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...networking site Facebook has been a virtual rope line for politicians all election season long. But some candidates are finding that others are putting their faces forward for them--with unwelcome results. The president of a Maryland college Democrats group posted a snarky profile of G.O.P. Governor Bob Ehrlich--now in a tough re-election race--listing Ehrlich's favorite activities as "getting terrible haircuts" and "increasing college tuition by almost 50% in four short years." Though that profile has been taken down, Ehrlich's spokeswoman said she is confident in voters' ability to spot sham profiles. She had better...
...Ohio Congressman Bob Ney asked for leniency in sentencing because he says he has a drinking problem. If you're keeping score at home, that now makes alcohol responsible for corruption, anti-Semitism, and homosexual pedophilia." JON STEWART...
...BOB FASHINGBAUER Chicago...
...there is a place to measure growing Republican desperation over maintaining control in the U.S. Senate, it is surely Tennessee. The state was supposed to be a Republican sweep, but Democrat Harold Ford Jr. is unexpectedly running neck and neck with Republican Bob Corker and stands a fair chance of becoming the first black Southerners have popularly elected to the U.S. Senate. Indeed, Tennessee hasn't seen so much national political attention since President Bush beat Vice President Al Gore in his home state. Bush has come calling twice, helping Corker raise $2.1 million, as have U.S. Senators Lamar Alexander...
...State Republican party Chairman Bob Davis has called the allegations of racism ludicrous, but whether the photos were intentionally darkened does not matter, says Robert Parham, executive director of the Baptist Center for Ethics. "The only plausible reason to use such a picture is to play the race card - in an effort to frighten and fire up white voters in a key senatorial race," Parham wrote in an editorial on the Center's website. "Whether they acted with malice or moral callousness doesn't really matter, the end result is race as a wedge issue...