Appearing at the Time Warner Summit conference on the 2008 election, a host of prominent electoral observers were all bearish on the Arizona Republican's presidential ambitions. Not one panelist took the chance to defend the Senator's choice of Sarah Palin as vice president. Others simply saw death by electoral numbers.

"Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, Missouri, Iowa, Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada," declared Byron York of the National Review. "Bush won everyone of those states except Pennsylvania. McCain has to do it all. And it is hard to do that by going on Letterman."

The reference was to the Arizona Republican's upcoming appearance on the Late Night Show this Thursday. For the panelists it symbolized yet another instance of what Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan described as "herky-jerky" behavior coming from the Republican ticket.

"Obama seems older in a way," said the former Ronald Reagan speechwriter. "McCain has seemed herky-jerky. Obama has seemed like the older, steadier fellow since the economic crisis began."

It was a sentiment echoed by most everyone else. Josh Marshall, the publisher of Talking Points Memo, made the case, as he has done many times before, that the senator by and large has dug his own grave.

"By the way he has conducted his campaign, McCain has got himself in a hole," he said. "That dramatic gesture [that he might turn to]... even if, on its own terms, it might be good for him, he has so effectively created this view as erratic it might not work."

The main object of ridicule and criticism, however, was Sarah Palin. York called her interviews with CBS's Katie Couric "very bad" and immune to political spin.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/13/noonan-york-toobin-and-ot_n_134263.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/13/mccain-camp-accuses-acorn_n_134277.html

With a fundraising email sent out under Sarah Palin's name Monday, the McCain campaign is now directly alleging that community organizer ACORN's recent efforts are part of a concerted strategy to steal the election on behalf of Barack Obama -- a startling and unsubstantiated claim.

The campaign and the Republican National Committee had been, until now, content to highlight Barack Obama's past ties to the group, which is suffering from bad press over fraudulent voter registration cards

As The Atlantic's Marc Ambinder has noted, "none of the fraudulent cards will result in any fraudulent votes being cast." ACORN is required by law to turn in all completed forms collected by their canvassers, even those that are suspicious. For example, fake individuals registered by a rogue ACORN canvasser looking to goose his or her daily totals cannot magically show up to the polls on Nov. 4.

I thought I had heard that "Obama is measuring for the curtains" remark before.

I guess they didn't have a contingency plan...or an exit strategy?

I think McCain is setting up a smoke screen. He's doing that mavericky thing. I think he's going to go rabid negative in the next debate. Make sure Obama is ready to put the poor dog out of its misery.

I'm making another contribution today to make sure Obama can get a half an hour on all networks election eve. We are going to need it. The Republicans are going to launch an all out Swiftboat assault. You can see it in McCain's snarly grin. He thinks he's got us fooled.

Please, everyone give another $10 dollars.

done, Sandy......

that video above is a hoot, btw.

the old coot is another one-trick pony!

During a campaign rally this afternoon, John McCain made this observation:

The next President won’t have time to get used to the office. He won’t have the luxury of studying up on the issues before he acts.

“We cannot spend the next four years as we have spent much of the last eight, waiting for our luck to change,” McCain added. “The hour is late. Our troubles are getting worse. Our enemies watch.” Watch it:

McCain’s statement could not be a more damaging indictment of himself. As he has acknowledged repeatedly, he doesn’t know much about the economy and “still needs to be educated” on it:

– “I’m going to be honest: I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues. I still need to be educated.” [Wall Street Journal, 11/26/05]

– “The issue of economics is not something I’ve understood as well as I should…I’ve got Greenspan’s book.” [Boston Globe, 12/18/07]

– “In the interest of full disclosure, I didn’t pay nearly the attention to those issues in the past…I was probably a ’supply-sider’ based on the fact that I really didn’t jump into the issue.” [The New Republic, 1/31/00

Just last month, McCain proposed a plan to outsource dealing with the economy. The Washington Post reported, “Sen. John McCain on Tuesday proposed a commission to study the economic crisis along the lines of the one that investigated the Sept. 11 attacks.”

