Regisration...4 Days!

We are getting down to the wire on voter registrations. If you look over to the right, you will see a big number 4 there today. You will also see a new link, labeled Verify Your Registration. That's an Oklahoma state website that will return you the state's voting registration records for you. I want everyone reading this blog to click on that and enter the required info to make sure the state has your information correct. I just did it for mine. If you have been purged or have the wrong polling place, you only have 4 days now to get it fixed, so you need to check now. Send this link to all your friends in this state too, so they can check as well.

I've also replaced the calendar at the bottom of the page with a nifty app from Google that will give you localized polling information.

Campaign
Obama's polling lead from last week has been holding steady. Pollster's electoral map has him at 260 EV's now (to 163 for McCain), which is just 10 shy of a win without even factoring in the tossup states. CNN's has it at 250 to 189, and Rasmussen has it at 217 to 174.

As mentioned last week, there are now not enough undecided voters left to swing this McCain's way. To win, he needs to get some "decided" voters to change their minds, which historically they do not do this close to an election. So what does a Republican running against a black man do to change voter's minds at the 11th hour? If you guessed, go negative, you win the Kewpie doll!

Their first gambit is to send Palin around talking about Obama and Terrorists. This is referring to Bill Ayers, who was a radical 40 years ago, but is now working for education reform in Chicago, and has thus bumped into Barack on several occasions. I guess by this logic, McCain is a Democrat too, as he's been in the senate talking to Democrats for the last two decades.

The sad part about this attack is that Palin herself has stronger affiliations with domestic terrorism, in the form of her family's association with the Alaska Independence Party (AIP). Let's see what their founder Joe Vogler had to say about America:

The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government...and I won't be buried under their damn flag...
I'm an Alaskan, not an American. I've got no use for America or her damned institutions.

Sarah's husband Todd was a member of this party until 2002, and only quit when she started running for governor as a Republican. Later, as governor, Sarah addressed their convention and told them (multiple times) to "keep up the good work".

Of course logic isn't the point here. They are just hoping to throw enough mud that something will stick. When this particular lie loses its flavor, they'll just open up their big juicy-fruit pack of lies and pop in a new one. A politician meets so many people that there is really no end to what they can dredge up along these lines.