Ohio

Ohio may or may not turn out to be the crucial state on Tuesday, but it does look like it's going to be the biggest battlefield. GOPers are engaging in voter suppression efforts ranging from manipulating the legal system (or trying to), to cutting phone lines for Kerry phonebanks, to false information in flyers and phone calls to prevent minority voters from voting.

The media is on the story in general, but often falls for the GOPer tales of illegal registrations as a scandal. The one case of somebody allegedly paid in crack for filling out registration forms with fake names has become the welfare mom of the campaign. The only problem is that this kind of registration fraud has no impact on election day, since there are no live voters to go vote---Mickey Mouse or any of the other fake names just aren't going to show up to vote. But suppressing actual votes with false challenges, malacious misinformation, and intimidation are direct attacks on this basic right of voting.

But this time the GOPers aren't dealing with the unprepared, and certainly not with wimps. Every Kerry rally ends with this:
Blood brothers in the stormy night with a vow to defend
No retreat, baby, no surrender