Saturday, October 18, 2008

Ballot Tampering? and the Obama gecko

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’Dawgs: I know you are focused on your newspapers over this long weekend and don’t need any help from me, but I commend to your attention (again), the email feature of Slate.com that provides the top stories in the five leading (can you name them?) newspapers every morning.

Today’s top stories (click here for link) discuss alleged vote tampering by (depending on whom you read) either the GOP or ACORN, the community group that has been working to register new voters—apparently including Batman and Mickey Mouse. That’s the “concern” of the McCain people and the GOP generally; critics on the Democratic side say that by simply complaining about alleged voter fraud, the GOP effectively tampers with registration by would-be Dem voters. Then there is a danger that many of the new voters inspired to register to vote for the first time by the Obama campaign will be thrown out, or that's the fear, anyway.

Meanwhile, the Obama campaign has so much money that some quip that he’s running more TV ads than the Geico gecko.

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