So your argument is not really that things haven't gotten 'that bad,' it's simply, no, they won't postpone or cancel the elections, too much of a lightning rod, they'll figure out how to win them in other ways, perhaps even more craven and dismissive of popular will and the rule of law. OK. So now it's idle speculation, isn't it, what particular tactics they'll use to stay in power. They'll use whatever they can get away with, and--as I've been trying to argue--what they can get away with depends on us. They got away with unbelievable shit in Florida--more than I thought they ever could, much more. See the movie 'Unprecedented.' My point is we need to use the elections, not ignore them, because they are a point of struggle, not the only one, not even probably the most important one, but a significant area in which Bush is actually weak.
Jenny Brown