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...Great Schlep—a movement started by the Jewish Council for Education and Research to encourage Jewish grandchildren to visit their grandparents in Florida and convince them to vote for Obama—Silverman asserts that the targeted demographic won’t vote for Obama for a number of reasons. These bubbes and zaides may think “his name sounds scary; it sounds Muslim,” among other superficial issues...
That’s right, this election is not over yet. The polls might be predicting a good night for Democrats, but there have been a steady trickle of discomfiting articles over the last few weeks. There are rumors among African American early voters in Florida that their votes will never be counted, that early voting is but a scam to disenfranchise them. Around the country, new voters are being told that their registrations may not even be processed on time. And then there’s Ohio: The state uses more provisional ballots than any other. If you show...
...genuinely scary thing I’ve heard again and again is how this election could be “stolen again.” “Ohio,” “Florida,” and “registration inconsistencies” keep being whispered. And to paranoid liberals—the kind who hit refresh on the DailyKos homepage every few minutes—even the recent good news for Obama can jinx the election...
Like a man revisiting the scene of a bad car wreck, former Vice President Al Gore came to Palm Beach County, Fla., on Friday. Palm Beach, you may recall, is where butterfly ballots, hanging chads and other election catastrophes helped thwart Gore's efforts to win Florida's electoral votes - and the presidency - in 2000. That bizarre recount drama gave the White House to George W. Bush by just 537 ballots. This time Gore was stumping for Barack Obama, but memories of the 2000 debacle were surely not forgotten, especially since Palm Beach keeps experiencing electoral mishaps. The county...
...That doesn't mean Florida - the nation's largest swing state, with 27 electoral votes - is again headed for a 2000-style disaster. The Sunshine State seems to have instituted enough changes since then, like requiring optical-scan voting machines that provide real paper trails, to make a meltdown of that magnitude unlikely. But that's not to say that Florida in 2008 won't see a presidential vote as close as 2000's. Obama does have an unexpected lead (of an average of about 4 points) over John McCain in the Florida polls. Yet it's narrow enough...