Photos, women who vote.

This is one of those photos that looks a lot stranger than video of the event would be, but it's still bizarre. [link]

Looks like McCain has gone all senile and is trying to gram Obama's butt....

Oh, I read recently that the GOP has adopted its most extreme pro-life plank ever. It's weird - they're appealing more and more to their extreme base and scaring everybody else away, even while their extreme base is shrinking (relative to the whole population).

That's an unfortunate video still.

Well, I could swear I saw McCain do a little dance at the end. . . I was very, very tired.

Peeps vote!

Chimpanzee babysits two white tigers--make sure to see the slideshow here.

Cripes, y'all. I just got a Boss's Day card and gift cert from my Palinite underling. When did I become The Man?

The airquotes thing set off white hot rage I haven't felt in a long time.

More on the abortion thing: Palin and Christian Right on Abortion Warpath

Although the issue of abortion had not come previously in the debates, it is very much in play on the campaign trail, especially in a number of battleground states. Often, while the term itself isn't used, it is clearly the subtext when the question of appointments to the U.S. Supreme Court is discussed, or the phrase "judicial activism" -- meaning politicized legal decisions -- is used.

Not having the issue raised during the vice-presidential debate has not stopped Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, Sen. John's McCain Republican Party running mate, from raising the issue a number of times in different venues.

In addition, South Dakota, Colorado and California all have abortion-related initiatives on their November ballots; initiatives that are aimed at ending or limiting abortion rights.

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In South Dakota, anti-abortion activists are going over ground that was plowed two years ago when voters easily defeated an initiative aimed at outlawing all abortions. However, this time around abortion opponents appeared to soften the language in the initiative, "include[ing] language purporting to make exceptions for incest, rape or the life and health of the mother," a New York Times editorial pointed out.

"But no one should be fooled," the paper said. "The exceptions were drafted to make it nearly impossible to get an abortion, even during the first trimester of pregnancy. The measure is clearly unconstitutional under existing Supreme Court rulings, and that's just the point. The underlying agenda is to provide a vehicle for challenging Roe v. Wade..."

Amendment 48 in Colorado is a controversial ballot measure that would make the term "person" "include any human being from the moment of fertilization", with all the constitutional rights that confers.

The initiative would in "effect bestow on fertilized eggs, prior to implantation in the womb and pregnancy, the same legal rights and protections that apply to people once they are born," the New York Times editorial noted.

Interestingly, the Colorado measure is receiving little support from longtime abortion opponents, including the Catholic Church, and Gov. Bill Ritter, a self-described "pro-life" Democrat.