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The Washington Post reports on the “heavy volume of automated political phone calls” that has “infuriated countless voters and triggered sharp complaints.” Conservative groups have “crafted the messages to delude voters — especially those who hang up quickly — into thinking that Democrats placed the calls.”
News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch yesterday called the 2,832 U.S. troop deaths in Iraq “minute” from a historical perspective.
A UN-sponsored audit of Halliburton subsidiary KBR found the company “charged the Iraqi government as much as $25,000 per month for each of as many as 1,800 fuel trucks that were to deliver gasoline to Iraq after the 2003 invasion, but the trucks often spent days or weeks sitting idle on the border.”
At the U.N. treaty conference on climate change, chief U.S. climate negotiator Harlan Watson defended the Bush administration’s stand against compulsory caps on global-warming emissions and said the policy is unlikely to change. Watson claimed the U.S. is doing better at voluntarily restraining the growth of such gases than some countries that are committed to reductions under the Kyoto Protocol.
Missouri’s chief elections official said Monday she was asked three times to show photo ID at the voting booth, despite a court ruling striking down the requirement. When the official tried to explain that ID was not necessary, “the election worker replied that she was instructed to ask for one anyway.”
“Iraq’s Interior Ministry has charged 57 employees, including high-ranking officers, with human rights crimes for their roles in the torture of hundreds of detainees.”
Extra secrecy measures are being taken to plug the leak of exit poll data to “ravenous political bloggers.” This year, media executives figure the secret will keep for less than half an hour. “Based on past experience, I expect that I’ll have exit-poll data soon after it’s released from multiple sources,” Taegan Goddard of Political Wire said. Hotline OnCall’s editors have vowed not to post any exiting-polling data.
And finally: A real newsman joins a fake newsman tonight on The Daily Show. “Dan Rather will be a guest on Comedy Central’s election night special coverage. For the event, ‘The Daily Show’ and ‘The Colbert Report’ will be joining forces at 8 p.m. E.T. for its ‘Midterm Midtacular.’ Rather “will give his analysis in an interview with ‘Daily Show’ host Jon Stewart.”
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