Snark of the Day: Ann Coulter

A special Snark of the day for the constituents of the The 12th Pennsylvania congressional district from Blondie, b/k/a Ann Coulter:

This was such an enormous Democratic year that even John Murtha won his congressional seat in Pennsylvania after calling his constituents racists. It turns out they’re not racists – they’re retards. Question: What exactly would one have to say to alienate Pennsylvanians? That Joe Paterno should retire?

Voters of the Pennsylanvia 12 may be stupid or just greedy.

DRJ Patterico’s Pontifications gets warm on why the McCain-Palin ticket lost to a leftist moron:

To many conservatives, McCain’s maverick strain was not a selling point and his pick of Palin was not enough to reassure them. I understand those concerns. Does anyone doubt that, as President, the first thing McCain would have done is pursue a bipartisan agreement with the Democratic-controlled Congress? While that might be a good political tactic, it reinforces the idea that Washington politicians are interchangeable

Maverick is a good word.  Note however that McPain did not coin the term.  Rush Limbaugh did.   McPain only adopted it as campaign theme.   Limbaugh’s Maverick pardodies were not meant as compliments to McPain.   Yes Maverick is good word, but a better word for McCain would traitor to the cause.   McCain campioned Amensty, opposed tax cuts and helped gut the First Amendment, Campaign Finance Reform.  See how well that beauty worked.

As Karl Rove has said, elections are won by securing the bases.   McPain’s support from the base was weak  because the McCain stabbed conservatives in the back too many times.

The secret to for conservatives to win elections is to run real conservatives, not RINO”s like McPain.  The necessary step to eliminate RINO nominees, sure losers, to to abolish the open primary.  As republicans, we have no need to let democrats select our nominee.

Sarah12

The Wall Street Journal states the bloody obvious:

According to recent Gallup polls, the president’s average approval rating is below 30% — down from his 90% approval in the wake of 9/11. Mr. Bush has endured relentless attacks from the left while facing abandonment from the right.

This is the price Mr. Bush is paying for trying to work with both Democrats and Republicans. During his 2004 victory speech, the president reached out to voters who supported his opponent, John Kerry, and said, “Today, I want to speak to every person who voted for my opponent. To make this nation stronger and better, I will need your support, and I will work to earn it. I will do all I can do to deserve your trust.”

Those bipartisan efforts have been met with crushing resistance from both political parties.

Rejected from the Democrats because that’s what the Democrats do.  Reach out to them, they’ll break your arm… as Bush Sr found out. Remember that one? He broke his ‘no new takex pldge’ because the Democrats asked him to… which they then used to beat him about the head and shoulders in 1992. 

Of course that Clinton, upon winning, largly on the fact that Bush Sr tried to reach out and compromise with the Democrats on taxes… then turned around and broke his tax pldge before the echo from his oath of office had died, mattered to the Democrats not at all.

 His kid, W,  never learned that lesson either as we’ve said here many times.

Rejected from the Republicans, because they HAD learned that lesson. partcularly the rank and file… which is one major reason why even moderate voters rejected McCain… that was a lesson he apparently never learned, either.

This needs to be remembered by the next leadership of the party; there is no negotiation with Democrats. None. Both Bush 41 and Bush 43, and to a lesser degree, McCain, have taught us that lesson, one would hope.

Fox News is reporting:

“Jurassic Park” author and “ER” creator Michael Crichton died Tuesday at age 66, according to a statement from his family.

The novelist passed away in Los Angeles after a private battle with cancer. The family said his death was unexpected in a statement available on his Web site.

Apparently, he didn’t let on to many that he had a problem.

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Jonah says:

Quote of the Day, from a reader on Obama’s victory:

It’s kind of like being diagnosed with testicular cancer.  You hope to live through the treatment, but you don’t look forward to what you’re about to lose.