More recently, the McCain campaign has tried to “turn the page” on the economy and has stated, “If we keep talking about the economic crisis, we’re going to lose.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/13/mccain-study-economy/#comments

PamB on October 13, 2008 at 06:38 PM

Pam,

They think Independents know or care about ACORN? Their lunatic fringe base doesn't even care...they want Osama bloodlust and talk of lynching the terrorist.

The Undecided are worried about their jobs...and whether McCain is capable of sitting through a Cabinet meeting without wandering out of the room.

Who is going to run the government if McCain wins? That is a question that is legitimate and I think needs to raised. Who will be his advisers? Phil Graham and Todd Palin?

McCain is back to talking about himself...how glorious his military and public life has been. He's bored talking about the worries of middle class people he doesn't know or relate to...you can sense that his whole presidency will center around him marching off to war.

Are people so overwhelmed by the current economic situation that they might actually prefer to follow him marching into glory instead of hold their ground and demand that we rebuild America instead? Those kids better get out their vote...and make a lot of noise.

Maybe that is what is needed in the next three weeks...a lot of GOTV activities for the young? Obama needs to prime the youth pump?

I also want Hillary to do huge rallies for women voters in all the swing states. Bill needs to challenge the baby boomers to remember the 1990's like nobody else can...give him a stage and a huge audience to work. Let them both work the cameras...with Obama. It's time to make this personal.

Joe should move back to Pennsylvania and do every Octoberfest celebration he can find. He's the rock this whole campaign rest on. Let him mix and mingle with blue collar workers in swing states.

After this last debate, its time to let it rip. We can't do anything about the economy besides increase the public's confidence that "Yes We Can" and will fix it. Voters have to see the confidence we have in ourselves.

And maybe a prayer vigil for our troops in every big city the Sunday before the election? Yes, we do support the troops and are as patriotic as the other side. Why don't we show people?

Jefferson_Madison_2008 on October 13, 2008 at 07:20 PM
I don't know where you got all of that but you are 'painting' some important issues with very 'broad' strokes and stretching to compare Sen. Obama's stance with the stance and policies of the Bush Administration.
Besides, what the Bush Administration says they believe in and what they actually do are often two different things.
For instance, Bush and Sen. Obama both are Christians as are the MAJORITY of people in this country, as am I. Bush represents Christianity by lying to the American People, Congress, not to mention the United Nations to take us to an illegal war of agression and occupation. That is not how I perceive Sen. Obama or myself representing Christianity.
See the difference?

1. Abstinence:

You can't be serious? This is your #1 complaint? Where to you live in the City of Embers? You do realize that the rest of us know this is a Republican chain e-mail issued by your RNC?

Hello fine Dems

Bush is a supporter of "abstinence only" programs. You know, the kind that worked so well for Sarah Palin's daughter??? Bush does not support contraception of any kind. He certainly does not support teaching teens about contraception or evern sex for that matter.

bbl

Chicago on October 13, 2008 at 09:00 PM
Hi Chicago:
In a world of over-crowding and world hunger, I personally consider it irresponsible not to educate and support 'family planning.' Anyone, anywhere who wishes to use contraception to plan their family should be supported and lauded. Those who wish to ban contraception should be held up to ridicule.
Further, in a world where having sex can mean a death sentence with AIDS, promoting the use of condoms is the most responsible thing we can do.
Not only are they unwilling to promote acting in a responsible manner, they actually do all within their power to prevent others from doing so. It's just one of many, many reasons that I have zero respect for the current administration. Bush uses his position to impose the very narrow minded views of the Republican Base on others the world over. This policy will - in the end - probably be responsible for more deaths the world than the number of deaths in Iraq.

They think Independents know or care about ACORN? Their lunatic fringe base doesn't even care...they want Osama bloodlust and talk of lynching the terrorist.

Sandy, They cannot be so stupid as to not realize that it does not even matter what kind of registrations are turned in----it all ends up on election day, at the poll, with ID and a street address to check off. And when those cards are turned into the Voter Registrars to key in, they are Checked !
Gawd, Republicans are stupid !

