Once a long shot, John Hall closes N.Y. gap

Thanks to a blend of Democratic momentum, Stephen Colbert, YouTube and his own minor league celebrity, strategists say Hall — a long shot Democratic challenger — could topple Kelly, who has represented New York's 19th Congressional district since being swept into office as part of the 1994 GOP revolution......more

John Hall

Ranks of independent voters rising, Vote Brian Moore

About 17 percent of voters registered for next week’s election eschew major-party identification, according to a study released Thursday by American University’s Center for the Study of the American Electorate......more

Vote Brian Moore

Bill Nelson can kiss my Ass

Hacking Democracy Film airs TONIGHT at 9PM

A Needless Apology

It's "insulting," says Bush, that Kerry would insinuate that our troops are "stupid." Clearly Kerry-- an actual war hero who has actually been shot in a real, live, actual war-- doesn't think troops are stupid......more

Stephanie Miller Outfoxes FOX News

Newsweek: Bush/Kerry Flap could HURT GOP

In fact, the concerted attack on Kerry—complete with White House and Republican National Committee press releases—threatens to undermine a central premise of the party’s strategy. The president may have diverted attention back onto Democrats, but he also turned the focus back on himself and the war.Neither subject is a winning issue for GOP candidates ..Bush’s approval rating in the most recent NEWSWEEK poll stood at 37 percent—10 points lower than the last poll before the 2004 elections, and fully 33 points lower than 2002.......more

GOP Meltdown: Florida lawmaker quits in racial slur scandal

State Rep. Ralph Arza resigned today from the Legislature, bowing to pressure to quit after leaving messages filled with obscenities and a racial slur on a colleague's voice mail.The Hialeah Republican had been urged to resign by House Republicans and Gov. Jeb Bush after the messages left on Rep. Gus Barreiro's voice mail became public......more

Michelle Malkin: John Kerry said what?

A general rule of thumb regarding controversies like this is to count how many posts Michelle Malkin has about the issue, and to note that there is a positive correlation to how trivial the matter is and how many posts she has about it. At my last count, she had four on her site......more

Bush Jokes About Missing WMD in Iraq

" The fact is that we wouldn't be in Iraq if it weren't for Democrats like Senator Kerry"
Howard Dean

Liberal Republican Suburb Turns Furious With G.O.P.

For as long as anyone here can remember, Bellevue has been a stronghold of socially liberal Republicanism. First, it was a prosperous Seattle bedroom community, then a technological boomtown, where employees of Microsoft and Internet start-ups consistently voted for fiscal restraint and hands-off government......more

Darcy Burner

Suger Land Bring Your Pencil's

Bush to implore Republicans to write in the name of a candidate whose name is not easily written: Shelley Sekula-Gibbs, a dermatologist who serves on the Houston city council.....more

Democrats retaking control of Congress would be a victory for terrorists.....G.W.Bush

DU: The Top 10 Conservative Idiots, No. 266
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John Edwards: What's at stake

Rookie Grandma Ready to Talk; Congressman Young a No Show

Congressional challenger and “rookie Grandma” Ms. Samm Simpson faces an empty chair during WEDU's District 10 Candidates' Debate to be broadcast Wednesday at 9 p.m. Her opponent C.W. “Bill” Young declined to participate in the taping over the weekend claiming he and his wife were in Washington to visit wounded vets in the hospitals and for congressional business. Congress has been recessed for two weeks for the elections.....more

Army monitors soldiers' blogs, Web sites

From the front lines of Iraq and Afghanistan to here at home, soldiers blogging about military life are under the watchful eye of some of their own........more

MEET: Stephen Gorham

I am running for Florida Senate District 10. My wife, Rebecca, and I live in Plant City along with our 3 year old daughter, Sky Trinity. As a long time resident and a recent war Veteran honorably discharged from the U.S. Navy, I am very concerned about the many issues and problems we face as residents of Florida........more

Circus McGurkis Peace Picnic

Saturday, October 28, at Dell Holmes Park
This will be a celebration of 35 years of
Circus McGurkis
9 am to 4 pm. Picnic begins at 11.
Bring your own food and beverage......info

Dixie Chick's:They have a hate list and we were number one

Movie premieres this weekend in New York and Los Angeles......more
The Dixie Chicks joined "Hardball" host Chris Matthews......here
Ads for movie about their blacklisting blacklisted......via Tiny

Shut Up And Sing......website

Is Waterboarding torture?

