How’d your vote go?

that the upcoming election in the US is an important one, today we learned that Yasser Arafat is quite ill; ill enough to seek treatment in France. That coupled with the news of Chief Justice Rehnquist’s surgery and illness underline the critical nature of this election.

at one element of the old – false – “liberal media” saw: RNC pretends newspapers lean left. The Republicans have done a very good job over the past 30 years of marginalizing the opinion pages of major newspapers by calling them “liberal”. “Only problem is,” writes Salon, “it’s not accurate. In fact, the complete opposite is true. Since 1940 when industry trade magazine Editor & Publisher began tracking newspapers during presidential elections, only two Democratic candidates – Lyndon Johnson in 1964 and Bill Clinton in 1992 – have ever won more endorsements than their Republican opponent.”