of the Clinton campaign accusing others of trying to disenfranchise.  

Its minor but it must be looked into by the clinton camp.

I think Obama would probably lose Ohio by a larger margin than expected today .

The Nafta deal has hurt him.

And in Texas all the people I know down there who said obama would win last week , are all predicting today that Hillary Clinton would win there.

The reason was they pointed to for the momentum shift was the 3 am ad.

Who does the 'not properly credentialed' refer to? The Clinton voters or the Obama challengers? How would anyone know who is or is not a Clinton voter? The story needs to be fleshed out, with clearer syntax. Sourcing would be nice also.

Lynn Utrecht, chief campaign counsel for Sen. Hillary Clinton, said that she'd recieved reports from the field of Obama poll workers being kicked out of precincts for aggressively challenging voters. Adding it up, she said, "and it's a pattern."

And Tina Flournoy, a Clinton campaign adviser, compared the conduct to that of Republicans in the 2004 election.

"It's a pretty sad thing that people we now have to worry about are fellow Democrats," she said.

"The Secretary of state is wrong on the facts," said Obama spokesperson Dan Pfeiffer. "We are correctly credentialed and are calling now to correct any misunderstanding tot he contrary."

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0 308/Ohio_official_rejects_Obama_pollwatc her_letter.html

If true, you'd have to think that this will backfire.

always screw things up.

There's nothing anywhere that claims they're trying to disenfranchise anybody.  That's your own editorialization that you've made on the situation.  There was just some confusion about the credentials to be a poll monitor.  PLEASE STOP LYING.

Could this be the final dying breath of the vile Clinton smear machine?  Dare we dream, dare we dream...

... unless it amounts to more than a few scattered incidents, I wouldn't worry about it.

However, reading through the comments on Politico and Ambinder is eye-opening. There some commenters are certain that this is a dirty disenfranchisement scheme dreamed up by the Clinton campaign and the corrupt Democratic Ohio elected officials.

How far we've come since 2004. Remember then, when the Bush-Cheney folks were going to send poll observers to challenge voters in Ohio, and there was a last-minute flurry of lawsuits about it? Then, we all agreed that these poll observers were being sent to prevent people from voting. Here, well, apparently not letting them in is somehow preventing them from voting.

It's interesting that the rules were in place i Ohio long ago. there was even a directive issues on Feb 25 to clarify the rules and make sure everyone knew what they were.

Obama knew the rules as did his campaign. this stinks of desperation.

The Texas situation is much, much worse.

Obama poll workers handing out caucus sign in sheets and collecting them, telling people they don't have to come back tonight. It is not legal to hand out those form before the caucus opens.

Un Be Lie-vable!

Every day more his campaign hypocrisy astounds me.

in my precinct in West Oakland was doing election protection.

The precinct went overwhelmingly for Obama. There would have been absolutely no reason for an election protection lawyer to contest voters and I saw nothing of the sort and heard of nothing of the sort.

If the Clinton campaign wants to turn "election protection" legal volunteers into "voter disenfranchisement" they will have to provide proof and not smears.

Lynn Utrecht, chief campaign counsel for Sen. Hillary Clinton, said that she'd recieved reports from the field of Obama poll workers being kicked out of precincts for aggressively challenging voters. Adding it up, she said, "and it's a pattern."

And Tina Flournoy, a Clinton campaign adviser, compared the conduct to that of Republicans in the 2004 election.

"It's a pretty sad thing that people we now have to worry about are fellow Democrats," she said.

That's from your Ambinder link.  That's not proof. That's nothing but accusations at this point.

You need more than that to claim disenfranchisement, much less prove it.

Guess this is the CHANGE we can look forward to with him in WH.

I live in Cleveland. I see today "Obama supporters" removed Hillary signs and literally sat on them. It was really really disgusting.

Since (at least most) voters are not wearing a sign saying, Hillary, the original post makes a huge leap in stating would-be Obama observers are there to (a) challenge, and (b) specifically thwart Clinton supporters.