The Spotlight is on but nobody's looking.

Uh, has Rush been slipping you his Oxycontin again?

Most popular story, as of this post, on CNN.com: New Dems may shake up party

Four of the five U.S. News stories on Google News are about the Election.

NPR.org - top story is about election.

Only on FoxNews.com (of course!) would you not know there had been an election.

 

Another joke?

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Wildkow @ Nov 11 2006, 01:13 AM) [snapback]347368[/snapback]</div>

Not too good, as you can see. We demoncrats have been out of the cockpit for a while and need some help at the controls.

Do you think you could point us in the general direction of the Reflublican guide book on these two important subjects?

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Alnilam @ Nov 11 2006, 11:23 AM) [snapback]347503[/snapback]</div>

Not much of use will be found there. Magnanimity, bi-partisanship, mutual respect, grace, seeking common ground, adherence to fact - all of these are discussed in the "Republican's Guide to Total Domination Overnight" in the chapter titled "Never Let These Quaint Notions Ever Get In Your Way" - the pages of which I suspect are the most semen-stained in the entire pamphlet.

Mark Baird
Alameda CA

 

Bush's approval rating is the lowest yet, 31% according to a Newsweek poll released today. America is finally waking up.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Wildkow @ Nov, 04:28 PM) [snapback]347545[/snapback]</div>

Sure there are. Just not to the same extent.

Off the top of my head:
Orange County CA: Mailers sent out warning that immigrants attempting to vote will be arrested.
Misleading phone calls under investigation by the FBI.
Ann Coulter voting in the wrong precinct.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Wildkow @ Nov 11 2006, 01:28 PM) [snapback]347545[/snapback]</div>

That is because, on account of the touch-screen machines and optical scanners that are used in Virginia, “recounts†consist of re-tabulating the votes from the existing counts to ensure that the end-of-the-day tallies were summed accurately. Essentially, it involves an election official hitting the reprint button and then saying "oh the results are the same that we already printed. All fine here."

New York Times - In Virginia, Webb Is Confident

Allen knew that in past Virginia elections results rarely changed after certification and that there was no way he could have overcome Webb's 7,000 votes margin of victory.

It had nothing to do with magnitude or good sportsmanship.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Wildkow @ Nov 11 2006, 01:45 PM) [snapback]347555[/snapback]</div>

Oh Kow,

You make my milk curdle!

The misspelling was a response to your own in "demoncrat." I was just trying to be bipartisan in our insults. What's good for ewe is good for the ram, wether or not. (An old barnyard joke I'm sure ewer familiar with.)

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(airportkid @ Nov 11 2006, 04:05 PM) [snapback]347536[/snapback]</div>

Thank you!

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Wildkow @ Nov 11 2006, 01:28 PM) [snapback]347545[/snapback]</div>

I find your choice of words crass and unrefined.[/b][/quote]
Touched a nerve, did I? Tsk tsk.

Mark Baird
Alameda CA

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Dragonfly @ Nov 11 2006, 06:20 PM) [snapback]347542[/snapback]</div>

What's your point?

He's a two term President, what, he needs higher approval ratings to he can get that top job at Haliburton or something???? Or does he need an approval rating of at least 45% to qualify for a member discount at the exclusive Yale golf club in Tahiti???

:lol:

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Mystery Squid @ Nov 12 2006, 12:06 AM) [snapback]347689[/snapback]</div>

No, but he needs one if he ever hopes to have a Republican in the White House after next election. *shudder*

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Mystery Squid @ Nov, 12:06 AM) [snapback]347689[/snapback]</div>

What, are you blind? It's a reflection on the party. The House was thumped. The Senate was thumped. The Defense Secretary was booted. And after all that turnover, the President sinks deeper. This isn't about one person or a few people. Its about the whole party. Things have gotten seriously off-track, and they need to get re-routed. Get a clue.

 

Collective America has an attention span equal to that of a 5 year old autistic boy hopped up on sugar.

Trade towers? Not ringing a bell...
Elections? Oh yea, who won?

Christmas spending... I sure hope at least two of those credit card offers I applied for come in the mail in time!!

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Wildkow @ Nov 11 2006, 05:13 AM) [snapback]347368[/snapback]</div>

If the Republicans had been even smarter, they would have fired the bum two days before the election. That may have changed some votes.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TJandGENESIS @ Nov 12 2006, 04:11 AM) [snapback]347746[/snapback]</div>

It would have had to been earlier than that. Plenty of people are now using mail in ballots. That makes last minute attempts at manipulation through the media moot.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Godiva @ Nov 12 2006, 11:20 AM) [snapback]347872[/snapback]</div>

Washington State allows and even encourages permanent absentee balloting. You register as a permanent absentee voter, and without doing anything else, you are mailed an absentee ballot for every election. You can then mail in the ballot, or bring it to a polling place on election day.

I don't actually remember requesting it, but I get my ballot in the mail every election.

BTW, have you heard about the ballot that arrived somewhere (invalid because it was not signed, or something) bearing a very old collector-quality stamp estimated to be worth half a million dollars? Reported today on NPR. The envelope actually had a number of old and valuable stamps, as they were of lower denominations, to make up the needed 86 cents worth of postage.