One is a 2 dimensional fictional character, used to sell a product, a play on stereotypes in order to allow the consumer to feel safer because their "black mammy" would never lead them astray...
And the other is Aunt Jemima."
Friday, November 19, 2004
Before a recount can be started in Ohio the vote must be certified, but it looks like the Ohio Secretary of State (coincidentally a zealous Bush campaigner and notorious minority vote suppressor) is dragging his feet on certifying the vote:
"Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell, co-chair of President Bush’s 2004 Ohio Campaign Committee had told the press recently that certification of the vote would not take place until around December 6th, leaving only a week for the recount before the Ohio members of the Electoral College convened on December 13th.
“What’s the point of having a recount if it won’t be completed in time? Everyone knows what happened in Florida in 2000 and no one wants to see that happen again,” said Blair Bobier, Media Director for the Cobb-LaMarche campaign"
"For 40 years, the Dayton Daily News reports this morning, Shirley Wightman has worked at polling places on election days. Two weeks ago, she says, turnout was high - 611 voters.. in Washington Township, Ohio... Yet when the votes were tallied, 168 of the 611 voters had made no choice for president. Unless these were the famed undecideds we heard so much about in the closing weeks of the campaigns, something went terribly wrong..."
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