This comes after reports, at Campaign Silo, of YPM shenanigans for Nader in Arizona.

not shenanigans – just collecting signatures for petitions. doesn’t mean something else won’t turn up or that there isn’t more to it. but there’s no evidence of any shenanigans wrt nader at this point.

Seems like YPM presents a good counter to McCain’s ACORN blather. Don’t suppose it’ll receive a comparable level of coverage.

Did Bill Kristol put the hex on the Red Sox this morning?

Isn’t this great. The Rethugs always accuse the Dems of doing whatever it is they themselves are actually doing. Uncle Karl’s playbook, page 237.

I had a smart boss one time who used to tell me that thieves are basically lazy. Eventually they mess up, because they just don’t work hard enough to keep the scheme going.

Hi Teddy….. a local radio host interviewed the National Director for ACORN Financial Justice Center…… anyone can listen to this in depth interview answering questions about ACORN at this link Action Point Online… go to the link “download show”.

Bebunks all the Faux spin

You’d think that sooner or later somebody would cut the crap and just start investigating the GOP based on whatever accusations they make. It would have to save time.

unfortunately this may be too complicated for the low info portion of the electorate to sort out, and the RNC will spin this against us as part of the Acorn/Obama conspiracy they allege. if we want to use it and prevent them from using it against us we need to quicky get out there with the meme: “republican election fraud” and “republican hypocrites caught red handed” etc

Actually, I would call them stupid and lazy. Someone who is just lazy (such as myself) recognizes that the easiest path of all is telling the truth and following the rules.

Far less to have to deal with and remember.

Five page report up on the questions concerning the candidates’ health up at NYT

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10…..ref=slogin

Awesome.

All that attention in 2006 on electing non-corrupt Sec’s State in California and Ohio is looking pretty good this year.

So what’s next? Where’s the pivot point for 2010?

dumb question though… I assume this is about 8 or something right? they don’t seriously
plan to contend in CA for the
presidency do they?

btw, looks like Obama plans to intensify operations in WV, ND and GA. the wave continues

I just read that. Had been led to believe it would contain some new insight regarding McCain’s health but consists entirely of previously reported info as far as I can tell.

the post over at C&L about the hate voice mails & emails directed at ACORN…
More Hate Voicemails directed at ACORN.

SICK sick sick

Everything is too complicated for the low-info voter but as you mentioned, it is important to immediately tag it as “Republican election fraud.”

tbogg upstairs

Make space, darlin’; that’s my favorite bench. *g*

I had a remote control malfunction today and wound up watching Faux News for a minute or two, These morons really believe that Joe the Plummer is going to save them!

Car crash kills Pennsylvania state senator

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (AP) — A longtime Pennsylvania state senator has died after his Cadillac collided head-on with a truck.

Legislative leaders say Sen. James Rhoades died Saturday. He and his wife, Mary, were taken to a hospital after the crash Friday.

Senate aides say Mary Rhoades’ injuries were not believed to be life-threatening. The accident is being investigated.

The 66-year-old Republican had served for seven terms and was chairman of the Education Committee. He was campaigning for an eighth term.

A Senate Republican spokesman says the party would have to get a court’s permission to remove Rhoades’ name from the ballot and replace him.

He started in the Senate in 1981 and represents northeastern Pennsylvania’s coal country.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/10/…..index.html

Reminds me of this from wiki

In the Republican primary, Ashcroft defeated Marc Perkel.[2] In the general election, Ashcroft faced a challenge from then-Governor Mel Carnahan. In the midst of a tight race, Carnahan died in an airplane crash two weeks prior to the November general election. Carnahan’s name remained on the ballot because of Missouri state election laws. Lieutenant Governor Roger Wilson became Governor upon Carnahan’s death. Wilson announced that should Carnahan be elected, he would appoint his widow, Jean Carnahan, to serve in her husband’s place; Mrs. Carnahan agreed to this arrangement. Ashcroft suspended all campaigning after the plane crash in light of the tragedy.

