CNN is promoting their coverage of another vote recount.

Seems as if CNN is preparing itself for covering another fiasco of the type seen in 2000. I guess they know something we don't.

I don't believe for one minute that this election will not be stolen.

Notice we're not hearing the name "Diebold" at all? That makes me very nervous.

This is bs and yeah, they're signalling something.

I'm guessing a concerted effort AT THE POLLING STATIONS to challenge individual voters' registrations. In some states, a winning challenge either knocks the voter out or pushes the challenged voter onto a paper provisional ballot.

Each absentee ballot will face huge challenges as well if they are counted, and they are more likely to be counted if there are fewer regular votes tallied because of a winning challenge to voter registrations.

Once all voter registration and absentee ballot challenges are dealt with, then there could be a recount if the tally is sufficiently close.

If you tie up a precinct with a challenge, five people go home.

Imho, they'll zero in on one or two states and the games will follow there. Likely Ohio and another one that has a Republican Sec of State -- like CO or MI. PA or WV are also good candidates.

Ohio has a dem as sec of state now, I believe. There was a general house cleaning there in 2006 after the 2004 debacle.

Michigan is a possibility. The Republicans there include a huge, religious conservative bloc from the western side of the state fueled by money from the founders of Scamway (also known as Amway) to hire all kinds of help.

The question is whether any Republicans will venture into precincts in Detroit and some of the other half-dead industrial cities to challenge registrations. I don't think that the Republicans have anyone but Prince's Blackwater (Prince's sister is married to a scamway heir), and I think that they're tied up elsewhere.

Florida might be a better candidate than Ohio. More Republicans in office and a history of vote suppression.

Florida may not be a good pick this time because the public will rebel immediately.

There has been a lot of vote suppression activity in PA. We'll have to watch carefully over the next two weeks. :(

It's a much better set-up for funny business. In fact the system was set up to facilitate funny business. I don't think that the Pubbies will care if folks are up in arms, perhaps literally, if they think that they can keep Obama out.

I'm not kidding about the fear that suburbanites have of going into inner city areas in Michigan to challenge for McCain. I'm from the state, and I simply can't see it.

Virginia or Pennsylvania which ever has the bigger electoral package.

except by KO. They have a Republican Sec of State who is a snake.

McCain supporters in polling places in Dem areas.

they aren't sure they can control.

And I don't think that they can control Kalamazoo, let alone Detroit.

and once the ballots have been counted.

People here at DU expect a landslide victory for Obama over Mc Lame/caribou barbie. However, my recollection is that in recent elections, the polls start to tighten toward the end.

On Thursday, Drudge (I know, I know) showed a poll, Gallup, I think (I'm beat) that had McLame only down by 2. It's probably an outlier, but still you have to be careful.

It is possible that a couple of traditional battleground states could be extremely tight, and that every vote there will be scrutinized very carefully.

Of course, who knows what will happen with the economy between now and election day, and I think that it will be "the economy stupid" that will tip this election.

I'm hoping, however, that Obama wins in a landslide of both the popular and electoral college votes. This is the most tense election that I remember, and I started following things before '68. In '68, people talked more about the election and there was less "in your face" among ordinary people. This time, people stopped talking back in February or March. Holding things in can result in bad explosions later on. I really do not want to see any spasms of violence from either side here. It's the last thing that the country needs. From my vantage point, however, I can't rule something like that out, and believe me, I wish that I could.