weed, the people

VOTE
* "The constitution provides the challenge process for the eventuality that a given state’s popular vote is determined to have been compromised after that state has certified the vote, and its members of the Electoral College have cast their ballots for a presidential candidate. Such a challenge needs to be in written form, signed by one member of the Senate, and one member of the House. Upon its presentation, the joint vote-counting session would be adjourned, and the Senate and House separately vote, by simple majority, whether to accept the challenge, or let that state’s electoral votes stand as cast." http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6667405/#041215b

* conyers writes the heads of the media companies asking for raw exit poll data

* "If Ohio Secretary of State Blackwell's office is under the impression that the local county election boards are going to back up Blackwell's assertion that everything went well with Ohio's Presidential election, they are mistaken. My conversations with two of them, the two that the secretary's office directed me to call, suggest a long litany of issues that may very well have changed the outcome of the election. Franklin County's Anthony summed it up thusly, 'There are public hearings coming up, people are angry and want to see change. thety want uniform voting and something they can have confidence in. People have no confidence in the system. If people have no confidence in the system, they will not participate in it. The perception is that it doesn't work.'" http://www.elitestv.com/pub/2004/Dec/EEN41c754d14d6d9.html


WART
* "Meanwhile, Iran's Supreme Jurisprudent Ali Khamenei blamed the United States and Israel for the bombings in Karbala and Najaf. This outrageous charge is extremely dangerous and is a form of hate speech. Khamenei said he feared the US was trying to manipulate the forthcoming elections by keeping Iraqi Shiites off balance." http://www.juancole.com/2004/12/mosul-attack-leaves-22-dead-51-wounded.html

* btw - 19 dead in mosul - thats 19 troops, not 19 peeps. (and the '19troops' will inflate anywaze) helliburton apparently 'lost' 7, and there were a bunch of other dead support staff. the good news, if theres any, is that the worse things become, the more likely (maybe) that people are gonna get stirred up about vfraud, and get energised to support the jan6 elecollege challenges. ampub support for the war is falling as well. similalry wrt rummyoutrage. and realisations that more troops will be needed in iraq, more draft whispers... the angrier people get at 34, the more momentum / less resistance to re-inauguration. maybe. hopefully. clutching@straws. with both hands.

AMDOM
* to wit: "Bush will be sworn in to office with the lowest job-approval rating -- barely 50 percent -- of any president in the last 80 years, or since modern-day presidential polling began... Bush's approval rating has fallen five points in the last month, to 48 percent... Not only is Bush's 50 percent approval rating dismal for a two-term president, it's arguably the worst for any president about to be sworn into office... Since Election Day alone, nearly 200 American servicemen and -women have been killed in Iraq" http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/12/21/unpopular/

* similarly, btw - the 'moralvalues' narrative is falling apart at the seams.

* " It's like Charlie Brown and the football." this meme seems to be getting traction everywhere

* speaking of memes and the effectiveness of framing, jessejacksons thing about kathrynblackwell being the coach and referee is a ripper, and keeps getting repeated

* re aipac "Among those Franklin was directed to call as part of an alleged series of sting operations was Francis Brooke, Chalabi’s political adviser in Washington. Brooke said he turned aside Franklin’s request for information on the code-breaking information Chalabi is accused of providing to Iran, telling him “it is all horse dung.”" http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?strwebhead=FBI+waited+to+move+on+AIPAC&intcategoryid=5

* 'i wont negotiate with myself', 'i dont negotiate with terrorists'

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