More scare tactics designed to depress the Republican vote?
Gallup polling in October finds little evidence of a surge in young voter turnout beyond what it was in 2004. While young voter registration may be up slightly over 2004, the reported level of interest in the election and intention to vote among those under 30 are [...]

No commentary necessary.

If anything, the Obama campaign (and a future Obama administration) is one of retribution.
The Obama campaign has decided to heave out three newspapers from its plane for the final days of its blitz across battleground states — and all three endorsed Sen. John McCain for president!
The NY POST, WASHINGTON TIMES and DALLAS MORNING NEWS have [...]

A novel way of getting the attention of your students…
FURIOUS parents have called for a saucy teacher to be sacked after she put on a saucy strip show for her 15-year-old pupils.
The German minx was supposed to be supervising a start of term party. But things got out of hand as the pretty teacher put [...]

Sometimes, not even a million dollars can fix the damage a big mouth causes.
Veteran Democratic Rep. John Murtha (Pa.) has sent out a last-minute plea for $1 million to save his hotly contested seat, endangered by his own remarks describing his district as racist.
In an e-mail sent to potential donors, Murtha’s campaign asked his supporters [...]

So apropos on Halloween…
Thousands of dead Floridians are registered to vote and some in Central Florida had ballots cast in their names long after their deaths.
“That is scary,” said Jim Branch.
Branch’s mother Marjorie died in 2004 but someone voted for her in 2006. Branch had tried to get his mother removed from the voter rolls.
“It [...]

Maybe there should’ve been a little pre-game coordination because this probably didn’t come out the way Barack Obama had hoped.
I haven’t cleared this with him and he may even be mad at me for saying this so close to the election, but I know what else he said to his economic advisers (during the crisis). [...]

So Barney Frank now claims It was Republican opposition to regulation that caused the bank meltdown…?

In other words, if you racist Americans don’t elect Barack Obama, you will pay dearly.
A few days ago, Jong, the author and self-described feminist, gave an interview to the Italian daily Corriere della Sera, the choicest bits of which were brought to my attention by the reliably sharp-eyed Christian Rocca, the U.S. correspondent of Il [...]

Did we not expect this? Give our lawmakers lots of money to spend and have it not always go where intended (and in an election year), but go where advantageous to incumbents…?
Today the Emergency Economic Stabilization Plan, signed by President Bush on Oct. 3, involves the government taking direct equity stakes in banks, and at [...]