1. Some fucking cracker manages to kill him.

2. It always seems like it's the battleground states with the creakiest, lest auditable, most suspect ballot methods.

The result will be one of two things,
1) a complete freak out
2) Jimmy Hendricks.

I'm not sure on the specifics, but the suit is apparently public record, and the DNC is refusing to turn over the relevant paperwork (probably because the suit is bull).

Option 1 is to drag Osama out of whatever cave he's in on the 25th or so and record some statement about how much he hates America and hopes his Muslim brother Obama will win. McCain will suspend his campaign and personally demonstrate that he *does* know how to capture Osama by capturing him with some General by his side 5 days later.

Option 2 is to have another terrorist attack on the nation on the 2nd of November, implement martial law, and in the ensuing confusion Obama is disappeared to Guantanamo. On November 9th hold a mock election and declare McCain the winner, but Cheney will hold his position as Puppeteer in Chief.

1.Bush nukes San Francisco, blames it on Muslims, declares a state of emergency, stays in office, and/or it shifts the stupid majority to start worrying about the terrersts again., and vote McCain to save them. Simultaneously, most Southern States vote that the day San Fran died should be a holiday celebrating the death of so many homosexuals.

2. Polls show likely voters, and not voters who's votes are likely to be counted. Most states are undergoing massive voter purges right now based on geography and race. Voting agencies will be overwhelmed with forced provisional votes, and most provisional voters won't fight for their rights. These purged voters will be enough to completely upset Obama's popular lead.

For the record, I think Obama like Kerry and Gore is going to win, but unlike them, I think he will be sworn into office as well. I think the Republicans are a few million votes ahead due to fraud, but that Obama will beat the spread.

And can we just drop the convention whereby anybody alleging election shenanigans is lumped in with UFO enthusiasts? Any organized effort to circumvent the law is by definition a "conspiracy," so quit using it as a synonym for "wacky theory."

-- enter a computer (or network of computers) containing vote totals

-- alter the totals (e.g., +5% Bush, -5% Kerry) and leave the total # of votes the same

-- exit the voting network & remove all traces of itself.

I don't know the results or follow-up on Curtis's testimony, but I'm not surprised at all that the corporate media has not investigated this.

This is an incredibly chilling scenario that, in the absence of any paper trail, would be relatively easy to pull off.

I just voted for him today on an electronic touch machine. I had to call someone over to coax the thing to display the screen at the end that let me actually register the vote. This involved paging through the entire set of vote review screens 2 or 3 times. I saw a woman across the way who seemed to have to totally redo her vote.

Expensive, craptacular, and scary.

While I don't think this will be enough to turn the tide of the election all by itself, if Iran retaliated asymmetrically by a terrorist attack on US soil? Then I'm not so sure.

There is literally nothing, beyond a coup, that could stop Bush and Cheney from doing this. We lack the troops for a land invasion (and such an action would totally fuck over the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan) but could easily mount an air assault.

Bush Family Fortunes

Massive riots will engulf Seattle, SF, NYC, and DC; they will be suppressed violently by the US Army. Bush will declare martial law. Obama will be shot by a lone gunman. McCain will valiantly die while trying to save him. Palin anoints Dick Cheney the empty VP slot.

The real “Barack Obama” can devastate foreign policy with his kiss butt policies of placating dictators and allowing European policies to control US policy. That is surrendering sovereignty, which is turning over the Constitution to the World Court. That is validating persons like Hugo Chavez and Achmadinijad (His name is not on spell check) who are trying to gin up their populations in aggression to take over other countries (wipe Israel off the map). Obama does not want to just be President of the United States, he’d like to be President of the World. If you think people on his side are not noticing, this week Farrakhan called him “the Messiah”, an apocalyptic figure in Muslim theology who will oversee the conquest of the world. Jesse Jackson saying the influence of Israel’s concerns will be over with in an Obama presidency. That’s just this week.

No shit, she actually believes this.

http://www.hackingdemocracy.com/

http://stealingamericathemovie.org/

http://www.wthitv.com/Global/story.asp?S=9183764&nav=menu593_2

Tell that to the bankers getting bailouts :)

It'll be a suicide-type attack, which will push everyone's terrorism buttons; it will show that the Bad People hate and fear Republicans much more than Democrats; it will set up Palin as a martyr figure, the same way the unsuccessful attempt against Reagan brought the nation together; the attacker will be heard to shout something like "Obama forever," or be a registered Democratic voter or whatever; and it will give an excuse to declare martial law.

