GregNews

WASHINGTON (AP) – Small business owners, the kind Joe the plumber hopes to become, will need an expert from another profession – a good accountant or perhaps someone with a crystal ball – to know whether Barack Obama’s tax plans will help them or send money swirling down with the Drano. Is John McCain right? [...]

Officials: FBI investigates ACORN for voter fraud 24,000 Felons Getting Ballots, Despite Eligibility Questions Seriously, folks, if a Republican-leaning group, say, backed by Rush Limbaugh, were illegally registering felons, or asking people to vote multiple times for John McCain, don’t you think it would get a little more attention? Where’s the outrage? We risk becoming [...]

In the battleground states of North Carolina, Georgia, Ohio, New Mexico and Iowa, it appears that Barack Obama has a large lead in absentee ballots. This is bad news for McCain, historically: [Nate Silver] According to a study by Kate Kenski at the University of Arizona, early voters leaned Republican in both 2000 and 2004; [...]

Such things used to not matter, not phase me, but in this era of skewing the lines between entertainment and news, it does. Late-Night Comics Skewer Republicans 7-to-1, Study Finds If you’re a fan of Jay Leno or David Letterman, you may already know this: You have to listen to seven Republican jokes for every [...]

Here’s another troubling aspect of the Democrat’s perpetual class-warfare strategy for winning elections — it never takes into account that wealth, class and social status are all transitory. That is, we’re all at one time or another struggling or well-off. Few of us are the silver-spoon-born classes that the Democrats vilify, yet their policies end [...]