Update: The FBI is investigating.

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The last-ditch campaign to save the Republican Senate may be underway in Virginia:

The Virginia State Board of Elections has received complaints of several instances of alleged voter intimidation and suppression in multiple localities in the commonwealth.

The Virginia State Board of Elections is investigating complaints that voter suppression tactics have been unleashed in African American and Democratic neighborhoods. They include telephone messages like this one:

“This message is for Timothy Daly. This is the Virginia Elections Commission. We've determined you are registered in New York to vote. Therefore, you will not be allowed to cast your vote on Tuesday. If you do show up, you will be charged criminally."

Other voters have been told -- falsely -- that their polling place had changed.

Apparently Republicans believe they constitute all whites:

Congressman John Lewis, Former Mayor and Wal-Mart star Andy Young, and current Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin have up a very vile ad attacking white people, which you can listen to here.

As a listen to the ad demonstrates, it is an ad criticizing Republicans, not white people. What does Michael Steele think of this Red State idea that Republican = white?

BTW, the idea of the author of the vile Georgia Voter ID law lecturing JOHN LEWIS on racism is rather sick.

Gawd help us, let's hope SUSA wins the polling sweepstakes this year. First Webb up 8 and now:

Since Survey USA began polling likely Missouri voters months ago, the cliffhanger race has see-sawed frequently. The day before the election, Survey USA, in a poll exclusively for KSDK in St. Louis, found that McCaskill had opened up a lead, getting support from 51% of likely voters in Missouri, and Talent getting 42%. This is the first time one candidate has been deemed to have a lead significantly outside the margin of error (+/-3.3 in this poll).

The "shrill" Josh Marshall:

Atrios has this right. CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS and Fox are each ignoring the GOP's nationwide campaign of false-flag robocalls meant to harass voters and fool them into thinking the calls come from Democrats. If it were Dem on GOP, if it were on Drudge, the cable nets would be on it wall-to-wall. As it is, they're content to ignore it.

That's because the powers-that-be in the mainstream media are in the tow of the Republican party. The Halperins and Crowleys of the news biz are all part of the same corruption.

Like Halperin says, Drudge rules their world.

You have to understand that and absorb that before you can set about doing what's necessary to change it.

Well, we get to hear a bunch of "pundits" spout nonsense about the "state of the race." So newsworthy.

UPDATE: ABC covered it on its nightly news. I am sincerely shocked. Good for ABC.

David Corn asks whether Bush and Cheney want the Republicans to lose tomorrow, citing Bush's recent endorsement of Rumsfeld, his refusal to acknowledge reality in Iraq, and Cheney's decision to go hunting on Election Day. A more likely explanation for Bush's actions: an arrogant inability to accept the consequences of his inept decision-making. And from Cheney's perspective: hiding from reality in a duck blind is more pleasant than confronting it.

Will 2006 finally be the end of Newt Gingrich's Contract on America?

Among those GOP lawmakers in hard-fought races are several vying for seventh terms, first elected in the Republican revolution of 1994. Back then, the party gained 52 seats to end four decades of Democratic control with promises of balancing the budget and enacting term limits.

Of course, any adherent to the Gingrich contract who is still in office has ignored the contract's "term limits" plank. Republicans who don't keep their promises? What a shock.

The late deciders are going to Webb:

Democrat Jim Webb has surged ahead of Republican George Allen in the last poll of the campaign, conducted for News-7 by SurveyUSA. The survey shows Webb with 52% of the likely voters, with 44% going to Allen.

The Booker decision gave federal judges an opportunity to craft sentences that are appropriate to the offender and offense, guided but not bound by the federal sentencing guidelines. Appellate courts after Booker are to review sentences for reasonableness.

Many federal appellate courts have undermined the Booker decision by reversing sentences that fall below the advisory guideline sentence, and some have gone so far as to deem a guideline sentence presumptively reasonable, while giving less deferential scrutiny to sentences that are more lenient than the guidelines suggest. (Courts seem less troubled by sentences that exceed the advisory guideline.) These decisions have the practical effect of restoring the binding force of the guidelines, recreating the constitutional problem that Booker purported to solve: mandatory punishment for crimes that are never proved to a jury. (TalkLeft background on the Booker decision is collected here.)

The Supreme Court on Friday accepted review of two cases that question whether within-guideline sentences deserve more deferential review than those that fall outside the guidelines.

Because the rule of law is indifferent to identity, even the loathsome deserve a fair trial. Curtis Doebbler, a member of Saddam Hussein's defense team, explains why the Hussein verdict and death sentence is "a classic instance of 'victor's injustice' imposed on the heels of the illegal US invasion of Iraq."

All exculpating evidence was withheld from the defense; defense witnesses were threatened by court officials; defense lawyers were assaulted by US officials; and the defendants we not given the charges against them until eight months after the prosecution had started presenting evidence and the day the defense was required to start its case. The list of violations is long and undoubtedly the reason why every independent expert has found the trial unfair.

As you travel to your polling place tomorrow, don't take a short-cut through the woods: Dick Cheney is going hunting.

It will be Cheney's first hunting trip since February, when he accidentally shot a hunting companion while attempting to fire at a covey of quail on a private ranch in Texas.

As Democrats are poised to take control of the House (and perhaps the Senate), some business leaders are saying things like this:

"Barney Frank is fair, he's smart, and he's focused," says former Representative Steve Bartlett (R-Tex.), now CEO of the Financial Services Roundtable. "That's the kind of leadership we need."

Business Week reassures its readers that Democrats are not hostile to business (or, the article implies, to corporate lobbyists). Democrats will, however, take oversight of multinational corporations a bit more seriously than the Republicans did:

Of course, even a more conciliatory approach probably won't deter Democrats from convening oversight hearings to target certain industries with close ties to the Bush White House -- particularly energy, pharmaceuticals, insurance, and defense.

The most recent of the generic polls, the one furthest from John Kerry, predicts a huge Dem tidal wave:

The percentage of likely voters who plan to vote for Democrats in Tuesday's congressional elections increased in the past week, and those voters supporting Democrats also seem less likely to change their minds before casting ballots, according to a CNN poll conducted over the weekend. Democrats hold a 58 percent to 38 percent advantage over Republicans among likely voters in the survey released Monday morning, compared to the 53 percent to 42 percent advantage reflected in the poll a week ago.

And Bush's approval ratings suffered due to his high visibility:

President Bush's popularity took another dip over the past week, and four out of 10 likely voters said their disapproval of the job he is doing will impact how they cast their congressional ballots on Tuesday, according to a new CNN poll. Bush's approval rating fell to 35 percent, with 61 percent of those polled saying they disapproved of the way he is handling his job as president, in the survey conducted on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. This represents a two point decline in Bush's approval rating compared to the CNN poll conducted a week earlier and it is four points lower than the survey taken two weeks ago.

Sending Bush out may have energized the GOP base, but it seems to have deepened the anger of Dems and Independents as well. A two-edged sword for the Republicans.