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KSDK News in St. Louis, MO is reporting:

Dead voters still registered

By Leisa Zigman, I-Team Reporter

KSDK — The push to register voters for this year’s presidential election is breaking records all over the country. A record-setting 4,205,774 registered voters are on the books in Missouri. That number includes over 340,000 first time voters. But are they all legal?

Using high tech computer software, the NewsChannel 5 worked with the National Institute of Computer Assisted Reporting to find the answers.

Worried about the viability of Social Security? Unless you’re already collecting it, you should be!

Follow the animated adventures of Sonny, exactly the sort of youth who is set to get screwed by a system designed during The Great Depression, when workers were plenty and retirees rare.

SurveyUSA has Sam Graves (R) leading Kay Barnes (D) by a commanding 54-36%. Graves (the incumbent) looks to be cruising to re-election.

Obama’s I apologize for being late to hearings compilation

I love how they use some grainier video for some of the earlier recording. That seems to strike a certain archive footage look.

This one is done by a fifth grader. Apparently the kid didn’t know that the good Senator can be a little long winded. Watch his arm holding the mic.

In Episode Four, Sonny learns the big secret of Social Security: That all payroll taxes go into the federal government’s general fund and are spent on all sorts of programs and activities that have nothing to do with individuals’ retirements.

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Friday, October 24, 2008
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Gov. Blunt Expresses Concern about Integrity of Upcoming Election

JEFFERSON CITY - Gov. Matt Blunt, who served as secretary of state during the last presidential election, today issued the following statement expressing concern about the integrity of the upcoming election in light of the investigation into voter registration fraud committed by the liberal group ACORN:

It comes from a college blogger by the name of Alex Mayer. I found him this summer when he interned at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and was a regular contributor to their blog Political Fix. He finished his midterms and put down a great point-by-point take down of the Powell endorsement of Obama: