According to the latest Harper's Index, 54% of Americans believe that George W. Bush was legitimately elected president.

There are two ways of looking at this figure. One, of course, is to be in utter frustration that over half of the people in the United States bought the utter nonsense that the Democratic Party "used the courts" to try to obstruct an election (consider how Bush was finally selected). It is frightening, too, to realize that the mainstream news media failed to report what was going on in terms of Florida voting roll purges that emanated from Texas, and numerous voting rights violations.

But the other, perhaps more interesting, way to look at this figure is to realize that almost half of the people in the United States believe that George W. Bush was not legitimately elected president. Almost half!

If this is indeed the center of the free world--that is what people say--then what on earth is going on that almost half of the center's inhabitants believe they are living under an illegitiimate government?