Fear of Clowns

Catching up ...

Bigoted right-wing Republicans, including some in the White House are offended Kerry mentioned that Dick Cheney proudly lesbian daughter is - gasp - a lesbian!. Rush Limbaugh thinks lesbianism is so dirty and icky that it's not "something that you or I would not talk about at a dinner party." Never mind that Mary Cheney is open and proud of her own sexuality.

Republicans seem to have been destroying Democratic voter registrations in Oregon as well as Nevada - part of a larger effort to block the Democratic voteeverywhere.

The FCC is refusing to prevent Sinclair from broadcasting an hour and a half Bush ad and the Kerry campaign has written a letter to Sinclair asking for equal time.

Bill O'Reilly has been hit with a sexual discrimination lawsuit. O'Reilly and his attorney are not denying the charges - which include unwelcome telephone messages O'Reilly left while masturbating and monologues about O'Reilly's sexual fantasies - but rather claiming the charges are being "taken out of context" or "spun for exaggeration."

Dana Milbank offers the observation that the Bush campaign may have made a mistake by trying to turn Kerry into a parody "By turning Kerry into a cartoon, the Bush campaign created such low expectations for the senator that he easily exceeded them in the debates ... viewers saw a Kerry who, if not dazzling and likable, was generally coherent and at times even forceful."

More points have been added to the daily tracking and 10 national polls graphs. Kerry's momentum exhibited in the polls over the last three weeks seems to be waning at an exact tie with Bush, including crucial battleground states of FL and OH.

// posted by Erik @ 10/15/2004 01:12:00 PM
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