The Return of the Repressed

From the New York Times:

A majority of voters - and an overwhelming number of African-Americans - said they were concerned that their own votes would not be counted properly, and one-third said they expected to encounter problems when they went to vote, the poll found. Nearly 80 percent of black respondents said they expected that some states would make a deliberate effort to prevent them from voting tomorrow.

The anxiety appears to be a legacy of the disputed election of 2000: [45 percent] of respondents in this latest poll said they did not think Mr. Bush legitimately won the presidency in 2000, compared with [50] percent who considered the outcome legitimate. [N.B. these numbers were incorrectly switched in the original NYT article]

Think about that: Four years later, almost half of the country believes that the 2000 election was stolen.

We will see if that fact has any consequences today.