it always pushes my skeptic buttons when an otherwise truthy piece like this bakes into their fine cake, something enshrining the hoax that "elections" are what tptb fear, that they're where the people might force change yada yada. Blathering on about how worried politicians are about their "sagging approval ratings" just builds on the myth that elections pose a threat to their jobs.
The final nail was driven into any former integrity in elections with the post-2000 passage of
HAVA - Help America Vote Act. Since then they've been rigged from the paperless blackboxes through the counting, with full ZioStream Media complicity in puffing up the hoax of integrity & legitimacy.
The only political activism I'd put a dime of donation towards or a shred of shoe leather, is election reform... that's the fraudulent foundation which the rest of the dog & pony show is built upon. So many "patriots" (workin' hard for Ron Paul etc) seem to miss this. And where's RP on using his "voice" to address the fraudulent election process, which would snuff out any chance of his "winning" no matter how many votes he really got? He's playing along with the establishment, pretending elections have integrity... in effect being nothing but a complicit steam release valve... again...
http://blackboxvoting.org/
http://verifiedvoting.org/
http://www.topplebush.com/humor/BlackBoxVoting.jpg