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Monday Nov 1, 2004 2:28 pm

Pre-election blog roundup

By Jessica Clark
Thanks to In These Times intern Anna Schneider for compiling highlights from the left and right blogospheres:

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:

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?
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