Call It A Comeback
Josh over at Progress Illinois captures Illinois Review trying to pass along debunked crap and then claiming it was a joke.
Let me point out why any of this even matters. Eaton isn’t just a crackpot with a website, she’s a crackpot who has a column in a newspaper and is a fairly frequent panelist on blog panels and even WTTW from time to time.
Who else. When you got the crazy, go all in. I’m a bit disturbed at the attention the hoax is getting in Pittsburgh simply because we are talking about a 20 year old girl who is obviously troubled. Hopefully the false report charges will lead to her getting some mental health help. However, the Illinois Review went all in on it:
Read the small print on your McCain/Palin bumper stickers. They should say: “This display could be hazardous to your health.” Today a 20 year old Pittsburgh woman was robbed and maimed because she supports McCain…
And parody is again made useless over at Illinois Review:
Indeed, the Bachman attack is not about Chris Matthews at all. It’s all about this speech Congresswoman Bachman made in Congress earlier this year, exposing Planned Parenthood’s racket. Watch this to the end, where Mrs. Bachman refers to Illinois’ Planned Parenthood chief Steve Trombley.
Prolife Americans need to understand what’s happening this election year. Not only are abortion advocates committed to killing unborn babies, they want taxpayers to fund their abhorrent activities and they are willing to write checks to make examples of lawmakers who dare to challenge their taxpayer-funded evil empires.
With the defeat of Michelle Bachman and the bloody beating IL 11th CD prolife candidate Marty Ozinga is taking at the hands of EMILY’s List-endorsed Debbie Halvorson, it will be more and more difficult to get good prolife candidates to step up to the plate. At the very least, they will remain cautious in expressing their passion to fight for the unborns’ right to life.
It’s just across the board cratering on Republican numbers in Congressional races. The economic crisis is killing them and more than anything the volatility is the real problem.
Daily Kos has new numbers from Research 2000
Kirk (R) 43 (44)
Seals (D) 49 (38)
But the number that is apparently giving Kirk’s campaign the worst indigestion is this:
And here’s a surprise for y’all — in this round of polling, R2K is asking whether people have voted already in states with early voting. Illinois has it, and the 11 percent of the sample that has already voted looks like this: Kirk (R) 35
Seals (D) 57
That is consistent with everything I’m hearing from the ground in the 10th. No one poll should stand alone, but there is clear movement towards Seals in all of the polling including internals if what I’m hearing is correct.
But the question no one has gotten Kirk to answer yet–what is the problem with the Obama agenda?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7SZg-POl10[/youtube]
U.S. Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Chicago, who once headed the DCCC and unofficially shepherds Illinois congressional races, said he, too, was not involved in developing the ad or deciding to run it. But like Mr. Adelstein, he said he likes the spot because it “levels the playing field a little bit.”
Mr. Blagojevich’s office had no comment on the matter, but sources said the governor’s camp has privately expressed its displeasure. Mr. Blagojevich, himself a former congressman, is said to have “gone ballistic” when he first heard of the spot.
Remember when Obama attempted to rationalize his 20-year association with Rev. Wright by exploiting his grandmother and calling her a racist? Well, she’s back!
This time he’s exploiting her hip surgery. Attempting to put a human face on an his otherwise cold and calculating persona, Obama is rushing to her bedside, feinting concern, and subtly implying that she’s on death’s door – from hip surgery!
I guess Obama “feels her pain”. We may soon be feeling his.
The comments are even worse
My grandmother died after breaking her hip in a fall.
At Google, we pride ourselves on helping people find things on the Internet. And every four years in America, Google Trends shows that people are searching to find voting information, like how to register and where to vote.
It’s hard to believe that in 2008, information so important to U.S. citizens and the democratic process isn’t well organized on the web. To solve this problem, we’ve released our US Voter Info site, an effort to simplify and centralize voting locations and registration information.
We developed the site in the hope that it will increase voter participation. We were helped by a number of partners, including many state and local election officials, the League of Women Voters, the Pew Charitable Trusts, and others involved in the Voting Information Project.
Are you registered to vote? What’s the best way to obtain an absentee ballot? When people visit the site, answers to these questions appear. And anyone with a website can provide the same information. The US Voter Info gadget places a simple search box that expands to show a full set of voter information when someone enters an address.
We are also offering a simpler way to find out where to vote. By entering a home address, citizens across the country will be able to find their polling place for election day.
To encourage political participation, we’ve opened up this data to third-party sites and developers through an API developed by Dan Berlin, one of our open-source engineers. We’re excited to share this data, and hope that others will find it useful in encouraging citizens to vote.
Organizing information is our mission. We do that every day with web content, and we want to do the same thing with information to inform and empower voters and to help them get to the polls this election season.
Given the comments I’ve gotten on her McCarthyite outburst, I’ll pass along the numbers when they come out around late news time.
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