The problem with blaming Bush is that if his campaign fixed this election they certainly did an extremely sloppy job of it that does Bush maximum harm before he's even inaugurated. The Bush dynasty loses almost as much status by winning in this way as if G.W. had clearly lost to Gore. If your goal is to destabilize the present system in this country and institute a coup, martial law or something else even more drastic this could be a very effective first step. As demonstrations erupt across the nation, recounts spread to other states and elected officials begin to publicly choose sides things are likely to get much more chaotic and devisive. The kinds of conflict these proposed changes would cause in the streets and in Congress might well lead to a civil war, a revolution or a coup.
Chaos presents the opportunity for drastic change.
The CIA-influenced media appears to have had an astonishingly accurate picture of what the outcome of this election would be long before it was finished. Too Close To Call has been the predominate theme for most of the past year. Perhaps America is really this evenly decided between Democrat and Republican, Gore and Bush or perhaps we have been set up for this fiasco over the course of the entire election campaign. The only sure result we have right now is that both major party candidates appear to have no mandate and the non-traditional candidates have been proven to have either no substantial following or, in the case of Nader, are being are blamed for causing this whole mess. In other words, every presidential candidate has experienced a dramatic loss of prestige and legitimacy and America has no one who can even pretend to represent the people in 2001.