My other title would have been Dewey wins.   This is simple.   Barack Obama would not keep his word as a candidate.  He will not keep his word as President.   As per Geraghty’s Law, all of BO’s statements come with expiration dates, including his promise to cut taxes for some ninety-five percent of Americans.

Obama is not a smart man.  He not an honest man.   Obama’s war on energy, gasoline, electricity, will drive the cost of living through the roof.   You were warned.  Now you will have to pay the price.   Life under the One will miserable.

Addendum:(Bit0:

Jimmy Carter wins re-election

And there it is, freinds.

Here’s the thing about that… Reagan happened because of the unmitigated disaster that is Jimmy Carter.  I guess some lessons need to be relearned every generation. It looks a perfect setup for a repeat. If Republicans actually find a real conservative among them in the next four years, Reagan will happen again. The bad news is we have to wait four years…. and may not survive four years under Democrats.

Reynolds:

We’ve had eight years of Bush Derangement Syndrome. Before that, we had eight years of Clinton Derangement Syndrome. And though people forget it now, President Reagan inspired a lot of anger and hatred, too. Can I ask that, regardless of who wins, we tone things down a bit?

No.

Absolutely not.

Not a chance in hell, Glenn.

No way.

It’s time to attack, relentlessly and continuously for the next four years anything that Obama does. Anything and everything no matter how trivial, because it’s what the Democrats would do.  They have sewn this little garden, and now they’ll reap the rewards. Being so stupid should be painful, and trust me, it will be.

There’s this, too… you know as well as I do that what Obama will do will cause these United States misery. The whole world knows it, which is why all the Iran, Syria, Russia, Argentina and Cuba wanted the man elected.  So as things fall apart… and they will, under Obama… and as buyers’ remorse sets in, and it will, under Obama… and assuming we as a nation survive Obama… which we may not…the Republicans will be picking up momentum by leaps and bounds… but only if Republicans keep up the pressure.

But there’s something else that’s needful. Real Conservatives at the head end of the Republican party.  Republicans lost the White House because of a lack of a real conservative at the head of the ticket.

I called this one, too.  I quoted and responded to Victor Hanson last February 6th,  who at the time was trying to defend McCain from the Republican base…

Again, the anger apparently derives from his gratuitous past snubbing of prominent conservatives (especially the notion that a rude McCain didn’t need them then, but a conciliatory one does now) and can’t be assuaged. At this point, I take the base’s claims they will sit out – or that Hillary or Obama is no worse than McCain-as genuine.

And given their furor expressed so far on the record, it would be almost impossible for them to recant, and they shouldn’t be defamed or coerced to try. No doubt they will lead the charge in a year or two against the liberal Supreme Court nominations of a President Obama or Clinton, or payroll and income tax increases, or a timetable withdrawal from Iraq. Just as McCain is trying to win them back now, they will try to win back then those who are turned off by the venom expressed against the likely Republican candidate. In either case, it will be nearly impossible to do so.

Given that situation, it seems unlikely that McCain will be elected. Someone as smart and experienced as Hanson will see this with a even little self-honesty applied.

Look; the last several cycles have been hair’s width close, close enough that nobody… and I mean nobody… is going to win without the full support of the base. Sorry, it’s just not going to happen.

Andy McCarthy back then was along the same lines:

McCain has not “admitted his mistakes on immigration.” He has not abandoned the goal of legalizing the status of illegal aliens (his biggest mistake since it incentivizes them to wait it out in the U.S. rather than go home and try to immigrate legally); and he refuses to say he would not sign his disastrous comprehensive reform if it crossed his desk as president.Sen. McCain says he won’t raise taxes, but he also says he opposed the Bush tax cuts because they were not matched by spending cuts – a claim that is demonstrably false (he opposed them on class-warfare grounds – because they benefited “the rich”).

Finally, Dr. Hanson’s point about judges may be the least persuasive of all.

