As a new attack ad comes on, people across the country are thinking, "Just one more week and it will be over." Ha! The election is only the beginning.

According to the Democrats, Gore won the 2000 election but Bush's cousin at Fox declared Florida for Bush causing Fox to project Bush as the winner of the election. All of the other networks followed Fox's lead. Believing what he heard on TV, Gore called Bush and conceded.

Then Gore found out that there would be a recount and un-conceded. By then it was too late. Bush already had an aura of inevitability that carried him to the election.

Somehow the fact that Bush had more votes in enough states to give him an Electoral victory was irrelevant.

Learning his lessons from Gore's mistakes, Kerry's plan is this. First he will dispatch six SWAT teams of lawyers and political operatives to any of the battleground states that he does not win. He already has his team in place and office space dedicated to them. Their job is to contest any close match that Kerry loses. There will be a SWAT team within an hour of all battleground states.

On election night he will declare victory regardless of what the counts show. He will immediately name his national security team and start work on his transition team.

The first lawsuits have already been filed and lost. Democrats wanted Ohio voters to be able to wander into any precinct in their county and cast a provisional ballot. Secretary of State Blackwell directed that these clueless voters should be given directions to their proper precinct where they can cast their provisional ballot. Given that all new voters get a postcard telling them where their precinct is, this does not seem to be an unreasonable requirement. The courts agree and the Democrats have dropped the matter.

Other suits are sure to follow.

The thinking among Democrats is that the more clueless the voter the more likely he will be a Democrat. Accordingly, the Motor Voter Act and other registration drives are aimed at the people who are too lazy or ignorant to register any other way.

This opens the system to all sorts of abuses. Not long ago an Ohio man was arrested for registering 100 false names. He says that he was paid in crack cocain by a woman as part of the NAACP National Voter Fund.

The Democrats have vowed that they would retake the White House by anny means nessesary. That apparently includes fraud and frivolous lawsuits. Also voter intimidation. I've seen a tiny bit of that myself when all of the Bush yard signs for blocks around me vanished last week.

I'm beginning to envy the Afghans their realatively quiet election.

All of this is destructive the the very idea of democracy. We cannot function if the losers in the election insist that the winners stole the election. That's what has been going on for the last four years. At best, the Democrats will make the same claim for another four years. At worst they will succeed in re-taking the white house through actual theft.

This is World Population Awareness Week. Thank John Kerry for this. This represents one of the five pieces of legislation (nine if you count resolutions) that bears Kerry's name.