I'm feeling increasingly grim about the outcome of this election: It's close enough to steal

[cali]

Worker for GOP-hired contractor charged with dumping Va. voter registration forms

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/worker-for-gop-hired-contractor-charged-with-dumping-va-voter-registration-forms/2012/10/19/86062d7a-19f1-11e2-ad4a-e5a958b60a1e_story.html

The perp's name is Colin Small. How many more Colin Smalls are there? What about electronic voting? And the pressuring of employees to vote for rMoney?

Then there's the onslaught of money in swing states that the repubs are unleashing over the next 3 weeks. And the fact that whether we like to acknowledge it or not, mitt does seem to have some momentum. And there's the abridging of voting rights in repub controlled states.

I believe they'll do anything to get the White House.

[Ninga]

1. Checking in with Nate Silver's 538 blog helps. N/ t

[cali]

5. I do that. It does help. but it doesn't vanquish the facts I enumerated in the OP

[chimpymustgo]

7. Nate Silver: Gallup vs. The World

Sure helped me get to sleep last night, after watching Nasty Mitt at the Al Smith dinner.

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The Gallup poll is accounted for in the forecast model, along with all other state and national surveys.

However, its results are deeply inconsistent with the results that other polling firms are showing in the presidential race, and the Gallup poll has a history of performing very poorly when that is the case.

Other national polls show a race that is roughly tied on average, while state polls continue to indicate a narrow advantage of about two points for President Obama in tipping-point states like Ohio. The forecast has Mr. Obama as a narrow favorite in the election largely on the basis of the state polls. (You can read my thoughts here on the challenge of reconciling state and national poll data.)

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http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/18/gallup-vs-the-world/

[laruemtt]

2. me too, cali. i woke up

in a cold sweat this morning thinking they had taken Obama from us and put in rmoney. it was a horrible terrifying feeling and i felt physical fear.

[bigtree]

3. ttt

(this is pathetic, btw.)

[cali]

6. what's not true in the OP?

Do you think that Colin Small is the only one? BTW, Isikoff has now connected him to Strategic Allied Consulting?

Do You think everything with electronic voting is just hunky dory?

Do you think that voter ID laws won't disenfranchise legitimate dem voters?

Do you believe that President Obama is running away with it to such a degree that they can't cheat and win?

You know what pathetic is? The childish stick your fingers in your ears and chant la-la-la that YOU are practicing so assiduously.

[chimpymustgo]

4. I'm very worried too. The Rethugs have efforts underway in EVERY swing state to steal the election.

We have to acknowledge what happened in Ohio in 2004. 2000 was blatant.

They simply couldn't pull it off in 2008 - the numbers were too overwhelming.

We've got to GOTV and poll watch and share information. The Internet will be an important tool for communication. We can do this.