Sen. McCain’s two major legal issues over the past decade have been the suppression of political speech (aka campaign finance reform) and the aforementioned extension of Geneva Convention and other legal protections to alien terrorists. Since 2002, these issues have been the subject of several Supreme Court decisions, most notably McConnell and Wisconsin Right to Life on campaign finance and Rasul and Hamdan on rights for enemy combatants. In each of those cases, McCain’s ardent position was the polar opposite of what he refers to as “strict construction” of the law. In each of those cases, McCain’s positions were adopted by Justices Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg and Breyer – the liberal wing of the court (Justice Souter, by the way, is the gift that keeps on giving whose nomination was championed by Warren Rudman -a top McCain adviser previously floated by the senator as a potential Attorney General in a McCain administration.) The conservative justices the senator claims to regard as models roundly rejected McCain’s legal theories.

So, it’s as I said… he was the better choice, but lost because he’d gone out of his way to snub conservatives, and conservatism.

A look at history is helpful, here… and with that let’s be honest, now… Reagan happened because of the walking disaster that was and is Jimmy Carter.  We now have in Obama someone who comes down to Carter’s left… which is something, I must say, I didn’t consider possible in Presidential politics until recently.  There are many Americans… (in this cycle, they call themselves Obama supporters) … who don’t give a crap about politics until such time as it hits them in the wallet. I’m telling you, people, it will, with Obama, even worse than with Carter…and we need a serious conservative out front to capitalize on it as we did in 1980.

It’s as I said the other night in a Ramble… This blog will have much to write about, no matter who wins. And so we will.   I submit there’s a lot of education between here and there…

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Not a great deal going on, being election day. The whole of the news orgs are holding their breath until after this usually gets posted.  Let’s get to what we do have, though.

• Unlike some people, I’m not going to call this one. It’s simply too close to call. We likely won’t know what’s what until tommrow morning.
• To that point, Joyner correctly says:
  

  Somebody, whether Drudge or some other site, will likely leak the election results sometime this afternoon. While they’re impossible to ignore, you should do exactly that.

  He correctly cites a couple sources, and the jist of their comments amounts to Demorats get over polled in those things. I agree. I would point to Ohio ’04, whose exit polling claimed that Kerry was walking away with Ohio. A look at who is in the White House at the moment would seem to argue against that judgement.

  The McCain campaign agrees, given a memo released last night, and reposted, interestingly, by Drudge.:

  McCAIN CAMPAIGN MEMO: READING THE EXIT POLLS
  BILL McINTURFF, INTERNAL POLLSTER
  Mon Nov 03 2008 16:53:14 ET
  As we have seen in previous election cycles, the exit poll results do leak early and that ends up influencing the coverage of the race before even the first state polls close at 6:00 PM Eastern.

  However, we want to remind the campaign that the media’s own post-election study of the exit polls in 2004 showed that the exit polls overstate the Democratic candidate’s support. Therefore, we would discourage a rush to judgment based on the exit polls and wait until there has been a representative sampling of actual tabulated results from a variety of counties and precincts in a state.

  Here are the key points to keep in mind when the exit poll data starts being leaked:

  1. Historically, exit polls have tended to overstate the Democratic vote.

  2. The exit polls are likely to overstate the Obama vote because Obama voters are more likely to participate in the exit poll.

  3. The exit polls have tended to skew most Democratic in years where there is high turnout and high vote interest like in 1992 and 2004.

  4. It is not just the national exit poll that skews Democratic, but each of the state exit polls also suffers from the same Democratic leanings.

  5. The results of the exit polls are also influenced by the demographics of the voters who conduct the exit polls.

  After the 2004 election, the National Election Pool completed a study investigating why the exit polls that year showed John Kerry over performing 5.5 net points better than the actual results showed him to have done. Their conclusion was that the primary reason the exit polls was that Kerry voters and Democrats were more likely to participate in the exit polls.

