In the party...

Right now, it's looking like a possible 51-49 Senate in the Dems favor, if the gods of Diebold so allow. If those numbers hold, there will be much pressure on Joe Lieberman to make the switch formally. Quite a few people think that he won't -- that his irascible side will cause him to thumb his nose at both sides. What do you think?

As for those aforementioned Gods of Diebold: Looks like the Gods must be crazy. Check out Brad Friedman today...post after post about equipment malfunction. A Josh Marshall reader saw Bob Novak choose to vote with a paper ballot instead of a voting machine. So did Ken Mehlman. You think they know something...?

Here in California, the voting machines are failing in Orange County -- and failing badly...in Democratic precincts, natch. People asking for paper ballots are being given ballots in Vietnamese.

As dr. elsewhere notes below, the Dems have set up voter hotlines to help combat voter intimidation and suppression, as well as machine glitches. Laura Ingraham has told her listeners to tie up those help lines with crank calls. Dig it: They've stopped denying the vote fraud -- now they are asking the hoi polloi to help 'em commit it.

VIDEO NOTE: Although the quality is horrible, you should check out this clip from Borat. Borat addresses a real life rodeo crowd, which is not in on the joke. The audience applauds wildly when Borat says "May George W. Bush kill every man, woman and child in Iraq!" Red staters are subhuman monsters. These bloodthirsty fiends are unworthy of our union. Can't we get rid of them?