Countless newshounds with dry eyes and sweaty palms hammering at their keyboards in a diligent cacophony hoping to be the first to catch the first utterance that spells the end of a political campaign.
ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, FOX, MSNBC, New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Gallup, Time, AP, Reuters, Slate, Drudge, Huffington Post -- all sources, all targets, for rage, shame, fear, laughter, hope, and "news".
We hear about the "horse race" and its associated paraphernalia, be it tire pressure gauges, polling results, haircuts, shoes, racism, feminism, capitalism, communism, terrorism, religion... but none of this stuff really matters unless... (more after the fold)
... we can have fair, transparent, and accountable elections. This cannot be achieved with so called black box voting.
I don't have to tell the readers of DailyKOS about how easy it is to change the results from Diebold(TM) voting machines and how such machines need to have printers attached to them so the machine results can be verified. This is all old news, and not worthy of discussion, thought or action. Please continue about your business.