Olbermann continues to flog the recount story. How much longer will MSNBC let him keep up this story before they make him wear a tin foil hat?

What do Ohio's newspapers think about possible election fraud?

"We have written a lot about it, but we have found very little evidence that anything has happened in the election that didn't happen in every other [Ohio] election," said Ben Marrison, editor of The Columbus Dispatch. "Every rock we have turned over, we've found nothing."

He cited the state's biggest election problem being too few voting machines. "But our analysis shows they had waits everywhere," he adds, "in Democratic and Republican precincts."

Why is the left so convinced that Republicans stole the election? Maybe it is because they are not above doing it themselves. There is an on-line poll for the best blog and someone at the Daily Kos posted a program for cheating. Rather than removing it or condemning it, they think that this is great.

Hugh Hewitt has some thoughts about how this reflects on their character:

That there is no great consequence from their cheating does not mean that the cheating is without significance. In fact, I think it is a great piece of evidence to put forward in the case of why center-right activists fear "recounts" like those underway in Washington State and those conducted by Gore-Lieberman forces in Florida in 2000.

The Captains Quarters has worse to say:

It's the equivalent of bringing a marked deck to a poker game with matchsticks for stakes. It reveals Moulitsas' character more than anything he writes for his site. Isn't it odd that the same people who claim that Republicans and conservatives spend their time ginning up new and creative ways to cheat in elections have no qualms about screwing Kevin out of an opportunity to do something fun for the entire blogosphere? If not odd, their ease and pride in cheating is certainly instructive.

Powerline Blog also weighs in:

This is sickening, but typical. Kevin Aylward of Wizbang goes to a lot of trouble to set up a competition that is intended to recognize as many blogs as possible and introduce people to blogs they don't already know. It's done in a spirit of fun, and relies on a modicum of good faith among the participants. But liberals don't seem to be able to do anything honestly, to follow the most minimal standards of sportsmanship, or to do anything in a spirit of good will and good humor. Since Kevin hasn't designed the competition using national security-level safeguards against cheating, the liberals think it's OK to ruin the contest for everyone else by writing code that racks up thousands of fictitious votes for "their" blogs. Not only do they see nothing wrong with this, they brag about it openly.

All of this is nothing new. With each debate, the Democrats organized a massive effort to skew on-line polls on who won. They were also so successful at orchestrating letters to the editor that a few letters arrived before the debates.

So, are we to trust the country to people who think cheating is right is their cause is just?

and don't tell me that Bush lied. Saddam lied and everyone, Democrats and Republicans, believed him.