I hear from family that Bush is in Findlay, Ohio today. Not exactly a battleground part of Ohio. Maybe he needs a good dose of blindly adoring throngs to get him through these last campaign days. It's "hard work," you know, fending off the missiles of reality that keep threatening to penetrate Bush's carefully guarded cognitive air space. He must be needing a faithful flock of conservative white voters to give 'im some love.

Other stuff --

• The BBC has an interesting story on the likely color of Christ's skin - spurred by a recent poll that named him the Top Black Icon.
  
  
• The New Yorker's endorsement of Kerry and repudiation of Bush is quite good and very effective. Too many words, probably, for the Fox News crowd, but I sure wish a few of them would read it.
  
  
• Don't forget the lunar eclipse tonight! If you're in the Bay Area, here's some info. If you're elsewhere, or want more general info about the event, check Stardate and/or Sky and Telescope. That Sky and Telescope feature includes some links to possible live webcasts of the event - which might be necessary for those of us presently enduring murky, wet, nighttime skies.
  
  
• MoveOn.Org provides this link to My Polling Place, to check your polling location. I need to verify the info before I can vouch that it worked for me, because it didn't give me the same location I had last time.
  
  
• Josh Marshall explains very succinctly why the GOP is trying so hard to suppress the minority vote.
  
  
• Like Kos and General Wesley Clark, I don't agree with Bush very often. In fact, the last time I agreed with him was when he assured us his administration never stops looking for ways to harm us. But I'm 100% behind him on this: "... a political candidate who jumps to conclusions without knowing the facts is not a person you want as your Commander in Chief."
  
  
• Dare we hope... Is Delay going down? If his frantic smearing, just today, of the political blog Daily Kos is any indication, his evil flying monkeys are coming home hungry, and he knows it.
  
  
• The LA Times story on potential voter fraud quotes a pretty wild assertion by an Ohio GOP rep:

  David Beckwith, a GOP spokesman in Ohio, said there were a number of "Democratic front groups" holding registration drives in the region and that "the fraud accusations have been worse than in 40 years."
  
  He said multiple Democratic registration forms were signed "in the same hand," Democratic signatures were traded for "cash or crack cocaine," and a woman's husband, dead for 20 years, was registered in the Cleveland area.
  
  "This has been sloppy and haphazard," Beckwith said.

  Any proof of that, reporters? See, Dems have recovered actual stacks of discarded voter registrations and secret emails to back up their allegations.
  
  
• Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman describe 12 ways the Bushies are trying to steal the Ohio election (the last one, though, was recently reversed).
  
  
• A reminder that Bush does not appeal to all evangelical Christians...

  Some, such as Wendy Skroch, a 51-year-old mother of three who prays regularly at the evangelical Elmbrook Church in this heavily Republican Milwaukee suburb, blame Bush for failing to fix a "broken" healthcare system and for "selling off the environment to the highest bidder."
  
  Others are like Joe Urcavich, pastor of the nondenominational evangelical Green Bay Community Church, where more than 2,000 people worship each Sunday. He is undecided, troubled by the bloodshed in the Middle East.
  
  "It's hard for me to say that Christians should be marching against abortion and carrying signs, and then turn around and giving a pep rally for the war in Iraq without even contemplating that hundreds and hundreds of people are being killed on a regular basis over there," Urcavich said.
  
  "I'm very antiabortion, but the reality is the right to life encompasses a much broader field than just abortion," he added. "If I'm a proponent of life, I have to think about the consequences of not providing prescription drugs to seniors or sending young men off to war."
  
  [snip]
  
  Within the evangelical community, the complicated fabric of politics was underscored this month when the board of the National Assn. of Evangelicals unanimously approved a document laying out a new "Evangelical Call to Civic Responsibility."
  
  The document embraces traditional opposition to abortion, gay marriage and embryonic stem cell research. But it also mirrors aspects of the Democratic Party platform, quoting scripture to endorse policies that encourage racial and economic equity and promote a cleaner environment.
  
  "You can't shoehorn the Bible into one political party's ideology," said Richard Cizik, a vice president of the association and an author of the report.

  Obviously, I'm "cherry-picking" paragraphs to make the point, but the whole article is pretty interesting.