Follow the bouncing ball

As I noted before, a lot of people are conceding that if there was a terrorist attack on election day, that the election should be rescheduled, because they wouldn't want anyone to be disenfranchised due to the attack. Like I said earlier, we already have local election officials for that.
But if BushCo can convince enough people to concede that the feds should have the authority to reschedule the election in case of a terrorist attack, they will start pushing for more power. Just watch--if they can get people to buy their authority to reschedule due to a terrorist attack, the wording will subtly change from "terrorist attack" to "terrorist threat".

Edited to add this link: Jack K. at Ruminate This makes a good point--why would the terrorists attack on election day, since there's no way to predict how that would influence the vote? My guess is it would ratchet up support for Bush, but there's no way to know.
To my mind, that's just another reason that I think my theory about why they want to move election day around holds water. My theory is that they are trying to drive down voter turnout. The harder it is to get to the polls, the higher the percentage of people who do vote are Republicans, because they are often freer with their schedule or live in districts with more accesible voting polls. Since they have a well-researched habit of doing everything in their power to drive down voter turnout, there's no reason to believe that this isn't part of that pattern.