disingenuous con.

The word never actually reaches the people in the trenches, much like Trickle Down economics.

The Vienna Metro Station

Having just come in from a neighborhood walk I can report that the McSame/Falin have 3 canvassers working the College Hts area of Fredericksburg right now ... the yard signs and bumper stickers are running 3 to 1 in favor of the R's  

and tell them that McCain has suspended his campaign indefinitely.  

Lying seems to be the theme of McSame's campaign.

I hope whoever witnessed this notifies The Washington Post or other MSM

asking me who I was voting for and whether I would consider changing my vote. I told them that burning sulphur would have to rain down from the sky and a swarm of locusts would have to consume me before I voted for him.

I'm going to make it my new signature. ;)

I heard yesterday that there are requests for absentee ballots going out and they are having the people send them to the wrong place which will invalidate their ballots.  This is happening to Obama supporters.  

My niece has received a form to request an absentee ballot.  It came from the Virginia Democratic Party and she is to send the form to Richmond.  I haven't seen it yet.  She has donated to Obama.  The request that is downloadable on the virginia website says to mail it to your county.  

This sounds illegal as hell.  Does anyone know about this?  Are they going to try to confuse all the new Obama supporters?

She thought it was legit but the democratic party shouldn't be involved in ballots, right?  I'm very concerned.  What should we do?   nancy purks

Just call the DPVA and ask them.  Their number is on their website.

This is a copy of what I was referring to.  She almost sent it off thinking it was legitimate.
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The story is all over Progressive Talk Radio today
about the McCain campaign sending absentee ballot
applications to registered democrats or people that
have donated to Obama's campaign. These ballots are
deliberately misleading and have postage paid return
addresses that are for an election clerk that is
outside of your city or town. What this will end up
doing is either having your vote not counted, or if
you return one of these, they will cite you for
election fraud, saying that you already voted
absentee. These ballots are only being sent out in
'purple states' and this is a big deal. This is called
voter caging, and is a huge problem.

The McCain campaign is stealing this election as we
speak. Please get this information out to as many
people as you can and tell anyone you know who has
received one of these ballots that they need to
contact their city election clerk or the supervisor of
elections immediately. Also call the local media and
let them know what is going on. The main stream media
is never going to cover this so we have to depend on
our ground campaign to get the word out to our voters.

This is completely illegal, and easily traceable.

I haven't gotten ahold of the mailing yet so I can't do anything specific but she says the envelope had an ad for Obama on it.  She is young and fell for it.  The democratic party should not be involved in voting and the Obama ad made her confident that it was real.  Whoever chose her could see that this is the first election she has donated to so they may be the prime targets, new voters, newly involved voters.  I haven't received one because anyone checking can see that I've donated money for years.  Newbies are being targeted and she almost destroyed her vote.  She had a question about it and that is how I found out and stopped her from mailing it.  

Thank you for responding.  I think this is very serious.
 

I now have the mailer and am in touch with Fairfax Dems.  It is an 8x10 fold with Obama on front and suggesting that if someone has a long commute to request an absentee ballot, that commuters can vote absentee.  It says Don't let your commute stand in the way of change.  Vote Absentee, Barack Obama.  It had attached to it a post-paid envelope to Richmond (Democratic Party of Virginia, 1710 E. Franklin St., 2nd Fl, Richmond, VA 23286-1934).  Then there is the absentee application and nothing anywhere about sending it to the county, that page of addresses is missing that you get when you download from the SBE website.

Hopefully the word will get out about this unsolicited mail that could confuse new voters and destroy their chance to vote if they buy into it.  

I spoke with the election board and they said this is perfectly legal and that Richmond will send the request forms to the appropriate counties.  Whew!  I've never seen this before and after receiving that email the day before that this was a caging step I was very concerned.  So if you receive a request form from the Obama campaign to absentee vote, it is real.

I got a robocall yesterday from the Republican Party of Virginia.  A woman's voice heatedly complained about deficits allegedly caused by the Democrats, claiming a rate of increase that was false on its face.  It urged listeners to vote Republican to end deficits and to stop wasteful projects like the Bridge to Nowhere, which they implicitly attributed to Democrats.  

The chutzpah is astounding.  They obviously assume that Virginians are idiots and are counting on Virginians to be ill-informed.  Through their robocall, they are helping to promote that result.  Their call also demonstrates that they continue to use the Big Lie tactic previously used by George Bush and Karl Rove.  

I just found this site today and I love it. It's great to see that not everyone is drinking the republican kool-aid.

Also check out www.speakoutonplain.blogspot.com, a video forum for women discussing the misuse of gender issues in this year's presidential race.

Keep up the good fight.

C'mon people!  Really, just because McCain is suspending his campaigning to return to Washington, do you really think that all other campaign activities suddenly halt?

Get a grip.  If Obama had suspended his campaign and Faux News was running banners like the postings here, we all would be foaming at the mouth with anger.

Let's try to salvage what shreds of reality from this mess that we can.

Either he has suspended the campaign or he's doing something else.  "Suspending the campaign" means stopping the campaign, not just pulling down ads for a day or two and canceling a couples event.  If his official campaign continues its official operations and outreach, then it's not really suspended.  It's just been scaled back.

Ambinder:

 
It's not easy to pull down an entire country's worth of television advertising, so you'll certainly be seeing reports of TV ads still on the air... for at least 24 hours.

Will the campaign shut down its phone banking?

Will volunteers be told not to show up for work?

Will payroll be suspended?

The campaign presumably has polls in the field...will it suspend the field work?

So, McCain needs to explain: what exactly did he suspend?

Suspension denotes that all operations are to cease until further notice. The next step would be withdrawal which only adds a legal end to the campaign. Anything less than absolute cessation of activity would be scaling back the campaign, which every campaign ever does at some point or another in one area or another.

I am sure this will generally further solidify McCain's support from those who would vote for him anyway, especially the laymen. The upper tiers of the Republican Party have got to be cringing though. In general, it's not looking good for them out there.

when I watched McCain's statement on TV this afternoon.  However, I interpeted his "suspension" to mean that he would not be making campaign or fundraising appearances, and suspending the TV ads.  In one respect, this is smart. I "think" it saves money (?perhaps) and no one is going to be paying attention to the "campaigns" -- so money spent on the campaign right now is wasted -- the focus will all be on following what Congress is doing. I did not interpet it to mean that the "footsoldiers" (volunteers) would be idled. I may be incorrect, but that is what I took away from his statement today.

Then he should say "I'm suspending my campaign schedule and advertising."  But he didn't.  He said he was suspending the campaign itself.

I agree that it's not clear, but that's because McCain is not being clear.