If your country went through an outrageously corrupt election that was exposed by an “impartial” governing body, you’d think as president you’d have the balls to sack the chief of your electoral commission, especially after agreeing to a run-off election with your main opponent.

State officials, high school students and advocates for new voting laws in Massachusetts urged the state Election Laws Committee to consider a bill that would change the landscape of voter registration for teenagers under the age of 18, yesterday at the State House.
As part of the Massachusetts Freedom to Vote Act, the proposed [...]

As ballots are counted in Afghanistan, reports have surfaced, despite the media blackout, that at least 27 people, including nine civilians, have been killed across the country in a slew of attacks on voting day, according to Global Post.

A few weeks ago it seemed like Afghanistan’s main candidates for president, the incumbent Hamid Karzai and his former foreign minister Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, were locked in a dead heat, running side by side toward that coveted post; to govern a country rocked by economic troubles and war.

So it was back to square one, and now 30 years later, a revolution is brewing again. But this time, more work needs to be done behind the scenes. The people will fight, but religious leaders and Hashemi Rafsanjani need to challenge the legitimacy of this government before it gets out of hand.

In the video, Ahmadinejad compares the rioting to misplaced passion by fans of the losing team after a soccer match. Degrading.

“I personally strongly protest the many obvious violations and I’m warning I will not surrender to this dangerous charade,” said Mousavi, according to Reuters.

You offer hope to a generation who had no place to find it before you came along. Thank you.

A win in Ohio has been projected for Obama by NBC.
This is HUGE.  Obama is the most epic battleground state in the U.S. and win a here, along with his win in Pennsylvania puts Obama very VERY close to the White House.

According to CBS and Fox News, West Virginia and Arkansas are going McCain’s way.  Alabama and Georgia have also been called for McCain by Fox News.
No surprise, McCain headed into tonight with a seven point lead in Arkansas and an 11 point lead in West Virginia.  He also had an over 20 point lead in [...]

Pennsylvania and New Hampshire have been called for Sen. Barack Obama, by NBC News and other media outlets.
Losing Pennsylvania is a huge negative for the McCain camp, he hoped to carry that state.  He has spent a lot of time there recently and his advisors said he’d made a lot of ground.
He really needed it [...]

New England’s lone republican congressman may be in a heap of trouble tonight.
Chris Shays, 63, a veteran Fairfield County Republican is facing down the younger James Himes, 42, a feisty Democrat who may ride the Democratic tidal wave to Washington tonight.
The early buzz coming out of Connecticut is that Shays has the fight of his [...]

Barack Obama will win tonight with at least 53 percent of the popular vote, making him the first Democrat since Jimmy Carter in 1976 to win a majority.
Here are all of the polls released yesterday, the last day that the major polling firms collected data. Obama’s aggragate average is approaching 52%, but I believe these [...]

The time has come! After almost two years of campaigning and gaffe, Americans finally get to choose the next President of the United States.

Just a day before the election, Sen. Barack Obama’s grandmother, a woman whom he says taught him “accountability and self-reliance,” has died of cancer.

Below is an open letter to the national media from Ralph Nader.
Dear Members of the 4th Estate:
Having spoken to numerous reporters and some editors with the national media (as distinguished from the local media) about the blackout or near blackout of the Nader/Gonzalez presidential campaign, striving to challenge the two party, exclusionary duopoly, (debates, ballot [...]

Funnyman Will Ferrell returned to Saturday Night Live during the intro of one of SNL’s special Thursday updates.
We stood beside Tina Fey’s Gov. Sarah Palin, making it the only time the two most highly-rated SNL parodies of all time appeared together. SNL regular Darrell Hammond’s reluctant John McCain later appeared in skit, where Farrell’s GW [...]

A CNN poll shows 47 percent of Americans are afraid Sen. John McCain, if elected, wouldn’t complete his first term as president in good health.

Former Massachusetts Governor, Republican Mitt Romney will suspend his campaign, effectively ending his run for president.
“I must now stand aside, for our party and our country,” Romney said during a speech in Washington Thursday.
The move means Senator John McCain has all but won the nomination.
Romney suffered a string of embarrassing third place defeats in the [...]

WASHINGTON — Senator John McCain, in a tight race, has won the all-or-nothing Republican primary in Florida.

Over the past few weeks, since his victories in both South Carolina and in New Hampshire, McCain has begun to emerge as something of a steamroller. Depending on how he fares on February 5, in what is as close to a national primary as possible, [..]

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