[speekinout]

WILL the MD and regional GOP AND the NRA have the foresight and cohunnas to rally members to take election day off and go into the city and observe the polling places?

Yes. I have been volunteering for the Ehrlich campaign, and I have been assured that there will be GOP monitors at the Baltimore polling places (I assume those are the ones you are referring to)
I agree that this is the most important part of Ehrlich's campaign.

[pollwatcher]

What really set me off after the shakey '94 election was reading in the SUN that the MD GOP couldn't find enough pollwatchers - even for $100/day. The DIMs have no problem finding enough unemployed and off-job Unionist to do their deeds.

Tom Marr once observed that the GOP observers in some of the questionable districts were "Republicans in name only." I hope we have a handle on this.

If Bob uses Bush, look for Kathy to invoke her deceased family in ads to push the buttons of the faithful

My fear is this: with the race being so close, and the choices so clear, the DIM establishment will only need to do a little tweaking to put enough votes over, ala '94. And with them running the whole show, there will be nowhere we can find justice ("takin' it to the streets?" :-) )