carter the unstoppable sex machine

ELECTION
* " Bush mustered low approval ratings immediately before the election, surged on Election Day, then saw his ratings plunge immediately afterward. Yet Big Media has no curiosity about this anomaly.... “When the autopsy of our democracy is performed, it is my belief that media silence will be given as the primary cause of death.”" LINK
this is a Tribune Media Services article - itll be interesting to see if it gets any distribution - currently news.google only points to the bradblog. ten bux sez we dont see it widely carried... the subtitle is "The 2004 election was stolen — will someone please tell the media?"
Update - i see that CI is linking to this post - here's the news.google search on this article. i was spot-on, theres not a single mainstream media outlet carrying this TMS piece. grrrr.

* Rawstory does a piece on the Baker-Cater Commission on Federal Election Reform and the astro-turf ACVR. (i dont think ive discussed this much - bradblog has been all over it). the problem with having baker involved is obvious at face value. you'd think that having carter involved was probably good news - but the commission has been claiming that the CarterCenter has been involved as well - it turns out that isnt true, Carter left the Carter Center at about the same time that he joined this commission. anyways, the commission is totally stacked with GOP lawyers, and astroturf groups who are trying to give the appearance of being independent which are all stacked with GOP lawyers. and of course, people like conyers and velvet revolution and anyone who might be actually independent or on our side have been specifically excluded. similarly the agenda has been restricted to (basically) 'how do we keep repugs in power'. if they have to cheat, even at this level, then we can presume they arent really serious... (btw - carter got shunned for the papal funeral)
update: velvetrevolution is having an email campaign on this issue. and here is their press release
update: hero john conyers is also covering this

* " If GOP partisans own the voting machines, count the votes, refuse to allow independent validation of the tallies, and if the Republicans choose to take advantage of this opportunity for fraud, is there any way – any way at all – that the Democrats could win the 2006 election and regain control of Congress?... If not, then why do the Democrats persist in looking hopefully to 2006 - “the next time.” After all, 2002 and 2004 were “the next time”..." LINK