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If the story about the Republicans' cross-country, 11th-hour scheme to confuse voters by phone-harassing them in their opponents' names isn't national headline news by close of business today I don't know what I'll do. I'm hopeful, because it's currently burning up the center-and-left-o-sphere, mere hours after sparking; I am up past bedtime following it. (Tip-off from temvald via firbolg.)

Goddamn liars. The time for subtlety is running out, so now they've turned to jaw-droppingly direct and crude tactics like this. Smooth. But just because it's stupid doesn't mean we can ignore it.

Was the "mistimed" Saddam sentencing actually perfectly-timed chaff to throw up so they could pull shit like this and hope the media'd miss it? Christ. I can't imagine what's next.

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In one of his books Robert Heinlein describes an old-style campaign tactic in which you hire drunks and bums to go door-to-door canvassing for your opponent. I think he also mentioned using wall-paper paste or the equivalent to slap your opponent's posters onto people's windshields. This was back in the late 40's or maybe even earlier.

Some things in politics never change.

Good luck in the elections tomorrow, anyway. The rest of us are really hoping the words Subpoena Power are about to loom very, very large in the American lexicon.