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The gremlins well and truly got in the works for this week's segment. Firstly problems with the connection to Pennsylvania that left Rhod sounding a bit like, as one texter put it, he was in the company of a small flock of birds and then a soundcard failure caused chaos a little later. Oh well that should hopefully be our ration of them for a while.

• We began this shorter than usual broadcast talking about the major interest in the blogosphere's role in the elections in the US. CNN has recruited a small army of top bloggers to document election night. A really cool idea. We also mentioned some of the .
• Pitt Britt and friends in Pittsburgh told us about the race there. The Skype connection sounded great and the comments from Jonathan and friends were great right up until the point when Jonathan's sound card gave out..we could hear him..but not him us..confusion all around. (To be fair this also happened with an ISDN line last election..leaving one guest talking for about 2-3minutes until we finally figured out she couldn't hear us asking her to stop talking. Well you can't do live radio 24/7 without stuff like this)
• of The American Thinker told us about campaign for an Illinois congressional district. There are a number of Iraq vets running, Tammy lost both her legs in the war, and we discussed whether this would herald the return of "swiftboating"
• joined us to talk used as a campaign weapon and how YouTube was affecting the race
• And lastly we couldn't finish without a clip of the . OK it's not exactly a serious campaign..but when you compare his commercials with ASAP's (a branch of Associated Press) it's hard to tell the real from the ridiculous.