The only thing that increased my pleasure over the selection of the oily, self-regarding Joe Biden was the selection of Sarah Palin. There could not be a greater contrast.

The Spectator, before the fact, suggested that the selection of Biden would give weight to the Chosen One's candidacy by giving some foreign-policy experience. But also pointed out, rightly, that the VP is not in charge of foreign policy but the president. Perhaps the Democrats were imprinted, as is a gosling, by the two-for-one Presidency of Bill and Hill. They must not wake up screaming, in a cold sweat, at night as I do when I remember.

The most interesting thing to me is that in the middle of the night there are commercials, segued between weight-loss and male enhancement pills, offering a new form of plastic surgery which implants tin-foil hats without leaving a scar.

Now just to get them through the airport scanners...

Yes, McCain leads Obama in this week's Gallup poll by 4 points (although one must consider the disclaimer that it could be plus or minus 3 points.) Before that the USA Today poll had him listed as trailing Obama by 7 points.
We could cheer alternately as our candidates hover around that 50-50 mark, each one ahead by a nose on different weeks.
What really determines the vote is how accurately the electronic voting machines record our votes on Election Day. Will there be another massive vote fraud this time? Will exit polls again be the reverse of what the machine tally shows?
Perhaps instead of this silly bickering over who the voters claim they will vote for, we should be looking into who's counting the votes and whether there will be a paper trail to verify the vote.

Anon 11:38, isn't it a little early to be bringing out the "Count Every Vote" meme? There's almost a full month to get McCain/Palin removed from the ballots.

Getting people removed from ballots is one of Obama's political acomplishmens, heck even our own Republican power broker, Tom Craddick, can't make that political claim to fame.

Yesterday, I read in the comments of another blog somewhere that if the new poll numbers hold that 'they' will have to start falling back on their 'exit poll' strategy.

But, a full two months out?

Wow.

I am astonished at this blaming voting machines in advance. What is this, Diabolus in machina? Absolution in advance? I had not voted for a Democrat before 2000 out of a reasoned consideration of policies but after watching the brazen attempts to steal the election in 2000, I swore that I might not vote Republican but never would I vote Democrat again.

Let's see. If the bodies just aren't there, then, oh, charges of voter fraud.

This is a tantrum.

Around the world, exit polls have been used to verify the results of an election with a high degree of accuracy.
In our 2004 election, exit polls showed a decisive Kerry victory; instead of George Bush winning by 3,000,000 votes, Kerry should have won easily by double that amount.

Either far more Kerry voters agreed to fill out the questionaires after their vote was cast than Bush voters did, or the votes were miscounted.

Apparently Bush voters were not ashamed to admit for whom they had voted; in precincts where Bush got 80 percent or more of the vote, an average of 56 percent of people who were approached volunteered to take part in the poll, while in precincts where Kerry got 80 percent or more of the vote, only 53 percent of the people were willing to be surveyed.
That would prove that Republicans were quite willing to have their say.

Strangely enough, in Republican strongholds, the discrepancy between exit polls and official numbers was very high, Kerry receiving only two thirds of the votes that were predicted by exit polls. In Democratic strongholds, the votes matched exactly what the exit polls predicted.

This information has been all over the news media for years and one would be surprised that Americans have not bothered to read about it, when its implications are enormous for our country's basis of freedom and the vote of the people.

Anyone who understands computers also understands that they can be rigged to provide the data desired.
The only solution is an absolute paper trail on every machine so that recounts can eliminate fraud.

You can call this a tantrum if you wish.
But wouldn't you rest easier at night if you were certain that the will of the people of the United States was actually done?

I'm curious what your take on 9/11 is anon.2.

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