Just FYI, even if he *was* born in Kenya, which can probably be disproven by, you know, a birth certificate, his mother was a U.S. Citizen, and therefore, he is also a natural-born citizen, even if he was born overseas. That claim just doesn't hold water.

Despite Obama's best efforts to pin George Bush on McCain, the Ayers thing and the Joe the Plumber thing take greater hold in the minds of enough Americans, and in the media, and in that last great pendulum swing over the final weeks of the campaign, McCain manages to draw even enough with Obama in the polls. In spite of his electoral vote advantage, maybe McCain draws even there too.

On Election Day, things are tight, and in states like Michigan and Florida, there are disputes over votes and we get something like what happened in 2000. Shifty voting machines don't help either. It ends up close enough for McCain to call for recounts, and it goes to court.. And in that setting, his is given the Presidency.

If you're for a name to call this, for which to prescribe a pill, I suggest Twothousanditis, or Twothousandaphobia, for which you might prescribe Registrithium, with a smaller dose of Bradley Effexor. If those don't work, you may even suggest Electro-College Shock Therapy. But that's an old piece.

or:

obama will win the election. but not really... see charles post from yesterday. "She rinsed rat hearts with detergent until the cells washed away and all that remained was a skeleton of tissue translucent as wax paper — a ghost heart, as Taylor calls it. She injected the scaffold with fresh heart cells from newborn rats. Then she waited." http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/eanimator

they have destroyed this country for the foreseeable future--but that's fine--they are long-term plotters! the plan: they put the old trooper mccain up to "run for president" (har-har), to take another bullet for the ol' GOP team--good old mccain! perfect! 7,000 years old, a whisper from death, the stand-up good ol boy---this will be his last huzzah! a nice send off for the old coot! he has no real hope of winning, of course, and to ensure that, they paired him up with a blabbering vaginal hiccup from Alaska that is as qualified a VP as half a rusty can of tuna.

and then! they'll start releasing reports about mccanin's heart murmur! genius! all of the propagandists (bill o'riely et al) have already been ordered to begin expressing THEIR doubts about mccain (har-har!) and they'll throw this election big time! when obama wins in a landslide, they will relentlessly railroad the living shit out of him in ways jimmy carter and monica lewinsky never even dreamed POSSIBLE, and the GOP'll just sit back and laugh and let all of the weight of this disaster they've created crash down on obama (while waiting, fingers crossed, for one of the lunatic republican voters they've riled up takes shots at him).

obama thusly destroyed and properly scapegoated, the republicans usher in their next very charismatic candidate that they either a) already have picked out, b) grew in a hydroponics lab for their own evil purposes out of slime and monkey dna, or c) are in the process of choosing at this moment. It is from this point that they shall proceed with world destruction in earnest. at least half of this is undoubtedly possibly true. thank you and goodnight.

In May 2007, Bush issued a Presidential National Security Directive - National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive NSPD 51/HSPD 20. This directive suspends constitutional government and instates martial law in the case of a 'catastrophic emergency'. A 'catastrophic emergency,' is defined as 'any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions.'

And here's the kicker: He doesn't need Congressional approval.

"The President shall lead the activities of the Federal Government for ensuring constitutional government. . . ."

When do we exit? When the 'emergency' is over. And, from the looks of the language, the emergency can be just about anything - including the economy.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05/20070509-12.html

Enjoy. My bet is a suspension of normal government through this act, with the economy as justification, sometime in the next two weeks.

And squirrels. Somehow the squirrels have figured out that tin foil hats protects their brains from the HDTV transmissions that make us so passive.

I hope Adrian @ 44 is wrong.

Excuse me, but do you really think we would not riot in LA? Please. We practically invented riots.

NYC? Hmph. I'll believe it when I see it.

and yes, i hope we're both very, very wrong...

http://www.badempire.com/?p=155

The whole point of the "voter fraud" hubbub is so the Republicans can position themselves to make the new claim, come November, that had Obama somehow “fraudulently stole the election” and that his “supposed mandate for change” is really an electioneering sham.

Yes, silly as it sounds, upon this shaky foundation they will come to fashion a fortress of obstructionism, both vast and wide, and under its weigh the Ol’ Party’s grandness will further sink irretrievably, under the e’er shifting sands of time.

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and b) in which i predict the action against iraq (et al) three days after 9/11, dater 9/26/2001.

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Everyone knows that.

That's what I predict...

Mr Cheney dies in hospital, and Mr Bush appoints, not Mr McCain, but Mrs Palin vice president. (He can appoint anyone he wants.) This makes the GOP look terribly progressive; the voters figure that half the GOP slate is in already, and enough Hillary supporters like her so that a million of them vote for her and McCain.

