Bless you Teddy, and FDL, for recognizing MY SENATOR.

Is he REALLY THAT good a Senator?

Just stay tuned, dawgies.

He reminds me of Barack. Gobs of energy, skill and determination, with an ego big enough to dare tackle the big problems, but not so large that it eclipses his true honest-to-goodness public spirit.

And if you happen upon this, THANKS Sherrod!

Both campaigns have lined up teams of lawyers to challenge any irregularities, from registrations to polling place problems to vote counts.

And experts say the problems ahead will be formidable, even if they don’t rise to the level of the Supreme Court challenge over the 2000 results.

“The voting process is going to be tested in a way it has not been in recent history,” said Tova Wang, vice president for research at Common Cause, a government watchdog group.

Recent local primaries have offered warning signs.

In the District last week, initial tallies were inflated by thousands of votes, causing chaos that night, and officials have yet to explain the problem.

In Palm Beach County, Fla., more than 3,500 ballots went missing in an August primary, forcing workers to hunt through bins and leaving a judicial election still undecided.

That same day, equipment problems in two other Florida jurisdictions delayed results for hours.

Premier Election Solutions, the company that makes many of the nation’s voting machines, last month acknowledged that software used in 34 states, including Virginia and Maryland, could cause votes to be dropped. The company, formerly called Diebold, said it has no fix for the problem now, but election officials can catch the errors and recover the votes through a routine process of double-checking electronic memory cards.

Any weak spots in the process in November, whether poorly trained poll workers, a confusing ballot design or faulty equipment, will be further stressed by turnout, including many first-time voters.

During this year’s presidential primaries, the number of voters hit an eight-year high in 36 states, according to Electionline.org, which monitors electoral reforms as part of the Pew Center on the States.

Maryland election officials said Tuesday that they expect 250,000 new voters to register by next month’s deadline. More than 280,000 Virginians have registered to vote since the beginning of the year.

In the battleground state of Nevada, there are 400,000 more voters registered than four years ago. More than 500,000 have registered in Indiana since the beginning of the year, prompting Secretary of State Todd Rokita to say this could be “the biggest Election Day in our nation’s history in terms of turnout.”

Federal officials estimate that 2 million poll workers will be needed to handle the turnout, twice 2004’s number and a goal states are scrambling to meet.

link to full article

http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..63_pf.html

the Dave Clark Five

I know everyone’s long gone, but such a great line has to be recognized!

Hilarious, and certainly lost on anyone here under 40.

No…The Keating investigators found no illegal activities on McCains part, but found him guilty of ‘bad judgement’