Add Minnesota Secretary of State to the one that already includes Ohio’s to the list of state elected officials committing election crimes. This from Powerline this statement from the Coleman campaign.

“Not content to allow the recount process to move forward as prescribed by law, the Franken Campaign and its supporters are attempting a campaign of undue influence. The increasing questions about unexplained and improbable shifts in vote counts, coupled with Franken Campaign antics over the past 24 hours, compelled us to seek legal action to protect the rights of Minnesota voters. We had an election. Senator Coleman won. And we now must have a legal and transparent process conducted in the light of day – and that is our goal and intent.

“Late last night, after another unexplained shift in votes occurred when the Secretary of State’s Office closed, new ballots have suddenly appeared from a heavily Democratic precinct. These ballots have been unsecure since the election, yet the Franken Campaign is demanding they be stuffed into the ballot box, attempting to change a vote count that was already finished. Minnesota election laws provide specific rules for reviewing and counting ballots. Today’s legal proceeding is an effort to ensure that a transparent and orderly process be in place. The Franken Campaign should be joining us in this action, not seeking to push the process outside the bounds of the law.”

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What those folks whom smeared Sarah Palin to Carl Camerone wouldn’t advance to voters.
Poor John McCain, like so many in the REP Senate. Like the French, they don’t hit back. When given an issue on the silver platter – Dem fault in Freddie and Fannie collapse, he and his campaign refused to make it and issue. AND EVEN WHEN MCCAIN HAD TAKEN THE LEAD ON IT WHEN IT HAPPENED!!!!! But they make sure they give alot of slim to the media about Sarah Palin. Unless McCain corrects this within hours, he’s a loser, too. And it explains losing the White House. McCain and his campaign are more concerned with making nice with the media thatn they were winning for folks whom supported them.

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Its called an Incomplete, if you’ve ever been a student. And it may well be that conservatives believed this about John McCain. From Ace of Spades:

There is no “McCainism” as there was a “Bushism” or “Reaganism.” Those men offered fairly clear visions (well, Reagan particularly so). Not McCain. Everything with him is just his personal gut, principle-free, just an instinct, an impulse, which often takes him in wildly contradictory places (but he’s always haughty about the moral superiority of his decisions).

For example, he’s pro-drilling… but not in ANWR. Um, why? He’s forever undercutting himself with unexplained hedges and caveats.

He’s pro-business… Kinda. Except when he’s making his distaste for anyone working in the private sector “for profit not patriotism” so glaringly evident.

He wants to lower taxes. Sorta. Sometimes. Maybe. In election years.

We must regard Obama as suspect because of his association with the terrorist Bill Ayers… but it’s racist to mention his membership in Jeremiah Wright’s Church of Hate.

This leads to a paralysis among his campaign staff. Everyone knew, pretty much, the Idea of Reagan. They could act independently with confidence that they were advancing Reagan’s goals.

No one could do that with McCain.

Maybe so, indeed. The media would like to tell you that conservative values are dead. But are they? McCain’s inconsitencies on these issues prompt another response. His positions on abortion and the war were winners. But everything else from McCain was a “yeah, but.”

Only from conservative sites will conservative value voters find real poll data. The networks and Dems will tell you otherwise and what you already think for that matter.

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FOX’s Carl Cameron practically slobbered over himself attempting to get out as many petty smears of Sarah Palin he’s picked up from “sources” within the McCain Campaign he’d been fed. Thank goodness some members of the new media are taking them both to task.

First, Michelle Malkin.

At least all the Hollywood and Manhattan Palin-haters were willing to sign their names and put their faces on their attacks.

Let’s assume the rumor-mongers are telling the truth for a moment. Who does it damn more: Sarah Palin or McCain and his vetters who green-lighted her for the vice presidential nomination? Don’t need an Ivy League degree to figure that one out.

Sarah Palin worked her heart out. She energized tens of thousands to come out who would have otherwise stayed home. She touched countless families. I didn’t agree with everything she said on the campaign trail. But two fundamental conservative stands she took mattered greatly to me: She vigorously defended the Second Amendment and the sanctity of life more eloquently in practice than any of the educated conservative aristocracy.

And she did it all with a tirelessness and infectious optimism that defied the shameless, bottomless attempts by elites in both parties to bring her and her family down.

Shame on the smearers who don’t have the balls to show their faces.

Thank you, Sarah Palin. Thank you for stepping up the plate and serving your country.

Snobs exist of the Republican side too as evidenced by the performance of some conservative writers like Peggy Noonan, David Frum and Kathleen Parker. I guess for them, it is only those like them who can and should lead.

More at Red State, Ace,

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It didn’t take long to remind that the man’s words are seperate from his deeds. His naming of political hatchet man Rham Emanuel his WH Chief of Staff is a clear signal he will be about acheiving his leftist agenda.

