Once again, Americans fail to accept election results
A recent poll suggests that 52% of Republican believe that ACORN stole the election for Barack Obama in 2008, and only 27% of Republicans believe he won the election legitimately (and an amazing 21% not sure). Among Democrats, 86% believe Obama won the election legitimately. Although the wording of the poll is, in my view, suggestive and designed to deliver this result, the numbers are still quite dramatic.
Before we dump on Republicans, we should remember that in 2001, 79% of Democrats believed George W Bush did not win the 2000 election “fair and square”, and 28% believed he “stole” the election. Among Republicans, 85% said Bush won fair and square.
Any rational person would admit that there were more grounds to be suspicious of the final result in 2000 than in 2008. Nevertheless, it does illustrate the polarization of thinking between Republicans and Democrats.
It also suggests that both Democrats and Republicans fail to accept that any intelligent human could disagree with them, and if an election proves different then it must be that the results have somehow been rigged. Only an election that delivers the outcome they want will be seen as legitimate.
Viewed from down under, they sound like spoiled little children.
