It took me two days to digest the selection of Palin as VP for the Republican ticket.  Unfortunately, I see so much knee-jerk reaction that I fear we risk our shot at properly positioning the Obama campaign.  At the same time, we may sell short our chances to reach out to the big tent that Obama references as not a red America or a blue America, but the United States of America.

So, I think it is time to step back and reflect not on Sarah Palin, but about what we should be doing and saying.

Looks like there was a deliberate effort here in Pittsburgh to make it vastly more difficult for students to get to the polls.  Students asked to sign a medical marijuana petition find their party registration switched, polling place changed.

http://www.postgazette.com/pg/04297/400512.stm

Around here, when you show up to vote, they ask your party.  They then look in a long computer printout for your name.  If you have location or party wrong, they really can't help you.  It is up to you to figure out where your name might be listed.

Absolutely despicable, I only have to wonder where else this may have been happening.