Fuck, I can't stop thinking about it.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/09/24/army/

Army combat division deployed in the United States to help with "civil unrest and crowd control", conveniently starting October 1 before the election... sure, not enough troops for a full-on coup d'etat, as Greenwald admits... but how do we know there's not an army of Blackwater mercenaries staged somewhere to back them up?

All that aside, I'm with @63 et al. Bush/Cheney have had 8 years to stock every branch of federal government, top to bottom, with malicious obstructionists, incompetents, and moles. Add to that the incredible clusterfvck in the economy and everywhere else... The Obama team has some world-class management talent, but they're going to have world-class handicaps as well.

About the "born in Kenya" issue - wouldn't the easiest way to disprove this be to check his mother's passport? She would have had to have been there... unless the conspiracy runs deeper than any of us could imagine!

Jesus, I want to go to sleep until this is all over. I cannot take it.

I figure all of the early votes that people are making are going straight into a shredder. Then on election day, a lot of the Obama voters will have already "voted" and so the results will skew to McCain.

Mobs of McCain supporters prevent African American and Latino voters from getting to the polls, sparking race riots. At least one of these mobs will attempt to take down Obama at a public event.

If Obama survives and still manages to win despite all this, the Republicans will charge him with vote fraud and possibly initiate legal action to prevent his inauguration.

Really, I think he'll actually win handily and everything will be more or less OK, but I do have my scary place about losing this election, and this description is part of what it looks like.

About the "born in Kenya" issue - wouldn't the easiest way to disprove this be to check his mother's passport? She would have had to have been there... UNLESS this conspiracy runs deeper than any of us could have ever imagined.

Jesus, I want to go to sleep until this is all over. I cannot take it.

Girl, I want you here with me
But I'm really not as cool as I'd like to be
cause there's a red, under my bed
And there's a little yellow man in my head
And there's a true blue inside of me
That keeps stoppin me, touchin ya, watchin ya, lovin ya

Paranoia, the destroyer.
Paranoia, the destroyer.

Well I fell asleep, then I woke feelin kinda queer
Lola looked at me and said, ooh you look so weird.
She said, man, there's really something wrong with you.
One day you're gonna self-destruct.
You're up, you're down, I can't work you out
You get a good thing goin then you blow yourself out.

Silly boy ya self-destroyer. silly boy ya self-destroyer

Silly boy you got so much to live for
So much to aim for, so much to try for
You blowing it all with paranoia
Youre so insecure you self-destroyer

(and it goes like this, here it goes)
Paranoia, the destroyer
(here it goes again)
Paranoia, the destroyer

Dr. Dr. help me please, I know you'll understand
Theres a time device inside of me, I'm a self-destructin man
There's a red, under my bed
And there's a little green man in my head
And he said, you're not goin crazy, you're just a bit sad
cause there's a man in ya, gnawin ya, tearin ya into two.

Silly boy ya self-destroyer.
Paranoia, the destroyer

Self-destroyer, wreck your health
Destroy friends, destroy yourself
The time device of self-destruction
Light the fuse and start eruption

(yea, it goes like this, here it goes)
Paranoia, the destroyer
(heres to paranoia)
Paranoia, the destroyer
(hey hey, here it goes)
Paranoia, the destroyer
(and it goes like this)

Paranoia, the destroyer
(and it goes like this.)

Bonus points for working McCain himself into the theory as a fall guy/patsy for the left to beat up on.

- voter fraud (republican owned business making black boxes and all the old tricks)

- a 'terrorist' attack. This could either give McCain a 'bump' (or provide plausible deniability that it did) because you know, those R's are just so much better at foreign policy, we can't change horses in midstream etc etc...

- What happens if both Biden and Obama are killed in between now and the election?

Look, we can come up with a list of ways this is gonna go down until it reads like the lyrics to “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” but the fact is that we know—in our heart of hearts—that there is no way in hayll that the Republican Party and their nutcase neo-fascist supporters—which have spent the last three decades relentlessly lying and dismantling our system of government and economy—are going to allow an Obama presidency and progressive Demoncrat control of both houses of Congress.

We need to start contingency planning AND I MEAN MORE THAN FREAKIN’ BLOGGING ABOUT IT! They’re not gonna be defeated with sarcasm and snark, you know.

We’ll need all workers to stage a national strike. Refusal to work and collective bargaining are the only real threats to their power.

http://spitenvitriol.blogspot.com/
(see: "McCain: An Alternative Narrative")