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ELECTION STUFF
* jons takes a look at uk vs US townhall meetings LINK

* awhile back i scoffed at the Conservatives slogan "are u thinking what we're thinking?" - it turns out that they actually stopped using it.

* wow - galloway beat oona king! update: make sure u see his acceptance speech.

* conyers: "The second point is the continued disregard of the most obvious explanation for these low poll numbers by the mainstream media. They wonder: how can a President, just re-elected, have such low poll numbers and hold positions on the issues that are so unpopular? Is he already a lame duck? Better questions: was he just re-elected legitimately, or was voter suppression and machine malfunction or malfeasance used to manipulate election results? In other words, maybe these polls, rather than our broken election system, better reflect the true will of the people." LINK
ker-fucking-ching

* "What began innocently enough with a watershed article several weeks ago by Tribune Media Service's Robert Koehler on the need for Election Reform and an investigation into the results of Election 2004, has now erupted into a full-fledged firestorm resulting Wednesday afternoon in the unprecedented rejection of Koehler's latest column by the higher-ups at TMS where Koehler is both a columnist and editor!" LINK
go read.