To Catch a Thief by Barbara Ehrenreich, The Progressive
We were six toasts into the wedding dinner when the conversation turned, as conversations usually do, to the possibility of a Republican theft of the election in November. 'That's when we hit the streets!' declared the Cuban American community organizer from Pennsylvania. 'Yeah!' bellowed the retired union president from Long Island, and we all pounded the table and raised our glasses yet again: 'Everybody hit the streets!'
The streets must be feeling pretty threatened by this time, because the idea of a Republican-engineered election fraud is no longer the property of the kind of people who think George W. designed 9/11 and that John Kerry is a Halliburton-supplied bot containing batteries set to run out on October 15.