aha!

you beat me to it, I posted a similar diary without reading yours, I OWE YOU A COKE

I wish I could delete it, I’m gonna go over there and try to edit in a differant subject if I can find one

crikey !

flickr photo too small for snark, here it is, crosses fingers

everyone can use a little schadenfriend cr

Thanks cbl2!

Speaking of provisional ballots, I think it’s going to be really eye-opening when all the absentee, etc. etc. ballots get finally counted as to exactly how many people voted in this election and what percentage of the voters were first-timers.

** Did everyone hear Tweety tell his Republic guest ” the Dems on their worst, most vile day, could never do to Governor Palin what you guys have done in the last 48 hours !”

Hadn’t heard that…..so true. The repubs are the best at trashing people. Wonder how many of the allegations are true.

Morning, everyone.

So has the GOP decided what their excuse for loosing is yet?
Blame Bush, The War, The Economy, failure to save New Orleans (who am I kidding Republicans hate Black People they secretly think that is a plus)
Failure to get Ossama.
Anything but GOP ideas are wrong

I think Mitt is behind trashing Sarah so she can’t run against him in four years.
A Mormon, Corporate Wing of the GOP vs a Small Town Fundamentalist wing of the GOP Civil War may be brewing.
This has so much Snark Potential.

Oil and Drug Cartel Plans
“Global Coup” through IMF

http://www4.dr-rath-foundation…..11_06.html

To quote Han Solo: “It’s not my fault”

John McCain won among older voters. Sooner or later the GOP will realize that National HealthCare will help them keep their most likely voters alive.

Someone should tell the Republicans of the one great universal truth: What goes around comes around.

No one is immune.

Not even Karl Rove.

Look out buddy, here it comes.

Alaska appears to have gone total squirrelly
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/….._1107.html

Denying that you have a problem is alky behavior:) Maybe the GOP nees to join a support group?

Good Morning Me and Firedogs,

wish I had seen this cartoon when I was putting together this post -

Or like Sean Connery (In the Indiana Jones movie) accidentally shooting off the back of his own plane and saying “Son, we’ve been hit”.

At the same time, total voter turnout appears to be about 11% lower in Alaska this year than in 2004

– despite over 20,000 new registrations,

The national polling firm, Rasmussen Reports, accurately predicted every Senate race in the country within the margin of error in their most recent polls — except Alaska.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/….._1107.html

squirrelly

Nope the word you want is

Criminal

Rasmussen Polling was totally anti Obama and even they got Alaska for the Dems?

We won this election thanks to the internet and all the liberal web sites. Pure and simple. The smears were seen as dishonest and thus said more about the smearer than the smearee.
Thanks, FDL.

((((Darcy))))

Except in the case of Darcy Burner. According to Daily Kos: “The Seattle Times spurious attack on Darcy’s character, calling her a liar because she accurately described her Harvard degree, apparently worked.”
However, I am also thinking that something else was at play here – at least in that district, even for people who believed Darcy about the Harvard degree, I will bet that there were people who did not want to vote for ‘a smart woman’. My brain is kicking around a theory about why Rethugs well ballistic for Sarah Palin but consistently attack or do not support women who are ostensibly smart.

That one hurts. And Al Franken. I’m so hoping that he, somehow, wins that race.

That seems like a very interesting theory if you can explain why write a Diary.

The DLC and Rahm are never going to admit that sigh I think only the GOP might admit that.

The last thing Republicans want are smart people in government, much less their own party.

Don’t give up Darcy.

Washington State -

87 Killed in Action
887 Wounded in Action

and the local paper trashes a candidate who drove A Responsible Plan to End the Occupation – what the hell ?

oh wait :

“The proposal also blames the media for failing to provide adequate warnings about the downside of invading Iraq and calls for measures to stymie media consolidation”

more cocktail weenies, my dear ?

Send in the Feds – this is FRAUD

Have you seen “Rove On The Run?”

My favorite video (so far):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_51XsphHi4

What the Justice Department fails to deliver, the citizens are taking into their own hands.

Shannyn Moore also has weighed in on the Alaska anomolies..

http://shannynmoore.wordpress.com/

Schadenfraud?

digg

Hey cbl2, maybe it’s happened before, but this is the first time, I’ve seen you front-paged at FDL. Talent always rises, congrats.

Anchorage Daily News takes a look at election
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/582698.html

Thanks plunger, I hadn’t seen that yet. Definitely woke me up on this sleepy Saturday morning.

Distribute widely and repeatedly.

In Alaska, the last two presidential elections were decided by the exact same margin of victory; 61-36. The only difference was the number of votes; more Alaskans voted for George W Bush-Dick Cheney in 2004 than Sarah Palin-John McCain in 2008. Initially there were only 49,000 votes left to count. Now there are 74,527 outstanding ballots. Curious. Even still-this year’s turnout is still smaller than the election of 2004 by 6.1%. Hhhhhhmmmm. I would have to smoke more than Salmon to believe that Alaska, with Palin on the ballot, decided to sit this one out.

http://shannynmoore.wordpress.com/

Ok they stole the election, badly this kind of obvious cheating embarrasses Cheaters as unprofessional.

I want a recount.

You got it!

