Are People Retarded?

Okay, last night I sat through the NH primary in a disgusted funk. At first I though people were plain retarded, especially when I saw CNN's exit polling say "Stay in Iraq 100 years" McCain won the majority of people who said they disproved of the Iraq war. I mean, how can people live with themselves with such cognitive dissonance - disapprove of the war, vote for someone who says they are happy if it lasts another 100 years?

Then I realized that there was a reason the voting didn't match up with the polling. The voting was fixed. Plain and simple. People were up in arms on the net saying their town, were they voted for Ron Paul, registered zero RP votes in the official tally.

ABC carried a story saying that it was a huge scandal how the polling was so wrong, Obama was clearly headed for a victory. ABC automatically assumed their polls were wrong, but I suspect the Clinton vote was fixed as well.

• Diebold favors Hillary, hand count for Obama - software on Diebold machines is proprietary and no wonder, the machine votes favored Clinton over Obama. Obama wins the hand counted votes.
• Voting Machines favor Rudy Giuliani over Ron Paul - Table shows that Ron Paul beats Rudy in hand counted ballots (at least the ones reported and not "lost"... see below)
• Ron Paul cheated out of all his votes in Suttton, NH - "What happened is she said they did not transfer the number correctly and put zero instead of 31 - that is unacceptable as an answer." Where else did this happen?
• New Hampshire's Polling Fiasco - "It is simply unprecedented for so many polls to have been so wrong. We need to know why." ABC News

Ron Paul was polling in the high teens and gets only 8% of the vote. Hmmm...I guess if Americans are happy with machines telling them how they voted, they deserve to live with the results. Good luck paying for your 100 years in Iraq!