BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA (November 4, 2008)
The most prominent political blog, DailyKos.com, welcomed its 1,000,000th user just before midnight prior to today's Presidential election. Under the site's rules, the user, named "1M," will not be able to comment for 24 hours, until the election is over.
The strain on the energy grid imposed by DailyKos, meanwhile, continues to be one of the defining issues of the campaign. A so-called "meta-satire" diary posted days before the election, entitled "Delete my [unprintable] pie-hole, Gilligan!", led to a blackout across most of the country. Makers of electronic voting machines have been panicked at the possibility of the need to resort to paper ballots.
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(continued from front page) "We're not set up for this," complained Ohio's Secretary of State. "We were counting on those voting machine working! Now we have no idea what will happen today!"
Meanwhile, surprise Democratic nominee John Conyers and surprise Republican nominee Alan Keyes continued to hurl invective at one another. Keyes attacked Conyers for spelling out his entire platform and program on the DailyKos website, challenging him for associating with such lowlifes. Conyers's Vice-Presidential nominee, Maryscott O'Connor, responded that Keyes was an [unprintable] [unprintable] twisted [unprintable] with [unprintable] [unprintable] and unfashionable [unprintable].
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