Republicans are stupid !

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PamB on October 13, 2008 at 09:15 PM

Not to mention, DESPERATE!

Well, Dumb A$$ Cactus shows up. Tell us, Dumb A$$,
why did you vote for the worst President in History, not once, but TWICE?
Why do you enjoy being lied to and having the economy destroyed? Tell us, Why do you support J. McCain? Do you believe that he has the best interest of the middle class at heart? All he plans to do is continue and expand the Bush policies that have gotten us into this mess in the first place. Even conservatives agree that his behavior is, at best, erratic and yet you still cling to this stupid notion that by supporting someone who only wants to make the richest 1% even richer, you will somehow benefit. How can you be so stupid and why would we pay any attention to opinions of someone as ignorant as you?

marymac, and childish,and foolish!!! :)

heading out myself, Dems. will blog ya all tomorrow.

go read Sandy's 7:37. Some good ideas there.

Do not take anything for granted, Dems. Karl rove is still out there with his evil, dirty tricks, and he will not take this laying down, so keep up the fight like we were tied !

Well, Dumb A$$ Cactus shows up. Tell us, Dumb A$$,
why did you vote for the worst President in History, not once, but TWICE?
Why do you enjoy being lied to and having the economy destroyed? Tell us, Why do you support J. McCain? Do you believe that he has the best interest of the middle class at heart? All he plans to do is continue and expand the Bush policies that have gotten us into this mess in the first place. Even conservatives agree that his behavior is, at best, erratic and yet you still cling to this stupid notion that by supporting someone who only wants to make the richest 1% even richer, you will somehow benefit. How can you be so stupid and why would we pay any attention to opinions of someone as ignorant as you?

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gregg on October 13, 2008 at 10:25 PM

Couldn't we buy the Cubs instead...before Spunky buys them and begins another curse? Or a NFL team...that would make Elisabeth Hasselbeck happy, maybe.

23Dan_A_Cactus** on October 13, 2008 at 09:40 PM

Wow, you seem overly defensive about your vote for Carter.

Hey don't worry we won't tell anyone.

Are you afraid that the other trolls will make fun of you because you voted for Carter?

23Dan_A_Cactus** on October 13, 2008 at 09:40 PM

We won't tell anyone you voted for Carter.

(snicker)

Why doesn't the RNC have their own blog?

I will guarantee you it was rove operatives that filled out those ACORN bogus forms. You betcha, while the focus is on ACORN the republican owned MSM says nothing about the tens of thousands of voters purged for no reason at all in the swing states.

I thought Obama was going after this today, maybe he is waiting until tomorrow, but he can't wait too long or it will be too late.

The very thought of the republicans crying election fraud after Florida and Ohio, is just remarkable.

This is there new tact, palin out sowing the seeds of election fraud, so when they lose, they can keep their morons together in anger.

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Jefferson_Madison_2008 on October 13, 2008 at 07:20 PM

Well Jefferson, I just sent a complete copy of your new republican e-mail campaign to baracks web site. I'm sure they will be tracking you now from here to see who the hell you are.

Thank you for your stupidity, we might even be able to make a poster child out of you.

sally seems a bit wound up this morning. could it be it suspects that it's bradley effect may not really win the white house for mcbush??hahahaha...

oh by the way who would have guessed that socialism would come to the banking industry during a republican administration?? looks like the presidummie is doing an fdr imitation....hahaha..

from the wall street urinal:

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. government is expected to take stakes in nine of the nation's top financial institutions as part of a new plan to restore confidence to the battered U.S. banking system, a far-reaching effort that puts the government's guarantee behind the basic plumbing of financial markets.

WSJ:

"To kick off Tuesday's expected announcement, the government is set to buy preferred equity stakes in Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Bank of America Corp. -- including the soon-to-be acquired Merrill Lynch -- Citigroup Inc., Wells Fargo & Co., Bank of New York Mellon and State Street Corp., according to people familiar with the matter.

