Bush's telecom wire that wouldn't go away and other headlines you missed

A senior research physicist with NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Nelson is an internationally recognized authority on image analysis. The last couple of days he’s been poring over the photographs that the Cassini spacecraft is sending back from frigid Titan. Before that, however, for the past week, he was working on this:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/10/29/4517/5631

Also, on last night's “Daily Show,” uncannily accurate pollster John Zogby predicted confidently that Kerry will win! Yee-haw!

However, evil lurks in Florida:
Postal Experts Hunt for Missing Ballots in Florida
“,,,Broward deputy supervisor of elections Gisela Salas said 60,000 absentee ballots, accounting for just over 5 per cent of the electorate in the county north of Miami, were sent out between Oct. 7 and Oct. 8 to voters who would not be in town on election day. … While some had begun to be delivered, her office had been inundated with calls from anxious voters who still had not received their ballots. …”
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6630631