  “Our investigation of the differences between the exit poll estimates and the actual vote count point to one primary reason: in a number of precincts a higher than average Within Precinct Error most likely due to Kerry voters participating in the exit polls at a higher rate than Bush voters. There has been partisan overstatements in previous elections, more often overstating the Democrat, but occasionally overstating the Republican.

  We believe that this will hold true this year. The recent Fox News survey showed that 46% of Obama voters said they were very likely to participate in the exit polls, while just 35% of McCain supporters are.

  In fact, even the 2004 exit poll report noted that higher turnout nationally and higher levels of voter interest in both 1992 and 2004 correlated with greater Within Precinct Error.

  The overstating of the Democratic vote did not only occur in the national exit polls, but also occurred in the state exit polls. The 2004 exit poll report cited that the Kerry vote was overstated by more than one standard error in 26 states, while the Bush vote was overstated in just four states. So we should also expect the individual state exit polls on Tuesday to be more Democratic as well.

  So given that turnout is expected to be even higher than 2004 and that Democrats are more likely to participate in the exit polls, this means we should expect greater fluctuation and variation in the exit polls from the actual election results.

  The 2004 exit poll report also showed that the greatest error in the exit poll came in precincts where the interviewer was younger. The completion rates were lower and the refusal rates and Within Precinct Error was higher when the interviewers were under the age of 35.[6] Complicating this is that nearly half the interviewers were under the age of 35, including 35% who were 18-24 and another 15% were 25-34.

  Conclusions

  Based on the previous exit poll results, we should expect once again that Tuesday’s exit poll data could overstate the Obama vote and under represent the McCain vote.

  It is important that the campaign make sure the media realizes this, so that when the exit polls do leak, people do not overreact to the early exit poll data. Rather than looking at the exit polls, we should wait until we start seeing actual election results from key precincts and counties to gauge who won the election.

  I copy that in total because if past is anything like prolouge, the link will be gone tommorow.

  My take here is that we’re not going to know the outcome of this until tommrow morning at the soonest. My advice? Sit back and relax.

• Of course, the issue of vote fraud rears it’s head. Down in Philly we see (By way of Glenn) that
  

  “GOP Election Board members have been tossed out of polling stations in at least half a dozen polling stations in Philadelphia because of their party status. A Pennsylvania judge previously ruled that court-appointed poll watchers could be NOT removed from their boards by an on-site election judge, but that is exactly what is happening, according to sources on the ground.”

  Well, gee… Philly. Isn’t this where they had more Democrat votes then registered voters in 2004? I mean, forget the history of Democrats buying votes, there. Fraud running wild in Georgia and Florida, as well. The government says it’s on high alert for vote fraud, we see the way government handles everything else it’s suppsoedly on high alert for, (the economy for one thing) it’s not exactly a case of warm fuzzies I get. If any of this stuff starts sticking, and I suspect it will, it’ll be Saturday by the time this ends.

•  Murtha is toast. Obama’s comment on bankrupting coal users doesn’t help much, given this is a coal area. As I noted yesterday, this is something Obama cannot counter, and I’m amazed they didn’t play this larger. It’s not just PA, but also Ohio, where the Ohio Coal Assn is a little concerned. Miffed even.  Even Greta had something on that last night.(Video)  the fact is where what Obama propsoes has been put into play, Europe, for example the thing has been a failure to beat about any description you can think up, as McQ notes. Be interesting to see how that plays in the votes for those states. It’s recent enough in it’s peaking, that it hasn’t had a chance to show up in the polling.
• Let there be no doubt as to what way the media leans. Hume, last night:
  

  The media have spent twice as much money traveling with the Obama campaign as with John McCain. The Politico newspaper reports Federal Election Commission records from the time they announced their candidacy through the end of September, show the press spent $9.6 million on hitting the trail with the Obama camp versus $4.4 million on McCain’s.The gulf in spending is due in part to Obama’s prolonged battle with Hillary Clinton and his costly trip to the Middle East and Europe, but the Politico says, “The gap shows more media interest in traveling on the Obama Express than the Straight Talk Express.”

