of registered party members, and campaign spending [50+ million by the incumbent to less than 12 million by the challenger].  But despite these advantages the candidate of the little people, Billionaire former Investment Banker, Jon Corzine, is in a statistical dead heat in the opinion polls.  Yet it may come down to the same tactics used in Afghanistan for Corzine to retain his office. That is illegal voting and fraudulent counting processes.  Given the proclivity of the use of voter intimidation [the new black panther party incidents in 2008 in Philadelphia] and other such tacics used in 3rd world elections, will President Obama think twice before he tries to implement his new programs here?

      Or has democracy been replaced by power politics?  Is this the beginning of the rule of the power of the Federal Government over the ordinary citizen?