In spite of his being dead, voters elected Mel Carnahan by a narrow margin. No one had ever posthumously won election to the Senate, though voters had on at least three occasions chosen deceased candidates for the House.

and this

On October 25, 2002, Wellstone died, along with seven others, in a plane crash in northern Minnesota, at approximately 10:22 a.m. He was 58.
Wellstone’s death came just 11 days before his potential re-election in a crucial race to maintain Democratic control of the Senate. Campaigning was halted by all sides. Minnesota law required that his name be struck from the ballot, to be replaced by a candidate chosen by the party. The replacement candidate was former Vice President Walter Mondale, who accepted the nomination and later lost the election to Republican Norm Coleman.

The 20,000-capacity memorial service for Wellstone and the other victims of the crash was held in Williams Arena at the University of Minnesota and was broadcast live on national TV. Many high profile politicians attended the memorial, including former President Bill Clinton, Senator Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, Senator Ted Kennedy, Senator Trent Lott, and Governor Tommy Thompson.

It should, but it likely won’t.

Although the LATimes did cover it today:

SACRAMENTO — The owner of a firm that the California Republican Party hired to register tens of thousands of voters this year was arrested in Ontario late last night on suspicion of voter registration fraud.

State and local investigators allege that Mark Jacoby fraudulently registered himself to vote at a childhood California address where he no longer lives so he would appear to meet the legal requirement that signature gatherers be eligible to vote in California.

Pro.
Jec.
Tion.

Explains why they are always obsessing about voter fraud.

from wiki

At the time of Rhoades’ death, he was running for his eighth term in the State Senate, making him second behind Stewart Greenleaf on the list of longest serving senators.[3] With absentee ballots having already been mailed in the state, courts may not allow Rhoades’ name to be removed from the ballot. Should district voters re-elect Rhoades, his seat would be filled by a special election shortly after the general election.[5]

This is OT, but my dad is going to be on Morning Edition tomorrow, an interview by John Burnett, “Atomic Ed and the Black Hole.” Or something like that. I know it is pledge week and all, so whatever. But my dad is a good guy.

Beside the point…but can you even believe Mondale lost to Norm? I had forgotten that little detail. Gave me a jolt.

Cool!
Is your Dad a physicist?

Can you imagine Norm being your ob-gyn? Scares me to death.

Thanks for the note. John Burnett does good work…should be interesting.

In a word, NO….sort of makes me sick.

Actually the thought of my even needing an ob-gyn scares me to death.

No, he is teh anti-nuclear activist in Los Alamos. He’s been interviewed in many mags and newspapers from around the world. Ellen Spiro (from “Body of War”) made a film about him. She is coming this week to film him again, for another project she is doing. He won’t be around much longer, but he will keep after it until his dying breath.

Is this really news or a planted story? Sorry I question everything now.
Why would they or how could they have a web site online for a year?
Doesn’t seem right does it?

Al-Qaida’s Internet operation still struggling, but terror group denies cyber attack on it
By PAUL SCHEMM , Associated Press

Last update: October 19, 2008 – 11:02 AM

CAIRO, Egypt – The main Web sites that normally carry messages from the al-Qaida terror group remain inoperable more than a month after they went down just ahead of the seventh anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.

…

In the past week, a new Web site called “the Electronic jihad” also has resurfaced to counter renewed attacks on Islam online, according to its founders.

It is not clear, however, if the site has any connection with Al-Qaida.

Since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, al-Qaida has run sites on the Web that it has used to disseminate its messages. Many have been shut down over the years as new ones emerge.

The group over the years also has appeared to increasingly turn toward online forums, apparently so that it no longer has to rely on news stations to air video and audio messages.

Terror analysts have long seen al-Qaida’s media arm as a powerful tool for rallying the network’s followers and sympathizers, churning out videos and audiotapes even though the top leadership is mostly out of touch, hiding in the mountainous border regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan.

The videos have grown in technical sophistication, featuring computer animations and clips from international television media.

Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden has issued three audiotapes himself this year, the most recent in May.

The Arabic-language sites also have an extensive online following of would-be jihadis who discuss various topics, including the best ways to carry out attacks and which techniques are religiously permissible.

In its press release explaining the outage, Al-Fajr, the group’s communications wing promised to return online soon.

http://www.startribune.com/nat…..iaec8O7EyU

Thanks for telling us….and give him our thanks as well. Sounds like a hero to me.

teddy has a new post a few flights up

Well, this certainly starts my day on a high note.

It gets better.
Calif. Insurance commissioner (and failed millionaire gubernatorial candidate) Steve Poizner is apparently funding YPM.