UPDATE: More here on Emanuel

The best quote: “He’s as cold-blooded as I need him to be to make the decisions.” — House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi on Emanuel, May 27 National Journal.

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With the mandate that voters gave to Senator Barck Obama, American will finally find out about the man. And it will be as Martin Luther King said about the content of his character. It will be simple. Obama has asked us to only pay attention to what he says and to ignore his record and work and associations. He has his work cut out for him.

His said that he was not in favor of reinstituting the Fairness Doctrine. Its a line in the sand for conservatives and if Obama gives in to the leftist leaders in Congress, he will be asked to cross it. It will be an easy marker with which to hold him accountable and understand where this man truly will lead us.

America’s security and commitments abroad will be easily assessed. What of Iraq, Iran, Russia? Will Israel remain an ally as it has been or will an Obama foreign policy throw them under the bus. He’s said otherwise.

And of his tax cuts and luke warm take on the nationalization of health care?

We all will wait and came only hope that he is a man of his word.

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From Mark Hemingway at The Corner.

My favorite part:

Bill Clinton was in the district for a Murtha rally Monday. They don’t think it had much of an impact, Clinton only drew a crowd of 1,400. In contrast, Palin’s rally in the district a few weeks ago drew over 5,000

It won’t be until after the election to assess the strength of the Palin candidacy. It certainly hasn’t hurt although the MSM narrative tried to tell us the sky was green on this one. Could it be that Palin found new GOP voters and is an untold story?

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Thanks to the Anchoress for remembering my own little part of America during the 2000 election. It almost lost the election for Bush as the MSM call for Gore was at least 75 minutes before polls closed in our part of the state.

I still caution that the MSM will attempt to make an early somewhere to supress turnout in central time zone states as they saw it work in 2000. polls are open an hour later in such battleground states as OH, FL, MO, IO, WS, MN

Don’t forget to vote and to get friends to vote. Report any potential wrongdoing.

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No way!

Way.

I’d imagine that here in Florida, the ACORN folks have already mailed in and will attempt to cast provisional ballots tomorrow. Or maybe they did so at one of the early polling locations. Here you have to provide a driver’s licence.

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Mary Katherine Ham has been a busy gal today. Earlier she recieved tribute of greatness when she was named one of the 25 Scariest Conservatives.

An honor to be envious of for sure, but it may not be why the 25 year-old new-media journalist star is most remembered. She might well have told the world why McCain-Palin upset the Obama suggernaut on the election’s eve by going inside the numbers to explain why the GOP ticket takes the big prize states of Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Its Obama’s gaffe on the coal industry. And Ham explains why today in a post at the Weekly Standard:

In order to turn Ohio blue, as Obama wishes to do, he would need to increase urban turn-out, which is probable, while retaining Kerry’s wins in a handful of southern and eastern counties. One of those counties is Belmont County, which went for Kerry 52-46 percent. Another is Athens, which went for Kerry 63-36 percent; Jefferson, 52-47 for Kerry; Mahonig, 62-36 for Kerry; Stark, 50-48 for Kerry. The raw number margins in those counties were not huge, with most of Kerry’s payload coming in Cuyahoga and surrounding counties, but it would seem Obama would need to retain most of those margins to flip the state.

Unfortunately for Obama, Belmont is the highest coal-producing county in the state. Athens, Jefferson, Mahonig and Stark are also home to some of Ohio’s 3,000 mining jobs and an estimated 11 coal industry spin-off jobs that each of the mining jobs represents. Now, wouldn’t voting for Obama be decidedly against these people’s interests?

The same goes for Pennsylvania, where the state’s culture, history, and economy have long been dependent on the coal industry. From the mirrored black luster of Scranton’s anthracite in the east to the dark dust of the west’s bituminous mines, folks will not take kindly to Obama’s blithe talk of bankruptcy. He will undoubtedly increase turn-out in Philadelphia, but will he hold on to coal-region counties Luzerne, Beaver, Fayette, Washington, and Allegheny?

Particularly in the case of Pennsylvania, there are now about five Democrat-issued warnings or insults that could entice blue-collar voters in these formerly blue counties to vote Republican without ever having to resort to race.

Its hard to imagine either candidate being able to defeat the other if their opponent secures the 41 electoral votes of Pennsylvania and Ohio. Ham has gone inside the numbers and broken down the counties to explain why this may well be the case. I’m sure Michael Barone smiled when he read Ham’s work this morning.

Its noteworthy that another respected member of the new media is predicting that the GOP ticket will get bot states. Ed Morrissey, whom Michelle Malkin talked into closing his terrific blog Captain’s Quarters and move to Hot Air, predicted that PA and OH would go to McCain-Palin today.

Me? 278-260 McCain-Palin. No PA, but NH, CO and OH.

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