Some Virginian troublemakers are distributing a flier claiming Democrats should vote on November 5th, not November 4th:

A phony State Board of Elections flier advising Republicans to vote on Nov. 4 and Democrats on Nov. 5 is being circulated in several Hampton Roads localities, according to state elections officials.
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The four-paragraph flier concludes with: "We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause but felt this was the only way to ensure fairness to the complete electorial process."

Virginia's state police are looking into this mess, but they have no leads yet. Obviously they should start with people who want to see the Democrats fail in the election.

Well I'll be! Turns out that not all McCain-Palin rallies are heady hives of sticky-faced clown people calling Barack Obama a terrorist ACORN "nigra".

Click through to see video of some Republicans at a Virginia rally – a few of them Muslim – swarming and haranguing two jackasses who are defaming Obama by saying he's an Islamic Communist.

Surprisingly, the guy with the sticker on his head is one of the rational folk.

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Hoping to turn the tables on Barack Obama - and spin declining numbers in his favor - John McCain retooled his stump speech today.

Rather than relying on negative attacks and innuendo, the Republican presidential candidate attempted to set himself up as an underdog ready to fight for the White House. The media's coverage, he claims, has been far too dismissive.

Said McCain to a crowd of 20,000 12,000 in Virginia Beach:

Let me give you the state of the race today and some straight talk. We have 22 days to go. We're 6 points down. The national media has written us off. But they forgot to let you decide.

What America needs in this hour is a fighter, someone who puts all his cards on the table and trusts the judgment of the American people.

McCain and Palin are definitely sweating Virginia, a state that hasn't gone to the Democrats since 1964. Obama, however, may change that: the Senator has a slim three-point lead, according to a Washington Post/ABC News poll. Despite this anomaly, McCain insists he and his supporters have the Democrats "right where we want them."

John McCain simply can't escape the negative inertia of his disorganized campaign.

Trying desperately to turn around from last week's ugliness, McCain this weekend countered a woman who said she couldn't trust Barack Obama because he's an Arab.

Hoping to disarm the woman's worry, McCain insisted his opponent's a decent family man and not an Arab, which represents a slight move forward for McCain, who last week stood by silently as his supporters called for Obama's head.

McCain's resistance to anti-Obama rhetoric, however, may be undercut by his ignorance over his own camp's stance.

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We really hoped this historic election wouldn't fall into the cesspool of racism and bigotry.

Damn you, optimism! Damn you!!!

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Virginia-based Christian activists are crying "censorship" after a local library rejected their ex-gay texts.

Backed by the anti-gay Family Research Council, organizers in Fairfax, Virginia sent reviews of "pray-away-the-gay" books to their local library, but the library coordinator Susan Thornley flat out refused to consider the divisive texts, saying, "Donations should not be at the expense of minority populations or make the reader feel inferior… These books were not research based. There were not facts to back it up."

Gay foes failed to understand Thornley's argument, of course, and gathered yesterday to protest the library's allegedly anti-Christian stance. And, of course, they sent out about forty students to do their dirty work.

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Yesterday's elections weren't a total loss for gay politicians.

Sure, former business man Jim Neal lost his bid for North Carolina's Senate, but Virginia-based political Lawrence Webb made a big mark: he's now the state's first black and gay elected official.

Totally radical!

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Virginia's anti-gay Episcopal churches got some love from the state's Attorney General this week. Eleven churches broke away last year to align with international Anglicans who disapprove of the US-branches gay-inclusive policies. The split races some serious questions about property, namely: who gets what?

Now Virginia A.G. Bob McDonnell has taken the dissenters' side:

The attorney general urged Circuit Judge Randy I. Bellows to follow a state law dating back to the Civil War era in resolving the dispute.

That law allows a majority vote of the congregation to determine ownership and affiliation when a "division" has occurred within a religious denomination.

The Episcopal Church argues that the state law is unconstitutional because it requires that the court wade into theological issues such as whether a schism has occurred within the Episcopal denomination.

In his motion, McDonnell writes that the Constitution "does not require that local church property disputes be resolved by deferring to national and regional church leaders."

Rather than examining the actual property contracts, McDonnell hopes the court will simply look into whether the dissociation was done "properly".

Virginia resident John Stec takes issue with The Roanoke Time's consistent support of gay rights and "equality". The engineer apparently doesn't believe gays should have, deserve or need any such things. Nor does he seem to understand the full extent of homosexual inclinations:

A man or boy can love another man or boy without the exchange of bodily fluids. I love my father deeply. Affection is physically given and proven by an appropriate and occasional embrace and a kiss. I love some of my friends deeply. They know it. They know it by my conversation, my commitment to their well-being and by the things we enjoy together. And they know it without having to disrobe to perform sex.
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If your "equality" means equating the ages-old institution of traditional marriage with two men doing disgusting, highly unsanitary things, then I couldn't disagree with you more. But if you meant giving homosexuals similar employment opportunities as heterosexuals, then that's OK, as long as they keep their physical affectations to themselves, just as heterosexuals must, in the workplace.

At least he's not entirely irrational.

Virginian senatorial candidate Jill Holtzman Vogel and husband Alex Vogel prove the old adage: politics makes for strange bedfellows.

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