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Pathetic tosser refuses to admit defeat
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4925118.stmPrime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is refusing to admit defeat in last week's Italian election despite a court ruling in favour of his opponents.
The Supreme Court has confirmed a narrow win for the centre-left opposition led by Romano Prodi.
But after a meeting with his advisers, Mr Berlusconi let it be known he was considering a further legal challenge.
My heart bleeds for the Italian soon to be ex-PM.
Perhaps he and also-soon-to-be-out-of-office Tony Blair can set up home together somewhere.
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The corrupt tosser clearly has more money than sense, but it won't buy him another term this time.
In Italy however it's just Berlusconi himself who claims that any irregularities have taken place. And then even he knows that no irregularities took place.
Massive difference.
Did i mention Berlusconi owns the Italian media? He does.
2000 was admittedly close and there were irregularities that affected Gore and Bush - in Florida. McLaughin & Associates noted that the TV news media by calling the state for Gore at around 7.48pm EST while voters in the western panhandle (in the Central Time Zone) potentially suppressed the heavily Republican panhandle vote. The media also incorrectly announced that polls were closed in Florida whilst polls in the panhandle were still open. This the McLaughin survey estimated; the media announcements of closed poll and a Gore victory cost Bush a margin of 5,000 votes – and the confusion led to as many as 15,000 not voting. 2000 was so close that even if Gore had got it I think there would have been doubts on the legitimacy of his victory.
However, the 2002 midterms in which Bush campaigned hard for resulted in a bigger Republican majority in the House and Republicans winning back the Senate. And in 2004 Bush obviously comfortably defeated Kerry. Clearly a pretty clear mandate for Bush.
The 2000 result was a fraud. As well as the miscounting irregularities, up to 70,000 black people (90% of which vote Democrat) were illegally removed from the voting register in Florida.
Bush should have been in jail in 2004 with his brother Jeb, not fighting for re-election from the Oval Office.
Miscounting irregularities will have inevitably affected Bush and Gore.
Where do you get 70,000 from? I think you've got your numbers wrong. If someone is convicted of a felony they’re not allowed to vote in many states. 57,700 'ex-felons' were removed from the electoral roll – of this figure 8,000 were in fact not felons at all and were erroneously removed. Figures from Greg Palast
Interesting piece from the New York Times on Democrats and Republicans who want to stop disenfranchising ex-prisoners.
Yes, but strange how the media concentrate less on the US servicemen who were unable to vote - funnily enough the majority who vote Republican.
And given the past record of Italian elections I wouldn't be suprised if there has been fraud (committed by all sides as well as I suspect) - though whether the top people are involved this time is a different matter.