CBS refused to air the pro-secret ballot, anti-card check ad embedded below because, according to a CBS representative, “viewers would be ‘confused’ by its contents within [CBS's] program.”

Now, I won’t argue that a network – even one which uses the public airwaves to send its message – should be forced to air every ad that is offered it. If CBS doesn’t want Americans for Job Security’s money, than it has every right to refuse the organization’s ad.

However, the claim that viewers could possibly “confuse” what is clearly an issue-advocacy advertisement with CBS’s actual “news” content does send a very clear — and interesting — message about how CBS views its own programming, does it not?

“Left-wing billionaire financier George Soros is using his financial muscle at a Manhattan fund-raiser tonight to help Al Franken win a recount in Minnesota’s Senate election,” says today’s New York Post, which continues:

Soros – the hedge-fund honcho and sugar daddy of the Democratic Party – will host a soirée for Franken at his Carnegie Hill digs to help cover the candidate’s costs to monitor the statewide recount.

The special guest: Al Gore, who knows a thing or two about recounts.

Franken sent an email to supporters on November 14 informing them of Don Soros’s approval of his candidacy and asking them to contribute to his election-stealing “fair recount” efforts, which include challenging unmistakably clear votes for Norm Coleman if the voter marked his or her ballot for Democrats in other offices.

Franken currently trails Coleman by 216 votes out of nearly 2.9 million.

A spokesman for Senator Coleman dismissed Don Soros’ ability to control the outcome of the recount, saying, “This race will not be decided by New York billionaires or the US Senate. It will be decided by Minnesotans, and we are confident Sen. Coleman will prevail.”

“We’re screwed,” said Franken in reply. “We think all of the ballots will be counted, and we think we’ll prevail.”

Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Shelby Steele has it right about the supposed “post-racial” character both of today’s electorate and of the Obama election and presidency.

He says:

Everywhere I went on my book tour, young people would come up. “We’re beyond your generation,” they would tell me. “We grew up differently than you did.” No, I tell them, you didn’t. You did not. You are now obsessed with race. Race is the only thing that’s driving your interest in Barack Obama.

You couldn’t even tell me what his policies are. You’re never critical of him in any way. If you were free of race you would not judge him culturally. You would judge him politically.

You just—you are consumed by race.

More here.

*I gave the following speech to the Health Care in a New Administration workshop of Consumers for Health Care Choices at the Heartland Institute on Wednesday, November 12, 2008, in Washington, DC.

In the final paragraph, you can fill in the Effective Conservative Group of Your Choice, be it RedState.com, the Heritage Foundation, or any other of a slew of quality organizations and outlets, and I believe the statement will hold true.
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Everybody here is familiar with the results – such as they are – of last Tuesday’s general election, which saw an increase in Democratic majorities in both the House of Representatives and in the Senate, and which saw the unofficial election (I refer to it as “unofficial” simply because the Electoral College will not meet for another month to make his status as president-elect official) to the Presidency of a man with little record of any kind, and with a history of sympathy toward and advocacy for far-left groups and causes both local and national.

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[Comment From Brent] I wonder if Obama got confused in the voting booth today since “Present” wasn’t listed

Zing!

As exit polling data begins to be released, remember this pithy quote from Sam Feist, political director at CNN: “Exit poll information in the hands of trained professionals is perfectly fine. Exit poll information in the hand of the general public, who may not understand what it means or stands for, can be dangerous.”

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“I won’t have to worry about putting gas in my car, I won’t have to worry about paying my mortgage…”

So what happens when her car runs out of gas and her house is foreclosed on, and Obama doesn’t pick her up on the side of the road or pay her mortgage for her? Will the result just be more anger at the White Man, or could an Obama presidency lead to a backlash of burst-bubble HopeChangers?

Update: This hasn’t been limited to a single polling location, nor apparently a single state. The video below shows the nightstick-wielding man from the FOX news report, and there have been reports of Black Panther wannabes intimidating voters from as far away as Tennessee.

Perhaps this is what Sen. Obama was referring to when he boasted of a civilian homeland defense force during his campaign?

FOX News is reporting that two men dressed in Black Panther attire were blocking the entrance to a Pennsylvania polling location this morning, with one brandishing a nightstick. Poll watchers inside the building had reportedly been told not to let anybody in because “the black man is going to win no matter what.”

A Republican volunteer called the police, who removed the man with the nightstick. When FOX News arrived, the remaining man in Black Panther garb, who is reportedly an authorized poll watcher, accused FNC of intimidating voters, according to reporter Rick Leventhal, “because we were here with a camera and microphone.”

Video below the fold, along with more updates.

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A special Milwaukee, WI police unit that practically wrote the book on vote fraud and how to prevent it has been told not to go near polling locations today, the Wall Street Journal is reporting.

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Click the map below to quickly find out what’s on the ballot in your state, from statewide offices to ballot initiatives. You can also quickly look up what party holds each branch of government in each state.

Courtesy of Stateline.org

Washington state set a new voter registration record this year, and voters have turned out en masse to cast their ballots early.

However, despite the conventional wisdom that new and early voters are Democrats in this virulently anti-Republican year, Republican areas in Washington state are seeing far higher voter turnout than traditionally Democratic strongholds.

Gregoire Needs “Universal Participation”

According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:

With voter participation surging outside the Seattle metropolitan area, Democratic Gov. Chris Gregoire’s re-election campaign faces a turnout deficit in her rematch against 2004 opponent Dino Rossi.

A Seattle P-I analysis of voting returns in Washington shows that increased turnout in Republican-dominated counties gives Rossi an edge and that Gregoire needs to either improve her margins or achieve nearly universal participation in the Democratic stronghold of King County to win.

King County, of course, sealed the 2004 election for Gregoire by providing mind-blowing Democrat turnout — even after the election was over.

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Inspired by the Obama campaign’s decision to kick reporters from three McCain-endorsing newspapers off his campaign plane, cartoonist Will Warren has produced this latest in his ongoing line of editorial cartoon gems:

Former Georgia Senator Max Cleland and a number of his fellow Democrats are clearly still obsessing over the ad run six years ago that dared pointed out Cleland’s refusal, in the immediate aftermath of September 11, 2001, to vote for new homeland security measures proposed by the Bush administration.

Cleland – who appeared to lose his mind after convincing himself that his patriotism had been left in tatters after a single :30 campaign ad – clearly believes that attacks on service and patriotism are just fine if conducted by his side of the aisle (or out of his own quest for revenge), as he used the opportunity of a Friday conference call with the media to accuse Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) of “dodging” service in Vietnam, and of being a “chicken hawk.” According to AP reporter Ben Evans:

Former Sen. Max Cleland of Georgia called Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss a “chicken hawk” Friday and accused him of dodging service in Vietnam while Democratic challenger Jim Martin served a tour in the Army.

Cleland, who lost his seat to Chambliss in 2002, offered no evidence that Chambliss inappropriately avoided service.

Of course he didn’t offer any evidence; after all, when it’s Democrats who are throwing out the slurs and accusations, it’s the seriousness of the charge that matters, whereas when Republicans do it, it’s hate speech, race-baiting, swift-boating, or some other such nonsense.

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