Some of the big banks were unhappy about the government taking equity stakes, but acquiesced under pressure from Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson in a meeting Monday. During the financial crisis, the government has steadily increased its involvement in financial markets, culminating with a move that rivals the breadth of the government's response to the Great Depression. It intertwines the banking sector with the federal government for years to come and gives taxpayers a direct stake in the future of American finance, including any possible losses..."

look ma no free marktet!! hahahahaha

we're all bankers now! hahahahaha...

this from realclearpolitics is a gem:

It's pathetic to hear right-wing talk radio blowhards try to associate Barack Obama with "radical" or "socialist" views when a Republican administration is tossing aside "Atlas Shrugged" and speed-reading "Das Kapital."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/11/us/politics/11mccain.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Is McCain even eligible to be president? It seems there is a court challenge to him being a 'natural born citizen' within the Constitutional text, and the timing of laws passed...

actually sally kerry and bush were tied at 48% at exactly this point in 04...but hey why mince numbers when you have that bradley effect going for you...hahahahaha

hey sally do you think mcbush will dance with palin to the song " crazy" on election night the way ross perot did back in 92??

"VIRGINIA BEACH — A feisty John McCain rallied the Republican faithful on Monday, unveiling an edgier stump speech for the final three weeks of the presidential campaign and vowing to fight aggressively through Nov. 4.

Before a Virginia Beach crowd in a state usually in the GOP column, McCain shifted from attacking Democratic rival Barack Obama for ties to 1960s radical Bill Ayers and instead bristled that "the national media has written us off."

"We've got them just where we want them," the GOP nominee said.

McCain distanced himself from the Bush administration..."

yup i think "crazy" would be just the song...

sally wtf? at this point in 2000 bush and gore were in a tie at 44%....i guess you figure if bush/mcbush and palin can just make shit up so can you....

more good news for republicans!!!!

National Reuters/C-Span/Zogby Tracking Obama 49, McCain 43 Obama +6

Colorado Quinnipiac/WSJ/WP Obama 52, McCain 43 Obama +9

hahahahaha

quinnipiac gives good poll:

October 14, 2008 - Obama Surges In Four Battleground States, Quinnipiac University/Wall Street Journal/ Washingtonpost.Com Poll Finds ---
COLORADO: Obama 52 - McCain 43 pre-debate / Obama 52 - McCain 43 post debate

MICHIGAN: Obama 55 - McCain 37 pre-debate / Obama 54 - McCain 38 post debate

MINNESOTA: Obama 51 - McCain 43 pre-debate / Obama 51 - McCain 40 post debate

WISCONSIN: Obama 51 - McCain 43 pre-debate / Obama 54 - McCain 37 post debate

Morning Gregg, Morning Dems.

Looks like the GOP is squealing bloody murder over some of the tricks they themselves used in the last elections! I get such a kick out of these Republicans! It is like watching a thief all indignant, when he gets robbed himself! HEY, that's not fair, they yell! LOL.

But wait. Read this. It gives you an idea how even one day register and votes are not an issue.

Ohio GOP Plays Voter Fraud Card

Columbus, Ohio - If Republican lawsuits and rhetoric are any indication, the specter of voting fraud is looming large over the November election.

A weeklong period in which new voters can register and immediately cast a ballot? Ripe for voting fraud. The state's method of verifying voter registration information? Insufficient to prevent voter fraud.

Voter fraud was a buzz phrase for the Ohio GOP when it pushed voter identification requirements through the state Legislature in 2005. It's now a driving factor behind a flurry of GOP lawsuits leveled against Democratic Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, seeking either to restrict early voting or mandate how voter information should be checked.

But do the arguments come with supporting evidence that voter fraud is prominent, or that the current election system isn't catching it when it does happen? No.

Voter fraud is not a widely studied phenomenon, but the vast majority who have studied allegations say that it's extremely rare.

"There's a lot more rhetoric than reality when it comes to actual voter fraud," said Dan Tokaji, an elections law expert at Ohio State University. "There's this public perception that voter fraud is common when the reality is that it's quite rare."

