SurveyUSA has Sam Graves (R) leading Kay Barnes (D) by a commanding 54-36%. Graves (the incumbent) looks to be cruising to re-election.

In an election for US House of Representatives in Missouri’s 6th Congressional District today, 10/29/08, six days till votes are counted, incumbent Republican Sam Graves defeats Democratic challenger Kay Barnes 54% to 36%, according to a SurveyUSA poll conducted for KCTV-TV in Kansas City. Barnes had pulled to within 3 points of Graves in SurveyUSA polling in August, but at the finish line, momentum is with the Republican, who has doubled his advantage in the past two weeks.

He has the advantage in all age groups and leads Barnes among independents.

There have been reports that internal campaign polling reports a similarly large lead for Graves which has lead to the DCCC scaling back it’s funding in the race.

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The Kansas City Star is reporting that more than a dozen counties in Missouri have more registered voters than they have adults. This is a phenomenon that we have seen across the country as state after state has failed to properly manage it’s voter rolls.

More than a dozen Missouri counties have more registered voters on their rolls than they do voting age adults.

Topping that list is St. Louis County — Missouri’s most heavily populated area.

The excuse that the election authority for St. Louis County gives is telling:

Election authorities in St. Louis County and elsewhere say they are not concerned that their counties still have more registered voters than eligible residents. They say their voter rolls appear high because they include thousands of “inactive voters” — generally people who have moved but under federal law cannot be deleted from the rolls for several years.

Under federal law you can’t purge people who have moved out of your jurisdiction and into another? That surely sounds like a recipe for vote fraud disaster.

Cross-posted at VoteFraudSquad.com and The Minority Report

The health care issue is set to be one of the most important issues in the next four years if the rhetoric coming from both sides is to be believed. (I question whether it really be. Remember Social Security in 2000. We’ve done a great job on that in the last eight years.) Here is a cornucopia of information that you can use to arm yourself for the debate - not just for this election, but beyond.

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The Obama/Biden campaign has been extremely proud of the get out the vote organization that they have created. I haven’t seen any actual numbers, but I’m certain that they have been pushing for new voter registration just like ACORN. So, to no real surprise, they are having the same problems as ACORN:

Rich Chrismer, the St. Charles County elections director, says his office last week turned over to the FBI 15 voter registration cards with nonexistent addresses that had been submitted by the Barack Obama presidential campaign in Missouri.

The article goes on to have an Obama campaign spokesman complain that they weren’t approached about those false registration cards before Chrismer went to the media. Boo freaking hoo. The election director’s responsibilities lie with the public and not your campaign.

As many of you know, I often guest on AOL Political Machine blogger Tommy Christopher’s Blog Talk Radio program Unusable Signal. Tommy has been making a claim for a while now that the rich benefit disproportionately from the government. He has made this claim yet again in a blog entitled “I’m Tommy the Elitist”.Therefore he says that they should pay more in taxes, their “fair share”. Not only does Tommy not cite one piece of evidence, there is mounting evidence to the contrary. That is, the rich are punished disproportionately by government.

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This November 4 there are many other issues on the ballots beside who the next President is going to be. There are countless other politicians up for election (U.S. Senators, U.S. Congressman, Governors, etc.). Many states also have ballot initiatives to consder. Missouri is one of those states. Five ballot initiatives will be on your plate in two weeks. Below is a run down of those initiatives and how I urge you to vote.

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Ask any economist and many of the politicians and those that pay attention on the right what they say is the single biggest problem facing this country. The answer will likely be the unfunded liabilities of the federal government’s entitlement programs of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Serious action needs to be taken now to keep those three programs from swallowing the entirety of the projected revenues of the federal government leaving no room for any of the other vital (and some not so vital) programs.

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Yesterday the right side of the blogosphere was abuzz with the news that a Kansas City couple discovered a charge of $2,300 that was fraudulently made to the Obama campaign.

Steve and Rachel Larman say a strange credit card charge appeared on their statement this month — a $2300 donation to Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. The Larman’s say they don’t want this to be about their political affiliation, but they say they’re not about to give the Obama campaign any help from their pocketbook.

