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A New Political Party Is Needed

Set aside any Obama euphoria you feel. The other important news is that third-party presidential candidates had a miserable showing this year, totaling just over one percent of the grand total with 1.5 million votes nationwide, compared to some 123 million votes for Barack Obama and John McCain.

Bill Folman: Maybe You Shouldn't Vote

Sure, everyone likes to think he or she is a good voter, just like everyone likes to think he or she is attractive and has a sense of humor. Sadly, the numbers do not support these claims.

Top 3 Mistakes That Are Costing Senator McCain the Election

Senator John McCain is losing the Presidential Election by a wide margin and there are three significant, obvious and costly mistakes that he's making that might cost him the election.

On the waning days of madmen in the media

Keith Olbermann rips President Obama, a sobbing Bill O'Reilly minus pants, and eating the heart of Sean Hannity. All this and more in a reflection on the imminent end of a wild and pathetic era of TV journalism...

Finnish E-Voting System Loses 2% of Votes

Finland piloted a fully electronic voting system in municipal elections last weekend. Due to a usability glitch, 232 votes, or about 2% of all electronic votes were lost. The results of the election may have been affected, because the seats in municipal assemblies are often decided by margins of a few votes. Unfortunately, nobody knows for sure, because the Ministry of Justice didn't see any need to implement a voter-verified paper record. The ministry was, of course, duly warned about a fully electronic voting system, but the critique was debunked as 'science fiction.' There is now discussion about re-arranging the affected elections. Thanks go to the voting system providers, Scytl and TietoEnator, for the experience.

Serbs Commit Electoral Fraud in Srebrenica to Legalize Results of Srebrenica Genocide

Dnevni Avaz daily has called on the Office of the Prosecutor to investigate the case of election fraud in local municipal elections in Srebrenica. On October 5th, large groups of Serbian citizens arrived by busses from Serbia to vote in Srebrenica municipal elections. They used fake LK/OI-4 forms and unverified voting ballots. This is another orchestrated method of electoral fraud aimed at legalizing results of Srebrenica genocide that claimed lives of 10,000 Bosniaks - men, children, and elderly.

McCain camp hyped attack tale before truth emerged

A spokesman for the McCain campaign gave reporters an inflammatory version of Thursday's hoax story about a McCain volunteer being attacked by a man who carved a "B" into her face, Pittsburgh's KDKA reported...

The Choice: Comment: The New Yorker

Never in living memory has an election been more critical than the one fast approaching-that's the quadrennial cliché, as expected as the balloons and the bombast. And yet when has it ever felt so urgently true? When have so many Americans had so clear a sense that a Presidency has-at the levels of competence, vision, and integrity-undermined the country and its ideals?

Is it time to scrap the Electoral College?

Umm, yes! The system can be idiosyncratic. Four times in the nation's history, the winner of the largest number of popular votes did not win the largest number of electoral votes, and therefore did not become president.

McCain uses term ‘tar baby’ - msnbc.com

Republican presidential contender John McCain on Friday used the term "tar baby," considered by some a racial epithet, and later said he regretted it.

America must look evil if it looks like Obama

...[T]hat's not Obama. It's Osama bin Laden. Notice how the original photo has been tinted a la the infamous O.J. Simpson photo on the cover of Time...

Is Your Vote Safe?

"There are about 30 scams the Republicans are deliberately using, particularly in the swing states to get Democratic voters off the rolls. These scams originate in the so-called Help America Vote Act, which was passed after the Florida debacle in the year 2000. It was originally suggested by Democrats and Republicans, but it was passed by a Republican Congress with a Republican Senate and a Republican president. And instead of reforming what happened in Florida, it basically institutionalized all the problems that happened in Florida."

Local Attorney general McKenna sues builders groups over campaign violations

Attorney General Rob McKenna took legal action Friday against two builders groups accused of breaking state campaign-finance laws. McKenna filed a lawsuit against the Master Builders Association of King and Snohomish Counties and a second lawsuit against a subsidiary of the Building Industry Association of Washington (BIAW).

Neo-Nazi Magazine to Feature Obama Assassination Cover

Neo-Nazi boss Bill White, long given to swaggering threats and proposals for violence, this week went even further than normal - announcing plans for a magazine cover headlined "Kill This ******?" with a photo of Barack Obama and, two days later, publishing the home address of a juror who helped convict another neo-Nazi leader in a federal conspiracy case.

Since when are education and eloquence liabilities in a president?

Isn't it ludicrous even to ask such a question? Apparently not, in the presidential race of 2008...