Poll: Middle Class Voters Abandoning GOP

The 2006 election is shaping up to be a repeat of 1994. This time, Democrats are favored to sweep Republicans from power in the House after a dozen years of GOP rule.......more

Researchers Crusade against American Fundamentalists

In the United States, atheists are becoming an ostracized minority. But now evolutionary biologists are trying to turn the tables: According to their argument, religion is the source of evil. Morals and selflessness are not God-given - they are the result of evolution.......more

Why do Bush-Republicans lack courage to lead our troops from Iraq?

2803 troops dead, 655,000 Iraqi’s dead, Over 20,000 wounded troops, $300 million dollars a day, Half a trillion dollars spent on the colossal Iraq disaster, A full scale civil war now being waged with our Troops caught in the deadly crossfire of violence.......more

Australian Muslim Leader
Compares uncovered women to exposed meat

A senior Muslim cleric in Australia has sparked a furore by comparing women who do not wear a headscarf to "uncovered meat", implying that they invited sexual assault.......more

The 10 Worst Congressmen
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The Worst Congress Ever

This Guy Should Be At The Top Of The List

Faith based initiative outreach going bust

Our "prodigal sons" are returning home to the progressive side of the aisle. No judgements. Let us embrace these wayward evangelicals, make sure they intend to vote the progressive way and get them to polls. This is how we win, not by bragging about how right we were.......more

"The Hell with Red/Blue; People Want Out of Iraq and Solutions"
Jim Hightower

The poor GOP I'm actually feeling a twinge of compassion for the Repubs. Poor babies, they're trying to run this year with a Gibraltar of weighty political negatives piled on their backs, including Iraq, Halliburton, Iran, congressional corruption, oil profits, CEO pay, corporate scandals, minimum wage, off-shored jobs, trade scams, rising poverty, Katrina, health care, prescription drugs, Social Security privatization, tax boondoggles, national debt, torture, NSA spying, secret prisons, and "signing statements.".......more

US troops call for Iraq pullout

More than 200 men and women from the United States armed services have joined a protest calling for the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, organisers say. The soldiers said they did not think it was worth their while to be in Iraq and questioned the use of repeated tours of duty. The campaign, called the Appeal for Redress from the War in Iraq, takes advantage of defence department rules allowing active duty troops to express personal opinions to politicians without fear of retaliation.......more

The campaign's website
www.appealforredress.org
Also Check Out
Iraq Veterans Against the War
U.S. generals call for Democratic takeover
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The Worst Political Web sites

The problem in selecting the most ridiculous, poorly crafted, or just plain bizarre political Web sites is an embarrassment of riches: There are so many worthy contenders.......more

How Democrats Might Blow It

As Democrats go through their biennial rite of premature victory celebrations, they are inviting defeat again by obsessing on polls about how many congressional seats are “in play” rather than on explaining to the American people what a Republican victory on Nov. 7 would mean to the nation......more

Mr. Ann Coulter

Who's airing an enemy propaganda film — CNN or the RNC?
CNN aired a video showing part of a sniper attack, but intentionally didn't show anything graphic or violent. The Republican National Committee, meanwhile, paid considerably to broadcast, on national television, video highlighting terrorists' rhetoric and training footage.......more

Meet: Yamel Christina Arronte
Alternative To Norman And Redner In District #5

* LOCAL LADY FOR LOCAL GOV.
* RAISED IN TAMPA
* WIFE AND MOTHER OF TWO
* VETERAN
* PUBLIC SCHOOL EDUCATOR WITH MASTER'S DEGREE
* LATIN FIESTA PRINCESS

Check her out.....here

Desperate GOP Stoops to Lowest Fear Politics Imaginable

The Republican National Committee has released a new campaign ad to rally the GOP base and other voters by showing threatening quotes from al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden followed by the pitch: "These are the stakes. Vote Nov. 7." (Watch the ad here).........more from AlterNet.....here

American Democracy Threatened By Electronic Voting Machines

DAYTONA BEACH PAPER ENDORSES VOTE-RIGGING WHISTLEBLOWER CLINT CURTIS OVER CONGRESSMAN TOM FEENEY!

Clint Curtis, a former Republican who switched parties to challenge U.S. Rep. Tom Feeney, R-Oviedo, offers voters in the 24th congressional district a real — and better — choice.…Feeney is not really talking issues in this campaign, though, choosing to focus largely on denigrating his opponent. It would appear that Feeney assumes that being Republican is enough.…..more

Stay The Course George

More than half-billion dollars in Iraq aid stolen: report

More than half a billion dollars earmarked to fight the insurgency in Iraq has been stolen by people running the country’s Ministry of Defence before the 2005 elections, CBS News reported. Citing Iraqi investigators, the television network said Sunday the United States and Britain are doing little to help recover the money or catch suspects, most of whom have fled the country......more