It looks as if there have been no serious voting irregularities in Pennsylvania.

... in that bad sort of way! President Bush has posted the all time highest Gallup disapproval rating.

So there's a primary going on today in Pennsylvania, and lots of people are getting out to vote. Never you mind that there's over 150,000 newly registered Democratic voters in the Keystone State. Consider this instead: on the news this morning, a correspondent for MSNBC reported that at a precinct in suburban Philadelphia, 17% of everyone that is eligible to vote in that precinct had already voted by 8:30 AM. I don't know what the turnout is like everywhere else, but that seems to be pretty heavy.

What if, starting next school year, the basic skills of football — how to catch the ball, make a tackle, throw a block — were taught only once to each beginner Texas player in the peewee leagues or in middle school, and then rarely, if ever, again?

Now take that and apply it to reading comprehension for public school students and you get the idea behind what the Chron's Lisa Falkenberg isn't crazy about.

All Three Presidential Candidates To Appear On WWE Monday Night Raw - CNN

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From Former Denver Broncos Kicker Jason Elam: "He Thought His Deadliest Enemy Knelt Across the Line of Scrimmage... HE WAS WRONG." - Monday Night Jihad

What is Ron Paul doing with his truckloads of money? Passively attacking John McCain.

h/t Texas Monthly's Poll Dancing

It isn't every day that the Secretary of Defense throws a whole branch of the military under the bus, but today was the day for Secretary Robert Gates and the Air Force to embark on that very journey.

In labor news, GM and UAW continue to have some rough days. The current ongoing struggle largely concerns local agreements on overtime and work rules. The strike at partsmaker American Axle must be also be considered as a strategic underpinning — as well as an undeniable influence — on other sets of negotiations.

What are the chances that when you see a retired officer on the news acting as a military analyst they are actually a PR flak deployed by the Pentagon?

TPMMuckraker reports that the Republican Party is in such electoral disarray that they can't even get their 527 message / swift boat-style attack groups coordinated, like Freedoms Watch. There are some dynamics at work here that I think are surprising, but indicative of the problems the GOP is having on the inside.