Above the Law has a disturbing dispatch from Pennsylvania. Some voting machines have broken down and voters are casting their votes on paper ballots. According to ATL’s Elie Mystal, voters are being told that their emergency votees on paper will be counted as provisional ballots, not as ordinary votes:

Here’s the Drudge Headline, which was in 72-point font before it got bumped for a story about Bloomberg’s term limits: SHOCK: MCCAIN VOLUNTEER ATTACKED AND MUTILATED IN PITTSBURGH…’B’ CARVED INTO 20-YEAR OLD WOMAN’S FACE… DEVELOPING…

Here’s the Pittsburgh Post Gazette story that Drudge is construing as a politically-motivated crime. A 20-year-old McCain staffer was brutally mugged outside a bank:

At a rally in Pennsylvania today, John McCain tried to criticize Barack Obama and John Murtha for criticizing the endemic racism in certain parts of western Pennsylvania. He didn’t quite pull it off.

Another Sarah Palin supporter called for the murder of Barack Obama at rally in Joe Biden’s hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania:

More bad news for the NRCC (the article is from Roll Call, subsciption required):

A new poll commissioned by his challenger’s campaign showed Rep. Phil English (R-Pa.) trailing in his bid for an eighth term by a single percentage point.

The poll showed businesswoman Kathy Dahlkemper (D) leading English 41 percent to 40 percent, with 19 percent undecided.