Great point, but I have a feeling this jury was from the 'hood, and they wouldn't have convicted even with videotaped proof.

Hm . . . reminds me of "business as usual" in E. St. Louis. Talk about a culture of corruption.

Mary M, tubino,

I can't believe Democrats would do this.

??

The Democrats are "tolerant" of this cheating and criminality because it's so successful, it comprises an important component of such success as they enjoy.

That, and that "plantation" mentality of theirs. Sorry, Hil.

Cordially...

I've lived all my life in Chicago, so the Democrats' bellyaching about "vote fraud" and "stolen elections" amuses me to no end.

I had a good laugh when Al Gore's campaign manager, William Daley - son of Mayor Richard I and brother of Richard II, a man whose very name is synonymous with crooked elections - demanded an "honest accounting" of the Florida ballots. As if his family hadn't forged more ballots and "disappeared" more voting machines than you or I or the federal district attorney for northern Illinois will ever know.

Nobody in this area is suprised. Dogstar hit the nail on the head.

Who was handling this case? The UN's nuclear non-proliferation agency? Talk about toothless.

The Democrats' outrage at 'vote supression' would be a lot more convincing if they were not so tolerant of it within their ranks.

Prosecutors built most of their case on testimony from out-of-state Democratic operatives who had come to work on the Wisconsin campaign alongside the defendants - Michael Pratt, 33, Lewis G. Caldwell, 29, Lavelle Mohammad, 36, Justin Howell, 21, and Sowande Omokunde, 26. The witnesses said the local men boasted about their crippling attack on the Republican vehicles.

Ah, I guess that totally explains why the Democratic prosecutor dragged his feet (you know DA's tend to do that when they have multiple witnesses) and why Howard Dean and other Democratic leaders haven't made a peep over this story.

Yeah, that explains it.

Moron.

I wonder if Olbermann will be dedicating 6 weeks straight of his show to this story like he did between Election Day 2004 and thereading of the electoral votes in the Senate and claiming Ohio was stolen.

Is the sentence really that important? Frankly, it gives me one more good reason to stick with the party that promised austerity, and delivered, um, growth.

That's what is important to me, anyway.

As a Milwaukee ex-pat, I have been following this and have to say that I am not suprised.

What you have to know is that "the machine" in Milwaukee is so powerful and corrupt, it makes the Chicago analoge look like a tea party.