McCain campaign has sunk to its lowest

How can it be that a campaign for the top political office of the most powerful nation on earth has to resort to this kind of distraction and deception of their own voting base?

It happened in the last two presidential elections, but it seems people would be more savvy by now. Apparently not.

His whole campaign has become a poster child for everything that is wrong with the Republicans right now.

People are more savvy now Robert that's why McCain is so nervous and has to try and make Obama look like an anti American, its all they have left to campaign on and the neocons that McCain supports and uses to direct his campaign have no message.

As soon as voting started in W. Virginia yesterday they found vote rigging going on, the machines were set to bounce votes for Obama over to McCain. This is standard neocon politics and how Bush won in 2004. This time all states are watching the vote much closer. Every state that uses machines made by Diebold are connected to the company and have a way into the vote count and the owner of Diebold said last election he "would put Bush back in office." My state chose new machines that use a paper ballot so their is a receipt for each vote and we never have to worry much about voter fraud.

In Florida they started voting with a three hour wait so you know someone is tampering with the vote there also. Until we make strict laws with penalties that are to harsh to make voting fraud worth it we will continue to see this kind of politics in our elections.

I do not believe in early voting because the media uses it to try and bring voters over to their favorite candidate.

I think Palin knows they have lost the election and is setting herself up for 2012.

And read Cheri Cabot's latest post to see a great summary of how the Republicons have stolen, and continue to try to steal elections. It has become a party of evil anti-democracy.

David, I would say the McCain campaign highlights what is wrong with America right now...and Obam is showing us the way out of this mess...

Maureen Dowd was very good on this subject in today's op ed. Thanks to everyone who pushes back against this least common denominator attempt to divide us and makes us ugly.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/22/opinion/22dowd.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

Desperation causes evil things.

Nice to see you again Cynthia, your right about McCain and I hope people will really get serious about the harm they can cause by voting strict party lines.

Is desperation a reason to rig elections like it was already tried in W. Virginia as soon as the polls opened yesterday Denise? We need to have better rules for voting and penalties that are so severe that it would not be worth trying to rig a vote.

Yes Jack, and it's not just Diebold machines. Google Prof. Steven Freeman of the University of Pennsylvania for some statistics on the likelihood of GWB having actually "won" the 04 election, computed using historical exit polling data relative to exit poll data from that "election" and the results.

Our own Government Accounting Office has said these machines can easily be rigged without detection. With all the money and interests at stake, how can anybody think that this rigging isn't going on in large scale?

This isn't to say that McCain and Cindy and Sarah and Tod are rigging these machines. But we ought to carefully look at how the election night numbers come in.

Your right Robert and republicans are not concerned about rigging because its always their party that is doing it.

We need national election rules for all federal elections, the states should not be allowed to make individual rules when the election involves the entire nation, as well as big penalties for election fraud that makes it so severe that nobody would see it as useful to rig another election. We also should allow the UN to monitor all our national elections.

May I remind everyone who is so concerned about the vulnerabilities of electronic voting, Tammany Hall loved the old fashion ballot box that could be stuffed with ease by people without any special skills. Any system can be rigged if someone has the will and expertise, but at least a system which requires expertise to rig narrows the list of suspects.

Yes Carol, but ballot boxes can be kept where they can be observed by local election officials who are much more likely to protect the integrity of the election than, say... somebody (who doesn't have to be a computer expert) with a corporate, or financial, or political interest who has a screwdriver in his pocket when he pulls the curtain to the voting booth, and then emerges 60 seconds later having changed vote totals, content with the knowledge that his "vote" made a difference in the election and his crime is undetectable and untraceable.

And still, while he throws up the smoke screen of deception and fear, the Republicans call for more deregulation. Incredible!

Deregulation, lack of oversight, and greed by investors who were playing a game of risk with other people's money -- these are the chief CAUSES of the financial meltdown. A regional bank in our area, National City, today announced 4,000 layoffs. Another local manufacturer lopped 50 people. And this is just the beginning...

And for those who say the federal government should leave everything to the states ... good idea in some cases, but those state governments are feeling the pinch now, too. The only thing that is trickling down is bad debt.