A 2005 report by the League of Women Voters of Ohio and the Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio found that of about 9 million votes cast in the state from 2002-2004, there were four fraudulent ballots. The data was collected from interviews with all 88 county boards of elections.

"Voter fraud" is often construed to include fraudulent registrations turned in by activist voter registration groups. Most infamously, names like Jive Turkey, Mary Poppins and Dick Tracy showed up in a 2004 registration drive and were cited by GOP lawmakers as demonstrating the pressing need to employ anti-fraud measures, such as requiring voter ID.

The GOP often points to groups like the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, which have routinely been accused of fraud and are currently under investigation in Cuyahoga County and across the country. ACORN said Wednesday that it can't possibly make sure that all the registrations it turns in are valid.

But this is not voter fraud, it's voter registration fraud. The two are not the same. Jive Turkey isn't showing up at the polls asking for a ballot.

This type of voter fraud happens when an unqualified voter actually casts an actual ballot in an election. This type of activity is extremely rare, says a 2007 report by the nonpartisan Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law.

In the U.S. Supreme Court case on Indiana's law requiring a photo ID at the polls, the state could not present one example of a voter going to the polls and pretending to be someone he or she was not, Tokaji said. The court upheld the state law, despite the lack of evidence.

People attempting to commit voter fraud in Ohio's November election would have to impersonate someone they're not, and do so despite voter identification requirements. Or they must register under a false Ohio name and address and have the ID to back it up.

http://www.truthout.org/101308R

Morning gregg,

Hitler also took over the banks so he could finance his war machine.

Just change the name to mcchimp and you have mccain.

He says he has a new economic plan.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

He is probably going to sell the White House and Pentagon to Iran and privatize all government. After all why do we need a government when we have the free market to give us jobs and a mercenary army to protect us.

PamB on October 13, 2008 at 07:18 PM

Won't have time to study up? Really? What does John McCain think a President-elect does in those three months between the election and inauguration? Go to Disneyworld?

by Babu G. Ranganathan

Many in our society have been brainwashed to believe that an absolutely free market place with no government controls or regulations would automatically fix our nation's problems. Have we forgotten already that the Great Depression of the early 1930's was the direct result of a free market economy with no government control or regulation?

More.............

Rational and Moral Basis of Populism'

So mccain is going to come on like a tiger at the debate Wednesday night. To use a hackneyed phrase brought to us by none other than the chimp, "bring it on".

mccain is setting himself up to be tweaked by Obama and he will lose his cool and look like a fool to the American people.

Of course his die-hard, beer swilling, macho red-neck fans will love him for losing his cool and most likely sell tickets. Will the "pit bull" with lipstick be in the audience?

Thom Hartman had a republican senator on yesterday who said the entire financial crisis was his doing. He also blames greenspan. These hedge funds are completely out of control. I didn't catch his name but he was really spilling his guts.

Thom said that he finally found an honest republican. I will look for his name on Thom Hartman's site.

How many times will we allow mcgeezer to reboot his campaign? Three strikes and he's out.

I wonder what palin is going to talk about now that she has been muzzled? Or has she. She said yesterday that she is glad that the Alaska legislature cleared her of all charges in the Troopergate scandal. WTF planet does this woman live on?

Off to work. bbl.

bush/mccain economics. What a laugh. bush probably flunked economics at Yale and mccain confessed that he knows nothing about economics. raygun, bush1, bush2 and macain set us for the Great Republican Depression of 2009. Don't be fooled by their inexperience and lies. Furthermore, palin left wasila $22 million in debt. mccain would appoint phil gramm or that woman from her failed job at HP to be secretary of the treasuring. We cannot afford these inept people.

Do we really want people like this running our economic future?

I for one vote a resounding NO F*****G WAY!

On another note, gingrich was telling the press yesterday that mccain is not being hostile enough toward Obama. Why isn't gingrich in prison along with KKKarl?

Well you are stupid pammy, people in Ohio, registered and voted the same day.

