With some last minute thoughts.
A HAWK FOR KERRY: A Brit who faced the wrath of his fellow Guardian readers for supporting the Iraq war says he’s now for Kerry.
ZOGBY: His penultimate poll basically gives the election to Kerry, barring Florida. He has a tie there.
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Another conspicuous aspect of the tape is the absence of common Islamist themes that are relevant to the month of Ramadan, which for fundamentalists like bin Laden is the month of Jihad and martyrdom. Noticeably absent from the Al-Jazeera tape was his usual appearance with a weapon, and more importantly the absence of references to Jihad, martyrdom, the Koran, the Hadith (Islamic tradition), Crusaders, Jews, and the legacy of the Prophet Muhammad on the duty to wage Jihad against the infidels. For the followers of the Al-Qa’ida ideology, this speech sends a regressive and defeatist message of surrender, as seen in the move from solely using Jihad warfare to a mixed strategy of threats combined with truce offers and election deals.” – Yigal Carmon, president of MEMRI, on the latest OBL tape.
VOTER-SUPPRESSION: Using homophobia to suppress the black vote. It’s been going on in Michigan.
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