It doesn’t look good for the cheaters. I’m in Ohio, where there are enough votes to swipe, but heck in Alaska where everyone knows each other, it shouldn’t take long to figure out.

I’ve been a poll judge in the past. I don’t know why they simply can’t count the number of voters who signed into vote and compare that against the total number of votes cast?

I know, I know, the Republicans will say voters got in the booth and decided not to vote (in the most important election ever..).

God I hate those bastards. There I said it and feel all the better for it!

In case you’ve yet to review my tribute to Rove and his band of co-conspirators:

http://plungerspeaks.blogspot.com

& # 9836;test& # 9836;

a component of the reason is simple people management. The function of Republican candidates is to camouflage
the party controllers. The candidates are not selected for their capacity to think and formulate policy but, rather, their individual ability to memorize and then repeat in dialect and “creative” ways…in modern parlance, mavericky ways. They are selected for their ability to “appear” as individual thinkers. Intelligent people are much less manageable. The downside to this is that the circle of influential people to formulate policy is small, static and close-minded.

Now I go one step further: I think that the American people were able to register their desire for an Obama administration without massive electoral crimes designed to steal the vote because the Republican powers that be saw their President and the Vice President candidates as “unmanageable” and so mavericky that they were both unsuccessful in their function as communicators and unreliable delivering the message. In fact, it was determined not to be “cost effective” to expose electoral fraud tactics during this election. Save them for the 2012. Thus we have the amateurs messing up elections all over the country with the sum result of diminishing a landslide, mis-directing electoral distrust away from true ELECTORAL REFORM.

This is a test

..to see if I can open plungers page in a separate window..

Nope…

….as for electoral reform, my hope is we’ll make it happen before 2012.

.;.moving on to next thread here. Thanks for all the info here.

Above at #40
I hope the Alaska voting “irregularity” is amateur work and we get to the bottom of it. There was really no reason for the Rovians to go out of the way to save Stevens from obvious self-destruction.
The argument that voters did not go to the polls because they felt it was a “done deal” is weak. I talked several people out of deciding not to vote before this election…it wasn’t hard.

Don’t worry about Alaska…apparently 80,000 votes were cast early or absentee. That’s 20% of the total…and the numbers cited about the low numbers only include “cast and counted”. It’s going to be a record election when they finish counting all the Early/Absentee/Questioned Votes.

I think people are misinterpreting the published results on the Alaska SoS website. The site only has published the actual “cast and counted” votes. These are the numbers -erroneously- being contrasted to the 2004 election. Apparently there are yet another 81,000 early/absentee ballots yet to be added to those numbers. This election will, in fact, set a record for turnout in Alaska.

But we can look at the “cast and counted” early votes and I think we’ll easily see why Begich and Berkowitz will ultimately prevail.

I actually toiled through the actual “early vote/absentee” data spread sheets for the different Alaska districts and State Assembly areas.

In the walk-up vote count Begich leads in the following:
District 1 [ Area 2 (58%), 3 (71.5%), 4 (61%), 5 (58%), 35 (53%), 36 (56%)];
District II [ 18 (54%), 19 (52%) 20 (56%), 21 (52%), 22 (59%), 23 (61.5%), 25 (56%), 26 (54%), and tied in 24 and 29];
District III [ Area 8 (57%) and tied in 6,7,9.10]; District IV [37 (52%), 38 (68%), 39 (60.5%) and 40 (61%)].

Historically several of these are traditional red areas -of course Stevens won his previous Senatorial race with 70% of the vote…approaching 100% in some areas. So Begich has made major inroads.

Stevens is ahead in the election day walk-up vote in the following:
District I [Area 1 (56%), 33 (61%) 34 (63%)
District II [17 (58%); 27 (54.5%), 28 (56.3%), 30 (53%), 31 (57.6%), 32 (53%)]
Mat-Su 13-16 averaging 63.5%
District III [11 (63%), 12 (57%);

Some of the early ballots have been counted and this is where the real advantage goes to Begich. Begich is polling between +5% to + 18% better than his walk-up polls, with no counted precinct showing a lower number than his election day numbers.

In District I only two precincts (3,4) had some early/absentee ballots counted and these were 77% (+6% over election day), and 70% (+9% over election day) for Begich. And the “unrecorded” pro-Begich districts out-number the uncounted Stevens areas.

Although he badly lost on election day in this area, Begich’s Mat-Su numbers showed an average of +7% for early voting [41-45% in this heavily Republican district]. So even though he never gains a majority there he cuts into Steven’s substantial leads in the walk-up election day votes. This also suggests that Begich will either win or suppress the absentee/early votes in areas where Stevens won the walkup vote on election day.

District II precincts were about 12% higher for early votes than Begich’s walk-up numbers (with all above 51% and averaging about 63%).

District III: Begich’s early voting numbers (61%) were averaging almost 14% higher than his walk-up vote averages.

In District IV only one set of early voting number was available. Area 4 showed Begich with a 64%-36% advantage over Stevens. That was about 4% higher than his walk-up vote % on election day.

Given the above, if the pattern continues for early voting/absentee Begich should win easily…unless some bias is present in the “problem votes” towards Stevens.

I suspect that the same will be true with the Don Edwards-Berkowitz race as well.