  The most one-sided TV network was CBS. It spent $1.2 million traveling with Obama and just $222,000 on McCain. The most balanced was FOX News, which spent $496,000 on Obama and $313,000 on McCain.

  Gee, do you suppose this means anything? (Nod to McQ on the graphic)

Other stuff:

• Is there anyone who even keeps their Album covers, anymore? We started getting out of that habit with tape Cassettes, and now with CD’s mostly the disks are in some other storage medium before second play of the disk. So why on earth am I interested that Britney Spears’ album covers are supposedly ‘sexy’ again?  Seems to me we’re dealing avoiding the issue of the content of the disk itself not being worth a bucket of warm spit.
• Let there be no doubt of Schumer’s being a slimeball.

A new report just released — hours before the polls open on Election Day — exonerates Gov. Sarah Palin in the Troopergate controversy.

The state Personnel Board-sanctioned investigation is the second into whether Palin violated state ethics law in firing her public safety commissioner, and it contradicts the earlier findings by a special counsel hired by the state Legislature.

Gov Sarah Palin

Both investigations found that Palin was within her rights to fire Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan.

But the new report says the Legislature’s investigator was wrong to conclude that Palin abused her power by allowing aides and her husband, Todd, to pressure Monegan and others to dismiss her ex-brother-in-law, Trooper Mike Wooten. Palin was accused of firing Monegan after Wooten stayed on the job.

That from the Anchorage Daily News, this morning.

No shock, this, though to what degree this will help after all the pounding Palin has been taking on this, remains to be seen.

Joyner notes the ruling and says:

What I do know about the case, however, is that Wooten probably deserved to be fired and that, whether it’s legal or even ethical, it’s unseemly for a state governor — let alone the husband of said governor — to use the power of her office to pursue personal grievances.

Personal? I don’t think so. I tell him:

Two points.

1: Can you imagine a Governor who wasn’t related, NOT firing Monegan, given Wooten’s misdeeds? Given the increasing scrutiny that police forces across the country have been getting… and not without justification… (Ask Balko)… what kind of reaction do you suppose that would have gotten?

2: Can you imagine this even being an issue, absent the desperation of the Democrats to create as many issues as possible with the Republican ticket?

I suggest if we’re going to make a moral issue out of this, it’s the Democrats, not Palin, that comes up short.

After two years, we finally get to pull the lever.
I do not propose to get into specifics, here about what I’m going to do. I don’t suppose I will need to.

You see, when I vote today, I’m going to remember which party made possible another vote recently, and which party decided fighting for freedom wasn’t worth it.

I strongly suggest that you should, as well.

The Associated Press:

MADERA, Calif. – Authorities on Monday said they have positively identified two large bones found a half mile from the crash site of Steve Fossett’s plane in California’s Sierra Nevada as the adventurer’s remains.

Rest in Peace, Steve.

From the New York Slimes:

Today, we come together to mark a pivotal moment in our state’s history, a day that in the rhythm of democracy marks a transition and a new beginning.

It is with profound humility about the task that lies before us and filled with great hope for what I know we will achieve, that I stand before you to announce that Day One of our time for change has arrived.

Excerped from ex New York Governor Eliots Spitzer’s inaugural  speech delivered in Albany a mere six hundred eight-three days ago.   One January 2007 was to the “Day Everythings Changes.”   Like Barack Obama, Spitzer promised, over promised, change.  On his inauguration day, Spitzer was extremely popular.   Then Spizter rhetoric and arrogance met reality.   Like Obama, Spitzer promised change and was extremely arrogant.   Unlike Obama, Spitzer was also intelligent.

The Apex of the Obama administration will be  Wednesday, November 5.   Obama will give his first press conference in what weeks and it will start dawning on the American voters, that they were sold a Bill of Goods.   Obama can’t deliver on his promises, much less his expectations.   As soon the One has to start answering questions, it will become increasing obvious.

