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Orlando: This Time, It's Personalized, 7:45 a.m. E.T. Just how organized is Barack Obama's vaunted campaign ground operation? Consider this: Last minute door hanger campaign ads placed on homes in Central Florida by Obama operatives are personalized precinct-by-precinct. On the back of the hanger, under detailed instructions on how to vote, in a block titled "Where You Vote," is the name of the building, street address and precinct number of the resident's polling place. Getting voters to the correct precinct is no minor issue. In the close 2000 presidential election, more than a million...
...ballots - the demand has been nearly twice the normal level this year - have had to wait two hours or more in Kansas City and St. Louis. Adding to fears of chaos is the sheer length of the ballot. For instance, in St. Louis County - a key suburban area outside central St. Louis - three sales tax hikes are among the issues on a ballot that will take informed voters 10 minutes to complete, says Republican consultant Paul Zemitzsch. A novice voter might need 20 minutes to digest it. - By Karen Ball / Kansas City...
...surrogates have stumped furiously in Pennsylvania. The main energy has been in Philadelphia and the close-in suburbs, which are almost certain to swing for Obama, but are important mathematically. If Obama wins here by a blowout, it will cancel out any gains by McCain in the west and central area. If McCain can hold Obama's margins here down, however, he has a slight chance of picking up enough votes elsewhere to carry the state...
...must be a weird honor, being the only documentary filmmaker ever to be the central savaging point of a right-wing satire. And by David Zucker, part of the Kentucky Fried Theater team (Jim Abrahams and Zucker's brother Jerry are the other two) who launched the Airplane!, Naked Gun and Hot Shots! franchises and took over and revived the Scary Movie series. Moore probably doesn't feel flattered, since An American Carol depicts its lead character, one Michael Malone, as a bumbling, politically myopic slob who gets swindled into a plot to blow up Madison Square Garden...
...bigger worry is Florida's central voter database. In a state whose residents are as transient as Florida's, concerns about who is eligible and ineligible to vote are always acute - especially since Florida now has a "no match, no vote" law that tightens voter-identification requirements at the polls. The database against which IDs are checked failed miserably in 2000, when thousands of appropriately registered voters, especially African Americans, were turned away at polling sites. (Many were mistakenly pegged as convicted felons, who at that time were ineligible to vote in Florida even after serving their sentences; Crist...