18Dan_A_Cactus** on October 13, 2008 at 09:28 PM

NO DANNY, IT IS YOU WHO IS SO IGNORANT

Try and grasp your little mind around what the SOS of Ohio is saying here !!!!!

"Juan Gonzalez: The New York Post today has a front-page article that touches in part on situations going on in Ohio, claiming that the group ACORN has been involved in fraudulent voter registration at apparently massive levels, according to some of their reports. What is your concern about these allegations of fraud in voter registration and people voting more than once?

Jennifer Brunner: We have things built into our law so that anytime someone registers, even if they register and vote on the same day, a notification card is sent to them at their address. If that card comes back, that certainly puts that registration into question. The poll book is marked, and if that person were to show up at the polling place, Ohio law now requires that Ohioans show ID, although our ID law is much more liberal than, for instance, Indiana's.

So-and then also our boards of elections do enter those voter registration applications into a database that automatically is sent to the Secretary of State's database. We're connected with T1 lines. We run that, of course, through the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, who sends it on to the Social Security Administration if it can't get a match on driver's license.

So, we think there are some excellent safeguards built into the law, but our own experience with ACORN in Ohio is there have been some problems in the past, but the person who we work with, when there are questions from ACORN is Katy Gall, who is a very experienced and conscientious, and we've had nothing but good experiences working with her.

http://www.truthout.org/101308VA

gregg, did you read this one?

I don't know if you saw any of McCain's pre-ballyhooed "new" stump speech yesterday, but if you did, you also saw the above proposition confirmed by the candidate himself. For starters, it was a "greatest hits" speech rather than anything even remotely new (the debut of his even more ballyhooed fresh economic plan was mysteriously postponed), indicating a campaign all used up.

More telling, though, was the used-up, warmed-over and burned-out dullness of McCain's delivery. If he radiated any emotion at all, it was that of despair. He looked as though he had just come from a disabusing meeting with his pallbearer pollsters, reminding me of Walter Mondale's 1984 observation that he'd occasionally get charged up by enthusiastic crowds, but then get his teeth kicked in by his pollsters in private. It was, said Mondale, a most dispiriting routine.

Even the usually fawning Sarah Palin, propped up behind McCain, cardboardlike, looked knowingly depressed and even a trifle inclined to blurt, "Oh, stuff a sock in it, John. It's over."

That's probably because our good gubernatorial ethicist had just read the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll, the most devastating and damn-near conclusive yet.

Other than its stark, snapshot percentages of 53 to 43 -- thunderous advantage, Obama -- the poll issued a general pronouncement of inevitability and doom: "The two presidential nominees appear to be on opposite trajectories, with Sen. Barack Obama gaining momentum and Sen. John McCain stalled or losing ground on a range of issues and personal traits."

One had to go long and deep to find anything positive for McCain

http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/carpenter/211

THE REPUBLICANS SHOULD KEEP THEIR MOUTHS SHUT ABOUT VOTER FRAUD! AND ABOUT ACORN. ONLY THE EASILY MANIPULATED BASE WOULD BELIEVE A WORD THEY SAY !

BuzzFlash Talks with Greg Palast About Republican Voter Suppression.

"However, the Republican cry of 'Vote Fraud!' has become the cover for purges and challenges to legal voters by the millions. I even tracked down and filmed some of these so-called fraudulent voters handed me from a GOP list. Every one was a legal voter."

Greg Palast and BuzzFlash go back to the election of 2000. At that time, large progressive political news sites were hard to come by – and there was only one investigative reporter who was able to unravel the theft of the Florida election: Greg Palast.

Greg didn’t just expose the mugging of democracy. As a University of Chicago trained researcher, he was able to detail how Katherine Harris used an outside vendor to create caging lists that prevented legitimate voters from casting their ballots. In fact, Greg has a laptop presentation that actually shows you the lists that Harris’s office worked from in keeping minorities from voting.

Of course, Greg’s investigation on vote theft – which has branched out widely in the intervening years – is persuasive and thorough enough for the BBC and British newspapers, but not for the corporate press in America! We kid you not.

