"I did not take this office to do things the way they've always been done," Schwarzenegger said, repeatedly voicing optimism in his speech. "This election was not about replacing one man or one party..."

What Was it About?

With the entrenchment of new sleek computerized voting machines, we have indeed entered a new era. Like in days of yore, political battles will now be decided by champions. The champions we've come to expect but a new breed.
The men behind the computers.
Each party puts forth the man who can best hack the voting computers. Might as well have one computer for the whole state, and let them both have at it. One computer, one vote. No more worries about counting the paper ballots, like in Jeb Bush's Florida debacle. That's how we got the leader we deserved for the 911 catastrophe. Even there, the vote was decided in advance by a $4.1 million dollar hack that kept those most likely to vote against the home team off the ballot completely. For those of you who still haven't heard Greg Pallast's coverage of the Best Democracy Money Can Buy, many of those people are still trying to prove that they're not dead and fully capable of voting. But not in this Brave New World Order.
Electrifying News

recent AP coverage, full story

Mosul, Iraq -- An Arab television station broadcast a new audiotape on Sunday that it said had been made by Saddam Hussein in which he calls for holy war....
President Bush dismissed the tape, which he said he had not yet heard,(?!) as "the same old stuff."
"It's propaganda," he said, "and we're not leaving until the job is done."
Susan Sachs,ннNew York Times