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Ernest Luning — of TWI’s sister site, The Colorado Independent — is on the scene in Denver, where President Obama is set to sign the much-anticipated stimulus bill and deliver some remarks shortly. Luning will be liveblogging the event, and you can follow the play-by-play here.

Scattered problems amid a big Election Day turnout is the story from polls in five states covered by the Center for Independent Media network.
In Oakland County in suburban Detroit, a key swing county, election officials are preparing to hand count ballots after the county clerk complained that four voting machines had failed pre-election testing, according [...]

Over at our sister site The Colorado Independent, Jonathan Kaplan has a great new take on the ACORN controversy.
Kaplan suggests that Sen. John McCain’s voter-fraud charges against ACORN might be motivated by a desire to undermine the legitimacy of an Obama presidency and deter future political participation by African- Americans.