Check out FoxNews.com’s frantic effort to lay the groundwork for the claim that Obama’s expected win is illegitimate, the product of a chaotic and fraud-prone election system and voter intimidation carried out by violent African-Americans.
At one polling site in Vermont, voters could maybe even look over and see each other’s ballots! The election is ruined!
Not to pooh-pooh the importance of a secret ballot, but this is really grasping at straws.
In a way, you can’t blame Fox. In stoking fears of an illegitimate election, it’s only following John McCain’s lead.