To this day, Palast is effectively banned from reaching the mainstream American voter because television stations and big papers are owned by companies that don’t want to rock the vote. It might hurt their tax cuts or efforts to deregulate media ownership.

BUZZFLASH: You have been investigating the coordinated and vigorous GOP effort to suppress and steal votes since the theft of the election in 2000. You and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. just did a BBC Documentary on what nefarious voter suppression tactics the Republicans have in store for us in 2008? Can you summarize some of the methods that the GOP are using to disenfranchise non-Republican voters prior to the election, to prevent them from voting during the election, and to keep their votes from being counted after the polls close?

PALAST: It's ugly. Consider:

- In THE swing state, Colorado, we found that the Republican Secretary of State wiped out 19.4% - one in five - voter names in an unnoticed mass purge.

- In swing-state New Mexico, in the February caucus, one in nine Democrats found their names missing from the voter rolls supplied by the State. The elections supervisor of San Miguel County - who's own name was missing from the rolls - has no confidence the state contractors will fix it. Our statistical analysis showed there was a direct relationship between your name and your race and income. The poor and the dark were disappeared.

- In Indiana, you heard about 10 nuns who lost their vote because their ID - drivers' licenses - had expired (they were all over eighty). But what about the others? We've calculated that 143,000 others were turned away - disproportionately Blacks and new voters.

And so on and so on.

BUZZFLASH: BuzzFlash has been covering one public relations effort by the Republican National Committee to create a false context for claiming voter fraud. In short, they have been attacking a national community organizing group called ACORN with news releases, lawsuits, surrogate assaults, etc., falsely claiming (as they did in 2004 and 2006) that ACORN is engaged in the massive illegal registration of primarily minority voters. Can you explain the significance of the ACORN slander by the RNC?

http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/interviews/129

BBL............

morning demos. just a quick mention before the mcsame deposits his economic plan.

mccain w/13 cars and 8 houses?

his plan for the working american? the middle of the road taxpayer? the one looking for health insurance? the one looking to stay in his house? the one hoping the family car continues running for the time being?

maybe really more of the (bush) same ... just dust off the old plans, rearrange the pages, and put in a new cover.

enjoy the day, maybe, just maybe, a new day is coming. obama-biden '08

Good morning, all.

Even the usually fawning Sarah Palin, propped up behind McCain, cardboardlike, looked knowingly depressed and even a trifle inclined to blurt, "Oh, stuff a sock in it, John. It's over."

PamB on October 14, 2008 at 08:49 AM

Pam,

Did you see the reports on MSNBC last night about the "House That Todd Built"?

Mayor Palin discontinued building permits just months before he husband reportedly build the new McMansion. Todd said he and his "dear friends" built the house in just a matter of about three months during the middle of the snowmobile season.

Since there was no record of who the contractors would have been to finish off the plumbing, electrical, ect., reporters have been scrambling to find the subcontractors directly. Bingo, they are the same ones that Ted Stevens got free work from.

Up until this April, Palin had backed Stevens (until he was indicted). The subcontractors and architects are the same ones Palin awarded work to in her $14 million rec center that Wisilla is still in debt for building. One subcontractor admitted they did work but would not comment further as they are star witnesses in the Steven's trail...and may have cut a plea bargain?

Spiro Agnew was the first and last Governor to be charged with corruption in the building trades and had to resign as V.P. It looks there could possibly be another?

No wonder Bill Kristol is so pissed and Palin looks punk.

Just an observation...

sally* doesn't defend McCain all night; only attacks the Democratic opponent.

Gotta run. later.

Sandy, Our CT Governor Rowland, was indicted a few years ago and fired, due to taking jacuzzis and work on his deck and house in exchange for contracts.

Also, Sally hates McCain, and prays for his death shortly after January 20th. Sally just hates in general. That happens to the mentally ill, who's wife kicks them out, who gets caught in Mail fraud and indicted,who has filed bankruptcy more times than not, who's only kid is at the age where she would rather be with friends than go spend a weekend with her old father in the woods, where everyone in town thinks you are the town weirdo, etc.

Good morning, all!

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