Fortunately for Steve and Rachel, they were vigilant and were able to catch this charge and get their bank to reverse it (after a hastle).

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The online left has continued to throw everything including the kitchen sink at Governor Sarah Palin. They are doing so in hopes of sinking the McCain/Palin ticket and preemptively stopping any potential comeback in the polls. One of the favorites of the left is the rape kit. As I linked to before, it is a favorite of AOL Political Machine blogger Tommy Christopher.

On Wednesday, October 8, 2008, Mr. Christopher put up a piece titled Fact Check: Palin Rape Kit Story True on Political Machine. In that piece he links to a Media Matters piece that attempts to lay claim to the veracity of this story.

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Promoted from blogs. Yet more, and more. - Moe Lane

Over the last few days a there has been a lot of sunlight exposing the dark corners of the activities of the group called ACORN.

• They have been caught forging falsified voter registration cards in Connecticut and Indiana

• There are two indictments of ACORN workers in Wisconsin

• Hiring convicted fellons as registration deputies in Wisconsin and New Mexico

Missouri has not been left out of the action.

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Former Senator Peter Fitzgerald(R-IL) is out campaigning for Senator John McCain. He is the man that Senator Obama replaced in the U.S. Senate. They also served together in the Illinois legislature. From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Political Fix blog:

He noted that Obama’s political mentor is a Chicago powerbroker, state Senate President Emil Jones. He suggested that Obama’s sponsorship of ethics legislation while in the Illinois assembly took no effort because he was assigned to carry the bill by Jones.

“Obama carried the ethics bill because Jones gave it to him… I did not see it as really a courageous move. everybody was going to vote for that bill.

“I never recall him speaking out on corruption.

“The corruption is so notorious (in Chicago). All the people in Mayor Daley’s administration… They’ve been carted off to the federal penitentiary by the busload.

“(Obama) rode the Chicago machine to where he is today.”

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But FItzgerald remained on the attack, saying Obama possesses “an unusual gift in being ingenious in his lack of specificity and letting people seem him how every they want to. He’s like a human Rorschach test … They see him as being on their side when he’s really not.”

“He was just one of those state senators from chicago[sic] who viewed the Democratic Party as being right 100 percent of the time and the Republican Party as wrong 100 percent of the time.”

Those few words are tailor made for a :30 spot. Anyone that can make this happen in the McCain campaign should do so immediately.

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Republican candidate Kenny Hulshof has been badly trailing Democrat candidate Jay Nixon for the entire campaign season. Nixon started the season with a considerable advantage following a bitterly contested Republican primary between Hulshof and State Treasurer Sarah Steelman. Since the repeal of Missouri’s campaign finance law restricting contributions, Nixon has continued his fund raising advantage. He has collected $3.3 million in large sized contributions (those over $5,000) to Hulshof’s $2.8.

Hulshof received some much needed help in the form of a fundraiser with a very high power guest: President George W. Bush. The event netted Hulshof roughly $1.5 million. That should go a long way to helping Hulshof close that fund raising gap.

For those that would like to help keep the Democrats from taking over the Governor’s mansion, you go donate to the Hulshof campaign here.

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At the debate on Thursday night between Senator Joe Biden and Governor Sarah Palin, Senator Biden made this claim about the McCain health care plan to offer a $5,000 refundable tax credit:

You know how John McCain pays for his $5,000 tax credit you’re going to get, a family will get? He taxes as income every one of you out there, every one of you listening who has a health care plan through your employer. That’s how he raises $3.6trillion on your — taxing your health care benefit, to give you $5,000 plan, which, his website points out, will go straight to the insurance company. And then you’re going to have to replace a $12,000– that’s the average cost of the plan you get through your employer;it costs $12,000 — you’re going to have to pay — replace $12,000plan, because 20 million of you are going to be dropped. Twenty million of you will be dropped. So you’re going to have to place –replace a $12,000 plan with a $5,000 check you’ve just given to the insurance company. I call that the ultimate Bridge to Nowhere. [Transcript available on C-SPAN's Debate Hub]

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