I don't get this. You allow anti semitic view on open house but my views got taken off. I am left wing, why did my posts get taken off.
I did not make any racist remakrs. Why do you make such odd choices in deleting posts. I don't get it. What is this about?
I pointed out that some people in the establishment might have racist excuse for corruption in that they think white people support mccain, so they will fix the vote for him, thinking they are standing up for their races vote.

This thread has quite clearly been hijacked by James Everitt.

How he could possiby construe the train-wreck of the Republican campaign as reflecting the best for America, is beyond any common sense. McPalin offer nothing new on the Republicanism that has failed in America over the eight years of Bush and the four years prior when instead of providing a constructive opposition they worked to disrupt all government activity and pursued the elected President in a vendetta like fashion.

Now, die-hard Republicans can keep giving the salute, one thinks of the die-hard Nazis giving the Hitler Salute just before shooting themselves ahead of the Russians entering the bunker, but we rest of us know that America is choosing a new start. I do not have to go through Mr Everitt's post line be line refuting it, because I am confident of all the people who will read it, the vast majority will have the common sense enough to recognise it for the unadulterated tosh it is.

The only way now that Mr Everitt will be happy come Nov. 05 will be if a bullet has stopped Obama or if the Republicans have been able to debar Democrat voters from voting. The more independent minded people read the tosh delivered by Mr Everitt, the more they see the Republicans as being on another planet altogether.

Right, that does it:

The Vote Grab: Voter purge could swing result to McCain
By Peter Tatchell

Around 13 million US voters have been purged from the electoral rolls since 2004. That's 10 per cent of the 120 million votes cast in 2004 and twice as many voters as have been added through recent massive voter registration drives.

The proportion of electors dropped from the voters' lists is staggering: 17 per cent in Colorado, 15 per cent in Washington State, 14 per cent in New York, 13 per cent in Nevada and 10 per cent in Missouri.

This means that millions of Americans will not be allowed to vote on 4 November. It could cost Barack Obama the White House, even if he is ahead in the opinion polls on 4 November.

This sensational claim is confirmed by the New York Times (NYT). Its researchers have found that in some states for every new voter registered in the last couple of months, two voters have been removed – negating Obama’s massive voter registration drive. This voter purging could mean fewer people voting in 2008 than voted in 2004.

In Colorado, for example, which has seen a significant population increase since the last presidential election, the state has recorded a net loss of nearly 100,000 voters from its rolls since 2004.

The NYT also reports that Louisiana, Michigan and Colorado are deleting registered voters from the rolls within 90 days of a federal election, which is illegal except when voters die, notify the authorities that they have moved out of state, or have been declared unfit to vote.

Deleting voters who have died or moved inter-state accounts for only some of this purge. The NYT discovered that in Colorado, Louisiana and Michigan the number of people removed from the election rolls since 1 August exceeds the number who may have died or relocated during that period by 300 per cent to 400 per cent. And people who have failed to vote in two or more previous elections are being dumped from the voter rolls, often without being informed. They may decide to vote this time, but when they turn up at the polling booths they will find their names erased and their eligibility voided.

Meanwhile, Indiana, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Alabama and Georgia are improperly using the less reliable Social Security database to verify registration applications for new voters, instead of using the more accurate and up-to-date state and local records. Vote applicants whose Social Security data doesn’t match their electoral registration data are being denied the right to vote.

According to analysis by the NYT:

Under federal law, election officials are supposed to use the Social Security database to check a registration application only as a last resort, if no record of the applicant is found on state databases, like those for driver’s licenses or identification cards.

The requirement exists because using the federal database is less reliable than the state lists, and is more likely to incorrectly flag applications as invalid.

Many state officials seem to be using the Social Security lists first.

In the year ending Sept. 30, election officials in Nevada, for example, used the Social Security database more than 740,000 times to check voter files or registration applications and found more than 715,000 non-matches, federal records show. Election officials in Georgia ran more than 1.9 million checks on voter files or voter registration applications and found more than 260,000 non-matches.

Some states, including the swing states of Iowa and Florida, require a "perfect match." New registrants can lose the right to vote if the information on their voter-registration forms — their Social Security number, street address and precisely spelled name, right down to a hyphen — fails to exactly match data listed in other government records. Typos by government clerks are resulting in voters being scrubbed from the rolls.

In the first few days of early voting in Florida, 5,000 voters have already been rejected, mostly because of typos and bureaucratic blunders in the spelling of their names.

Non-match discrepancies could result in hundreds of thousands of US citizens - perhaps millions - losing their right to vote. Even those who are allowed to remain on the register may be required to vote using a provisional ballot, which may or may not be counted.

Republicans are planning to use non-matches as the basis on which to challenge the voting rights of Democrats, which could affect the outcome of the presidential poll in close-run battleground states.

This evidence of vote suppression is independently corroborated by a BBC Newsnight investigation by reporter Greg Palast. You can watch his eye-popping report here:

Palast says that of the millions of voters who have been purged from the rolls, most seem to be poor and black voters who are more likely to vote Democrat.

During elections in New Mexico earlier this year, one in nine voters found that their names had disappeared from the voter rolls. Whole streets of voters in poor neighbourhoods just disappeared from the rolls.

The 2004 tactic of removing or challenging innocent voters who share the same or similar names is still being pursued by some states, especially in cases where they happen to correspond to the names of convicted criminals.

It has happened before. During the last presidential election, one in four Ohio voters who registered in 2004 turned up at the polling booth only to discover that their names were not on the voter roll – an exclusion rate of 25 per cent.

Palast argues that the next President of the US may not be chosen by counting the votes, but by blocking the voters. His damning report calls into question the credibility of US democracy;

Democrat Party leaders are too high on their "Yes we can" hype to kick up a fuss about this massive disenfranchisement of their voters. They naively assume that their big voter registration drive and Obama’s poll lead will give them victory, regardless of the election bias. But that is what they said about John Kerry in 2004. This combination of arrogance and complacency puts at risk the freedom and fairness of the 4 November ballot. Obama looks set to win, but don't bet on it.

To contact the author or for more information about his human rights campaigns visit www.petertatchell.net

In Venezula the neocons created a fake exit poll to pretend chavez had cheated. So exit polls can be cheated too. I would not be suprised to see the neocons fixing some exit polls with massive differences from the real exit polls result to match up to their fixes in the election.

ACORN is conducting their own purge - registering every being that ever existed and possibly had them vote on register and vote days in Ohio - the real crook here is the Obama base and Obama himself - they will do anything to steal this election.

Yes, it seems evident that the red meanies have 'jacked this ride... where is the rage at this mockery of democracy?

"Can I do all this, and NOT gain a crown? Pppptt! Were it twice removed, I'd pluck it down!" (Richard III)