IF Kerry loses, there will be one main culprit -- maybe two.

The second one is the paper-trail-free, unverifiable electronic voting machines.   Jeb Bush's Florida machine is very likely to siphon off some of Kerry's votes and switch them to Nader. That's why they've fought so hard to get Nader on the Florida ballot. Ohio and Florida are both in danger of "going for" Bush officially even if the majority of their voters vote for Kerry.

The biggest problem, of course, is the media -- radio and TV in particular. Radio talk shows are horrendously lopsided, with about 90 percent having a blatantly right-wing bias and many of them quite unfettered by any concern for factual accuracy.
TV "news," by contrast is mainly superficial and lame. They treat the upcoming election as just another horse race and seldom do the important job of investigative reporting or of correcting factual inaccuracies spouted by either party.
TV "news" is more likely to parrot and perpetuate campaign lies and distortions than to hold them up to the light for examination.
The public is NOT getting to hear the views and plans of ANY candidates via the TV news media.   All they hear is a handful of soundbites.

I wish the mainstream media could bring themselves to present what the candidates are actually saying -- and spend a lot less time commenting on it, except when clear-cut inaccuracies need to be pointed out .    Maybe then we'd know which candidates the voters really prefer.