Bonus round, where will be the undisclosed location the Obama adminstration will keep Joe Biden?

Bleg, can anybody do a morph of Spitzer and Obama?

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Around 24 hours from now we’ll be hip deep in it, though I eexpect we won’t have a good answer to the question of who won thw White House for another week or so. Let’s get to this.

The Politico, who I tossed a proverbial grenade at the other day, has decided to put up the 10 most viral videos of the campaign. Almost makes up for what I was blasting them over. Not quite, but…

• Mickey:
  

  Greg Sargent is shocked by John McCain’s “lying.” Those of us who opposed McCain’s campaigns for illegal immigrant legalization–sorry, “comprehensive reform”–are maybe less shocked. McCain routinely lied during the immigration debate when it suited him–saying the illegals he legalized would “not be in any way rewarded for illegal behavior” (BS), that they’d have to go to the “back of the line behind everybody else” (not the most important line), and that he does “not support nor would I ever support any services provided to someone who came to this country illegally” (BS he does and BS he did). … He got away with this serial dissembling because most reporters thought he was on the right and compassionate side of the issue. And, of course, that he got away with it may help explain why he dissembled in the first place–he knew he wouldn’t be punished by the press if he deceived to get what he wanted. … Now he knows he’ll be punished, but he feels he has no choice (if he’s going to get what he wants). … That’s a distinction, I guess. But not necessarily a moral one.

  I’m unconvinced “lying” is the appropriate term here. Let’s lay the foundation for this… Remember, readers, that Bush was is and always will be a centrist. McCain lost his previous nomination efforts mostly on the basis that he came down to the left of Bush on most things. Seems fair to suggest, then, that McCain’s judgement is like that of a liberal on many things.

  Now, understand, I’ve long held that liberals have a tendency to blind themselves to the truth when a goal hangs in the balance. Like, for example, the goal of increasing the number of minorities in homes. Liberals blinded themselves to the reality of what that would do to the economy when the reality hit that the bankers weren’t being racist when those loans got turned down before, they were simply following good business practices. We see today how that worked out. Liberals today are blinding themselves to the reality fo what Obama represents, too, else he’d not be in the position he is.

  What all this is leading to is that I think McCain allowed himself to be blinded to the truth of the matter, in the case of illegals. To his credit, he did an about face once the facts of the thing overwhelmed the arguments for what he and the left called ‘comprehensive reform’. To call someone a liar suggests they knew on a concious level, that what they were saying is not the case.  there are plenty of negatives on McCain, many of which we’ve listed here. Frankly, Mickey, that said, I think you’re off base with this one.

• Speaking of Kaus, it’s by way of him we turn to Patterico. Says Mickey:
  

  Will Greg Packer Outlast the MSM? Five years after being exposed (by Ann Coulter) as “the entire media’s designated ‘man on the street’ for all articles ever written” and banned by the AP, Greg Packer’s triumph over the MSM is complete: Patterico documents his Friday humiliation of the New York Times. … He will dance on their graves, and maybe give a celebratory quote to Mayhill Fowler. …

  As I said when Coulter first broke this one years ago, one can’t help but wonder… is Packer gaming the system, or is he simply part of the game the press is playing? Either way, doesn’t look good.

• If you use electricity, you need to know thet nearly 70% of our electricity is generated by coal. So, if you use electrictity, you need to hear this.
• Rumors going around that Saddam was stabbed six times after he was hung. Not enough. His yacht is up for sale, though.
• I spoke the other day about Obama’s Aunt. Where’s his Uncle… also an illegal? 
• Shakir Stewart hits the off switch
• We hear Joaquin Phoenix says he’s done with movies. Well, that’s OK. When’s the last one you did, anyway? You’ve got a few in the can, too, as I recall. Sorry, not impressed.
• No kidding, Cindy.
• About bloody time…
  

  DEVELOPING: A military jury has convicted a man who was accused of being an aide of Usama bin Laden and making propaganda videos for Al Qaeda in the second Guantanamo war crimes trial.A jury of officers announced the verdict Monday at the U.S. base in Cuba.

