Counting down to US elections: 12 days

America will vote in the 2006 general elections in less than two weeks. Here is some assorted election-related news: (See the previous "counting down" post for some cool election links.)
Another link I would like to add to my list is BBC News' election coverage... a great feature.

Election update
Ever more voting machine troubles; John Zogby outlines some of the 2006 mid-term US elections to watch; will the Internet really do its part to help democracy?

Iraq
See post on Iraq here.

Fox v. Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh ridicules actor Michael J. Fox's call for stem cell legislation in various political adverts and the actor's rallying for Democrats because of that issue (as does the family of the late "Superman", Christopher Reeve, as well as many other non-Hollywood people); Fox responds. There have also been suggestions by the American far right-wing that Fox faked his illness of Parkinson's disease. Read more about Limbaugh's ridiculousness in this post.

Political ads
GOP (and other) political advertisements (here is one): They are ads for a reason: to convince people of things from a perspecive positive to the advertisers (i.e. the RNC, Republican candidates) against their compitition (the Democrat opponents). People need to understand that before they jump to conclusions on the message of ads like Democrats raising taxes, etc. And the Dems need to make an ad in response about the deficit if they don't want to look like pussies even more.

Speaker reigned in
Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Dennis Hastert, has testified to an ethics committee on the Rep. Mark Foley matter and the apparent GOP coverup of it.

The North strikes back...
Not really related to the elections, but North Korea is back in the headlines (N. Korea situation wrap-up).

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