Voting Systems Bug?

Alex Knapp, who has been sceraming about Electronic voting systems all along, apparently sees some vindication on the idea that the systems themselves are problematic.

Voting Machine manufacturer Diebold admitted earlier this week that there is an error in its

• Amazing, how the press isn’t covering the drop in oil prices the way they covered every penny of it’s rise. Despute a bit of bouyancy surrounding Faye ad the possiblity of disruptions from that storm, prices are back on their

These Nightly Rambles are all things I’ve found during the day. I input them all day long and auto-post whatever I’ve collected at around 4 to 430 eastern. I put things in here that catch my eye but that perhaps

Bob Herbert, New York Times, attempts to slime John McCain, only to show his true and bigoted colors:

The racial fantasy factor in this presidential campaign is out of control. It was at work in that New Yorker cover

• Davidremarked the other day on the tax hike on fuel being proposed by the Democrats. I think his headline to be crucial to understanding this thing. Imagine with me, if you will, what would happen to the Democxrats and

• I have to wonder if the mostly manufactured response over Gramm’s comments as I mentioned this morning, isn’t an effort to squelch the noise over Jessie Jackson’s call to castrate Obama.
• Ya know, speaking of Jackson… I had a passing

James Joyner at OTB mentions the current reading at Electoral-vote.com and says:

If the election were held today, Barack Obama would cruise to victory with 317 Electoral Votes to John McCain’s 194, according to projections tabulated by Electoral-Vote.com. Florida,

Ben Castlemen at the WSJ this morning points out that lifting the drilling ban would not be an immididate fix for our situation.

If the bans were lifted tomorrow, it would be at least seven years — and likely as

• You’re quite right, Billy, McCain may end up actually winning this thing, but at what cost to the Republicans, in terms of having to make them more like socialist Democrats? And by that same token, what is the level

• At some point, someone with some brains is going to show up and figure out that all the candlelight vigils ever held don’t mean squat for stuff like this. And for that matter, stuff like this. And stuff like this,

It’s amusing to watch this little trainwreck, and some of the comments on it, such as at TalkLeft:

This is the supposed Michigan compromise.

The state party’s executive committee voted today to ask the national party’s Rules and Bylaws

NEW YORK —(AP via Fox)- A sadistic gang of police impersonators abducted and tortured scores of East Coast cocaine traffickers, forcing them to hand over multimillion-dollar stashes by threatening to squeeze their testicles with pliers, authorities said Tuesday.An indictment unsealed

Paul Duggan and Allison Klein, Washington Post

Deborah Jeane Palfrey, convicted last month of running a high-end prostitution service in Washington, hanged herself today in a shed outside her mother’s mobile home in Florida, officials said.

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The mainstream media makes the case for John McCain, kind of, sort of.  The case against Barack Obama(BO),  Bob Hebert, New York Times:

[T]here can be no denying that an awful lot of Mr. Obama’s troubles have come from

• I was a little more than slightly tounge in cheek when I suggested last night that it would take a week for the primary returns to show up. We’ve seen it take just that long in other cases this cycle,