Den Beste also draws two trend lines for each candidate. However he seem to have constructed his trends by just eye-balling the graph. This is not a good technique for constructing trends since it is far too easy to find the trend you were expecting or hoping to see. To get trends that are not effected by subjective bias you need to use statistics.

Precisely how dense is Sully? He thinks the blogad on his site for the smearumentary Stolen Honor “funnels a few Sinclair dollars to the blog.” He also believes he’s running an “ad from Ann Coulter.”

In fact, both ads are from NewsMax.com. NewsMax is giving away the Coulter book to idiot subscribers.

Of course it’s simple. A Rightwing Nutcase simply finds a subject that he has always favoured but is universally repugnant to the civilised world, and makes an argument of “exceptionalism” for it. Shall we conduct a test? Yes? Okay, think of something unsavoury or wicked in a banal way, first. Ahh, yes, there’s the two subjects mentioned above:

So go over there and add your own suggestion. He’ll give you a prize if it’s any good.

It’s more visible in Philadelphia than anywhere else as of tonight, where the Bush campaign staff attempted a last-minute drive to shuffle around polling places in Philadelphia–again, a predominantly black city in a predominantly white state. The Bush team argued that they wanted to relocate 63 polling places because they allegedly lack sufficient handicapped access, and because of “intimidation.” Said Matt Robb, the Republican leader of the 48th ward in South Philadelphia, “It’s predominantly, 100 percent black. I’m just not going in there to get a knife in my back.” Another gem of a Republican said they were trying to change polling places in black neighborhoods because “The black neighborhoods are the ones that do the funny stuff. What are you supposed to do?”