http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/100...

Crist extends voting hours

This is a very big deal: Florida Governor Charlie Crist, to the shock and dismay of Florida Republicans, just moved to extend early voting hours, a move likely to widen the Democrats' lead under a program on which the Obama campaign has intensely focused.

"He just blew Florida for John McCain," one plugged in Florida Republican just told me.

The Buzz reports:

At a hastily arranged news conference, Crist said the right to vote is sacred and that "many have fought and died for this right." He said he consulted a leading Democratic legislator, Rep. Dan Gelber of Miami Beach, before issuing his order, and that Gelber knew of a similar order issued by Gov. Jeb Bush in 2002 that dealt with helping voters deal with new equipment.

As to the perception that more early voting helps Democrats, Crist said: "This is not a political decision. This is a people decision."

Democrats had urged the extension, which means that votes will be cast 12 hours a day, not eight hours a day.

Mixed reaction my ass! That is brutal


http://www.americablog.com/2008/10/more-vi...

I'm told there's an AP story out that's - surprise! - trying to diminish the amount of booing taking place last night when Sarah Palin threw out the first puck at a hockey game. Well, I've just seen two more videos of the event, fan videos, and the booing is overwhelming. Watch it.

http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/... /

Paraguay President Fernando Lugo, while attending both the United Nations General Assembly meetings and the Clinton Global Initiative, shared with friends over dinner some of the other meetings he had been having in New York.

He met this head of state. . .and that head of state. . .and so on. . .

. . .but then the room went silent and then broke into subdued laughter when he confided that he was approached about meeting with GOP Vice Presidential candidate and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.

President Lugo turned the meeting down.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/1... /

Here’s what McCain has to say about the wonders of market-based health reform:

Opening up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide competition, as we have done over the last decade in banking, would provide more choices of innovative products less burdened by the worst excesses of state-based regulation.

So McCain, who now poses as the scourge of Wall Street, was praising financial deregulation like 10 seconds ago — and promising that if we marketize health care, it will perform as well as the financial industry!

http://www.contingencies.org/septoct08/mcc...


C'mon, Obama! Jump on this!

Inquiring minds want to know how much we got screwed.

Sorry. I'm lousy at titles.

I finished this off just an hour ago. Hope you enjoy!

Fellow DU member Dotcosm came up with this idea and I tinkered with it a little (I changed the hand gestures just a tad ).
Based loosely on an old Doonsbury strip. It was done pretty quick but I hope the message still comes across.


Hope you like it D!

I thought I'd touch on the complete hypocrisy of the situation by the driver (Or at least, I hope it reads that way).

Just as before, anyone that wants to share this is free to.

It's a reply to this earlier thread where Redstone requested a Tiananmen Square theme:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discu...

Anyway, I was hoping to get some feedback on it to see if it needs anything else. If anyone would like to use it, you're more than welcome. Thanks!