Election

Stevens Trailing By 3 Votes In Alaska Senate Race

Posted by Jeff from Huffington Post

Republican Sen. Ted Stevens, a titan of Alaska politics convicted of felony charges last month, fell behind by three votes Wednesday as the count resumed in his re-election bid. Democrat Mark Begich, the two-term mayor of Anchorage, began Wednesday down more than 3,200 votes but closed the gap as officials resumed counting early and absentee ballots. The tally was 125,019 to 125,016.

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The Mystery of the Missing Alaskan Voters - ProPublica

Posted by Jeff from Feeds.propublica

Lesser blames Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, Stevens and Young for turning off independent voters that would otherwise have gone to the polls for them. But David Dittman, whose Anchorage-based polling group Dittman Research is used by Republicans, says it was more likely the Democratic-leaning voters who stayed home. Dittman attributes the low turnout to the expectation that Begich and Berkowitz would win handily and the news coverage showing long lines. "They believed reports of long lines and long waits, and the need to bring a book," said Dittman. "And they thought, why endure the discomfort?"

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t r u t h o u t | What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been

Posted by jesse from Truth Out

Bill Ayers responds, post-election

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Palin Gets Pranked! LOL

Posted by j1o2n3a4s5 from Associated Press

Sarah Palin unwittingly took a prank call Saturday from a Canadian comedian posing as French President Nicolas Sarkozy and telling her she would make a good president someday....

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4481532/Sarah_Palin_Prank_Call_

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Political Cortex: The Role of Hope, Fear and Race in the Election of the President

Posted by Villagenyc from politicalcortex

LINK to POLITICAL CORTEX

Excerpt:

Despite polls predicting otherwise, one of the three raised doubts about a Democratic win, a hope they all said they subscribed to.

The doubter worried that while the potential election of the African American candidate created the appearance that race no longer plays an active role in American politics, the fear remained, racism could rear its ugly head on election day.

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Former Bush press secretary backs Obama

Posted by okami from Yahoo News!

Colin Powell was the first former official of the Bush Administration to endorse Barack Obama in the upcoming election.

Now Scott McClellan stands with him.

What are they trying to tell us?

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The Choice: Comment: The New Yorker

Posted by Jenzaka from 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?

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