Great vote, grisly result

[The Sushi Bandit]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/comment/story/0,14259,1343014,00.html

Never in the course of human history has such an inspiring election produced such a depressing result. "It's South Africa!" was my first thought, when I saw the endless queues of voters lining up across the country first thing in the morning, as they did in South Africa's first democratic election.

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Vote or Die" proclaimed the T-shirt promoted by hip-hop's Sean "P Diddy" Combs and worn outside another polling station by 14-year-old Sareena Brown. What did it mean? I asked. "If you vote Bush, he's going to get us killed." And she means it literally, because it's the brothers of these poor black kids who are signed up in the recruiting station down the road to fight in Iraq.

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