  The jury of military officers voted to convict Ali Hamza al-Bahlul of Yemen, who faced charges of conspiracy, solicitation to commit murder and providing material support to terrorism.

  Apparently the only question is how many life sentances he will get. Personally, I’d like to see this guy get one life sentance, to start the moment he’s tossed out of a plan at 40,000 feet over Mecca. How long he lives depends on how long he can remain airborne. Oh… and televise it. Make sure AlJezeria gets a copy.

• Reynolds make a point:
  

  SO PEOPLE ON THE LEFT AND RIGHT ARE BOTH worried sick about the election. Both seem more worried about the other guys controlling the White House than anxious to win themselves. (Some are very worried). They’re right to be worried, of course, at least to a degree. The Presidency is an office of great power.On the other hand, if the federal government were properly limited to its constitutional powers, there would be much less to fear, and elections would be less stressful for all concerned. Just a thought.

  Just so, Glenn, but I get the feeling I’m going to be reminding you you said this, in the not so distant future.

• I think in the end, GWB will be seen as a good man.
•  This kinda makes you want to take up long distance running, doesn’t it?
• Influenza and Diabetes? Go and read… particularly if you’re a diabetic.
• Boortz asks a number of questions you really ought to ask yourself before voting.
• VDH is a must read today. He says this election makrs the end of Journalism.  While he’s correct that the MSM has exposed itself as totally   in the tank, frankly, this has been a long time in coming.. and Victor, I gotta tell ya I never figured this would go any other way. Did you, really? Apparently, drowning in red ink, while those NOT in the tank rake in the bucks, isn’t enough to set them back on the path of real news-gathering? So be it; Let’s grab the shovel, and get digging, and bury the dead. However that may be, let’s at least bury this idea that the MSM is anything but Leftist shills.
• Me at Q&O :
  

  I will quietly remind the assembled, that in the last polling before the 2004 election, Kerry was ahead by 5 points or so.If you’ll recall, Bush won by 3

  Is this happens two cycles running, how long will it take for the various news agencies to scrape the egg off their faces?

• Another goes under the bus
  Another goes under the bus
  And another one gone
  And another one gone
  Another goes under the bus
• Beck is in  Johannesburg, touring.  Have a safe trip, man.
• Passing thought: Most elections have but one negtive by which the election is decided.  The trouble with Bill Clinton, and now Barack Obama, is that they both present target rich environments, and one cannot stick to one attack in pointing out the negatives. So target rich is Obama, and Clinton before him, that one simply cannot tell the truth abut them, without being seen as ‘going relentlessly negative’.  The truth, you see, is often negative.

CLEVELAND — Among the thousands of graves at Highland Park Cemetery, one modest tombstone stands out.

 

Alex Holmes Sr. has been at rest in that cemetery for 15 years. But recent election records show he cast a ballot in this year’s primary.

 

And our 5 On Your Side investigation found a home on Cleveland’s east side listed as Holmes’ address.

 

Jeremy Moore, Holmes’ grandson, was stunned.

 

“He’s deceased. Deceased since 1993,” Moore said.

 

And it doesn’t appear to be a name mix-up.

 

Records reveal Alex Holmes Jr. — who is still alive — voted in the same election as his deceased father.

 

Cuyahoga County Elections Director Jane Platten said she’ll look in to it.

 

“Without having full detail, I have no idea why that would have happened,” Platten said.

 

But this isn’t the first time we’ve uncovered dead voters. Two years ago, another 5 On Your Side investigation exposed 13,000 dead voters registered in Cuyahoga County. More than two dozen of them cast ballots.

 

That’s from Channel 5 out there.

Tell me again how vote fraud isn’t an issue.