The ITT List
Monday Nov 1, 2004 2:28 pm
Pre-election blog roundup
Thanks to In These Times intern Anna Schneider for compiling highlights from the left and right blogospheres:
Talking Points Memo:
Atrios:
Slate blogs:
Factcheck.org
Run-down of the lies both candidates have told about each other
The Weekly Standard:
Reason
Andrew Sullivan:
Split your ticket when you vote: either candidate will be a better president with a hostile congress.
Human Events Online
and, last but not least...
MSN's Ancestry.com:
We know Kerry and Bush are distant relatives, but who knew the famous Transylvanian Count (better known as Dracula) is also in their bloodline?
Talking Points Memo:
- A group called the Florida Leadership Council sent a flyer around the state with a fake AP story dated 2007 saying that President Kerry warned children and parents of the need to wear their mandatory radiation and chemical gear since terrorists attacked South Florida.
- Kerry is winning among voters in Florida and Iowa who cast early ballots:
- No, wait--the right-wing PoliPundit says Bush is winning in Florida, as well as Iowa, and Ohio and he is predicted to win both popular and electoral votes.
Atrios:
- Proof that Bush is not making the world a safer place: fatality and casualty rates in Iraq have gone up since the U.S. turned over sovereignty of Iraq on June 28, gone up since Hussein's capture.
- A handful of Republican Floridians dressed up Democrats from San Francisco who support anything gay, flying rainbow flags high. The "Democrats" held up signs supporting gay issues trying to sway a crowd of church-going democrats at an early polling place.
- Partisan poll-watchers will not be allowed in Ohio after a recent court decision.
Slate blogs:
- Bush Administration soft on terror: Why didn't Bush kill jihadist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi when it had the chance?
- If the election were held today, Bush would win.
Factcheck.org
Run-down of the lies both candidates have told about each other
The Weekly Standard:
- Be skeptical of the recent reports that casualties in Iraq have gone up, the reports may be inaccurate.
- The economy grew 3.7% in the third quarter and unemployment is currently at a low at 5.4%
Reason
- Cheney predicts the GOP will win Hawaii for the third time in the state's history.
- The percentage of Americans who think it was a mistake to invade Iraq has dropped.
Andrew Sullivan:
Split your ticket when you vote: either candidate will be a better president with a hostile congress.
Human Events Online
- Fake born-again Christians tried to unsuccessfully to infiltrate the RNC posing as a group from Texas who got a message from god to support Bush by volunteering at the Convention. Republicans knew they were fake when their attempts to infiltrate didn't work and they retreated to a nearby bar.
- Kerry's discharge from the navy may not have been honorable.
- Keep illegal aliens out of the polling place and make picture identification at polls mandatory to protect our voting rights.
- Ann Coulter says Kerry and the democrats are no good for black voters.
- The Patriot Act took a terrorist of the streets of New York.
and, last but not least...
MSN's Ancestry.com:
We know Kerry and Bush are distant relatives, but who knew the famous Transylvanian Count (better known as Dracula) is also in their bloodline?

