AP: Kerry Trails Bush in Electoral Votes

We need to fight like hell:

John Kerry narrowly trails President Bush in the battle for the 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House, as he makes his case at the Democratic National Convention this week to topple the Republican incumbent. Tall hurdles remain in his path, including Electoral College math that favors Bush.

With three months remaining in a volatile campaign, Kerry has 14 states and the District of Columbia in his column for 193 electoral votes. Bush has 25 states for 217 votes, according to an Associated Press analysis of state polls as well as interviews with strategists across the country.

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Bigger Breasts for Free: Join the Army

Priorities, priorities. Sufficient armor, bad. Boob jobs, good. Read the rest of this post...

Rumors about HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson...

Thompson is the man in charge of running Bush's billion-dollar pro-marrigae initiative. Sure hope the rumors aren't true, or that would make him a marriage hypocrite, and we all know what that means...

This article is from 1998.

When staid Wisconsin Public Radio opened up its lines for public discussion of Thompson's surprising announcement last week, a large number of callers immediately raised the issues of womanizing and alcohol. This included a former Republican legislative aide.

And this:

As Joel McNally stated on a TV discussion show the day after Tommy Thompson's announcement of a possible presidential run, one of the great failures of the state's media have been their reluctance to look into what those who have covered or operated on the Madison scene have long known to be the case about Tommy's personal conduct.

As a man of his word, McNally took up his own challenge in his column last week. It was not, though, the first time glimmers have surfaced in the media. The call-in show to which McNally alluded, where the first six callers all raised questions about Tommy's alleged womanizing and drinking, may well have been the reason his office immediately pulled back and said he really wasn't considering a run for national office. I once wrote that these allegations of personal misconduct were the real reason Tommy never stood a chance to be named VP nominee in '96. But that was buried in an "items" column like this.

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The Jenna and Barb Chat: Riiiiiiight

Wonkette thinks Bush faked yesterday's online chat with his two daughters. Take a look at the transcript and decide for yourselves. (I particularly like Wonkette's subtle nod to rumors that campaign chair Ken Mehlman and White House Rasputin Karl Rove might be gay.) Read the rest of this post...

F-911 appealing to independent voters

Despite Republican claims that F-911 would only appeal to Democrats, a new poll shows that independents are going to watch it and it is having an impact on them.  According to a new Harris Poll:

More than two-thirds (70 percent) of self-styled independent voters who saw the doucumentary came away with a postive impression of it, compared to 89 percent of Democrats and 44 percent of Republicans.

And more than half of the independents (56 percent) said they thought the movie was fair to President George W. Bush, versus 85 percent of Democrats and 30 percent of Republicans.

London Routemasters to be phased out. Oh no!

London Mayor Ken Livingstone said that the double-decker fleet that is turning 50 will be phased out over the next year or so and replaced with modern "bendy buses."  I've always like the Routemasters, but times change I suppose.  I wish he could do something about the Underground first though.  What an expensive and inefficient mess it is.
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Sudan Arabs play the religion card

It remains to be seen whether fellow Arabs will buy the pitch that "America hates Arabs" but it is nothing more than a smoke screen.  This is a country that wants to eliminate all blacks that are not Muslim.  Sudan is a country that has been has allowed slavery to exist.  If anyone is playing the religion card, it is the government and their hired thugs who are killing and raping in Darfur.  Blair has taken the lead on the issue and has suggested that the UK would send troops to protect the civilians but only with the approval of the African Union.  Now it's time for the AU to jump on this.  I have visited enough countries that are under sanctions to know that international sanctions only hurt the people and have very limited impact on the leaders.  Let's not have another Rwanda or Cambodia.
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Iraq continues to spiral out of control, more abductions

It's no wonder Bush's numbers are showing signs of strain and people want the country to move in a new direction.  An Egyption diplomat was abducted along with other foreign nationals.  Meanwhile the US death toll stands at 903 and we are no closer to "mission accomplished", whatever that was supposed to mean.

With all of the recent abductions, I still wonder why the US has been bringing in so many foreign nationals.  Why are we not hiring local Iraqis for these jobs that are supposed to be for rebuilding Iraq?  I wasn't aware of the unemployment numbers being so low that they can afford to bring in workers from all over the world.  Does anyone have any idea why foreign workers are being brought in?
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Ominous polls for Bush

While this new poll has Bush and Kerry neck and neck, with or without Nader (which is interesting, because before Nader was hurting Kerry, but is he now hurting each candidate equally?), other aspects of the poll are not good news for Bush.

"Fully 54% say the nation is moving in the wrong direction. Nearly half say Bush's economic policies have made the country worse off - almost twice as many as say his agenda has improved conditions.

A slim majority says the war in Iraq was not justified. Perhaps most ominously for Bush, nearly three-fifths say the country should not 'continue in the direction he set out,' and 'needs to move in a new direction.' "

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Right-wing Web site credits 'outing' campaign for killing gay-bashing amendment

Whether or not the outing campaign had any effect on the amendment, a leading writer for the far right thinks it did, and he's ticked about it. And that, my friends, is a good thing:

A proposed constitutional amendment to protect marriage between a man and a woman will probably not receive the two-thirds vote it needs to pass the Senate. Senators John Kerry and John Edwards will vote against it. A supporter of the proposal says, "A two-thirds vote is a difficult margin to achieve in the current Senate on anything even remotely controversial." But if and when it goes down to defeat, the outcome should be attributed at least in part to a vicious and nasty''outing' campaign against closeted gays in the House and Senate, including members and staffers.

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Bush Service Records From '72, Thought Lost, Are Discovered

I have no idea what to make of this article. But it is interesting that the data that was destroyed has now been found. Read the rest of this post...