Can you hear us now? Count the votes already cast for Hillary in Florida and Michigan. Stop with the misogyny already and nominate the strongest and best candidate to go against McCain.

Today I have heard several radio commentators/hosts remark on how tired Obama is getting, of course, being sympathetic [it’s all her fault it’s gone on so long], but I wonder.

One even mentioned BO saying he’d been in 57 states and then, repeating 57 states again. Now that’s tired! And there is that habit he has of running home to rest even before the ballots are counted in states he lost.  Read more 

Susie thinks that voter disenfrachisment is the most important issue. Chris Friend says that Democrats have given up the high ground. Kirk Wentzel calls for a do over. Daddy Democrat suggests that Obama would win a revote in Michigan. Will Bunch and Booman think it is important that Clinton broke her pledge not to put her name in the MI ballot.

Don’t want to hear it? Too bad. Way to blow the entire election, Dems. Without MI and FL, McStain certainly looks more problematic, no?

The poll also asked what impact the failure to count votes would have on the November elections, and Gelber warned that the results should send a message to national political leaders, and Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Voters said that if the controversy is not resolved and Florida Democratic voters do not have a voice in choosing the Democratic nominee, only 63 percent will still vote with Democrats.

“We need that in the 80s or 90s,” Geller said. Among the other voters: 14 percent said they would send a protest vote and consider voting for a Republican, 12 percent said they were unsure, 6 percent said they wouldn’t vote for the Democrat for president but would for state and local races and 5 percent said they wouldn’t vote at all.

Let me just say that I can understand how they feel.

I guess I’m just old-fashioned. The answer is “no,” both practically and theoretically. No one seems to be talking about a revote here in MI, yet. Do we count (again)? Or is it just FL, where we all know they know how to count votes, and when those counts matter. This whole nightmare is just annoying the hell out of me. But I guess that’s life in a banana republic- what a fun show your elections become! Honestly, part of me is really rebelling at the thought that Serious People are seriously considering, during a race that is too close to call a “revote.” WTF. Is that like “second virginity?” The whole point of a staggered primary is that some races are different. If/when I vote, again, I still won’t get to cast my ballot for my choice. When it could’ve made a difference, I was denied that right.* Now that I don’t care, I get to “choose?” History is laughing at you, DNC. And anyway, the whole idea of a Republican gov doing the Dem party “favors” is just stupid, but I guess our leaders have never read about Trojan Horses or that sort of thing.  Read more 

One of the better roundups on the state of the “first” primaries to date. I’ll exerpt the whole thing, be advised there are live links at the original post.

by: John Deeth
Saturday (09/08) at 07:14 AM

The Iowa Caucuses will be Jan. 14. No, seriously, Jan. 14.
That’s the official word out of Des Moines Saturday as the Iowa Democratic Party’s state central committee met, mostly in closed session, without taking action in response to other states that have moved their contests ahead of the Democratic National Committee’s official calendar.  Read more 

Some stupid bitch in FL. Jesus on a cracker, what the hell is wrong with some people? I’ve got an idea: how about “The Duty Hole Monologues?” Or, “Queefings of a Bearded Taco?”

A theatre in Florida has had to change the title of a charity production of The Vagina Monologues on its marquee, after a woman complained that it was offensive.

The new name? They’ve decided on ’The Hoohaa Monologues’.

Atlantic Theatres in Atlantic Beach, Florida, received a complaint from a woman who’d seen the advertised title as she drove past with her niece. She said that it had made her niece ask her what a vagina was.

The theatre’s Bryce Pfanenstiel commented: ’I’m on the phone and asked “What did you tell her?” She’s like, “I’m offended I had to answer the question.”’  Read more 

Well, you saw this coming. Via MojoBlog, it’s so predictable I’m not even going to comment:

Remember Christine Jennings, the Florida Congressional candidate against whom the Republican Party spent $58 million on robo calls? The people who received such calls about Jennings were misled by the calls' content and thought that they were being warned about her by her own political party. They learned differently only if they listened to the entire call, which most of them did not. But when they hung up, they would be called again. And again. Most people, of course, did not want to listen to the entire call.

In Florida's 13th District, Jennings lost by under 380 votes. In Sarasota County, 18,000 votes did not register on the voting machines, making matters even worse.

Today, it was announced that a Leon County judge has turned down Jennings' request to access the secret software that operates the voting machines in the 13th District of Florida. Just as bad, House Democrats announced they would do nothing to obstruct the seating of the district's new Congressman,  Read more 

Registration table clarification. What I found interesting is that a majority of the election officials making this decision are Democrats. I suppose it’s a “decent” compromise, it’s sure better than the absentee ballot mailing “solution” proposed earlier. Still, I wonder about those laws that require any campaign signs to be so many yards away form the polling place. Oh well, it’s Florida, so I suppose this is the best we can hope for.

By Michael C. Bender
Elections supervisors in Florida’s 16th Congressional District plan to post notices at polling places next month to inform voters of the change in Republican candidates as a result of U.S. Rep. Mark Foley’s resignation.

Supervisors in seven of the district’s eight counties agreed during a conference call to post notices at the registration tables of all polling locations to inform voters that ballots cast for Foley will count for Joe Negron.  Read more 

I only have one question. How do breast implants fit in a Biblical world view?

By Jim Stratton
ORLANDO, Fla. _Rep. Katherine Harris said this week that God did not intend for the United States to be a “nation of secular laws” and that a failure to elect Christians to political office will allow lawmaking bodies to “legislate sin.”

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She then warned voters that if they do not send Christians to office, they risk creating a government that is doomed to fail.

“If you are not electing Christians, tried and true, under public scrutiny and pressure, if you’re not electing Christians, then in essence you are going to legislate sin,” she told interviewers, citing abortion and gay marriage as two examples of that sin.  Read more