Video by…. Jim Geraghty???

Be sure to read updates 1 and 2 at the bottom.

The Plum Line reports that they’ve heard from voters in Cambridge, MA that they were given ballots that already had the bubble filled in next to Scott Brown’s name.

Note to readers: Please let me know what you’re seeing in the field today in Massachusetts.

A software engineer in Cambridge says he was handed a fishy ballot at the polling station in a local firehouse — it already had the bubble next to Scott Brown’s name filled in. But he doesn’t think it likely that it was fraud.

“Scott Brown’s bubble was already filled in,” the software engineer, Aaron Kemp, 28, tells me by phone. “I handed it back to them and asked, `Can I have a clean ballot, please?’”

CORRECTION: I initially, thought this story was outright bunk because MA ballots in towns I’ve lived in look like the one below, but as you’ll see in the comments section, someone has produced an image of a ballot with a bubble.  See the update at the bottom of this post. I was wrong, I admit it.

UPDATE: A few readers comment that their ballots have “bubbles.” I am willing to concede that I haven’t seen every ballot in the state of MA, but I have been voting here for years. For what it’s worth, every ballot I have ever filled out looked like the one above. One sharp reader shares this:

UPDATE 2: This is all a bunch of crap after all. It’s a desperate tactic being used by the Coakley campaign. Jim Geraghty at National Review produces a Coakley document dated yesterday, which highlights these accusations.

Moving on…

I’ve spoken with Stacy a few times today. He and Da Tech Guy went to the Scott Brown rally in the North End where Stacy and possibly Da Tech Guy got caught on film by Robert Costa of National Review in the Bay State Report blog. Read Stacy’s report on the Brown event here. And I think Da Tech Guy fulfilled a dream by getting the chance to ask Rudy Giuliani a question.

Stacy’s on the right and I think that might be Da Tech Guy coming up from the back. I don’t know who the tri-corner hat guy is but I like his attitude!

Bill Clinton, the UN envoy to Haiti, is in Massachusetts today stumping for Martha Coakley. When asked by National Review writer, Robert Costa about criticism of his decision to work on Coakley’s campaign instead of focusing on Haiti, the former president got a little testy…

BOSTON—In a conversation with National Review Online, former president Bill Clinton defended his appearance today at a rally for Democrat Martha Coakley while Haiti is recovering from Tuesday’s earthquake. When I told him that some had been critical of his decision to stump for Coakley while hundreds of thousands are still trapped under rubble, he responded with annoyance: “Who?” he challenged, “who is criticizing me? It’s your problem if you can’t see how these things aren’t mutually exclusive.” Electing Coakley, he said, will “help lead to good governance” that will support Haiti while it rebuilds. When Congressman Ed Markey told Clinton that I worked for National Review, Clinton concluded with this: “See, it’s you guys who are saying this stuff, I don’t hear it.” With that, he jumped in his SUV on his way to Worcester for another rally. Haiti, it seems, can wait.

Youch!

On the cover of their new issue. Heh.

Nihad Awad, the executive director of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) in an appearance on Hardball with Chris Matthews, points to the overwhelming amount of evidence that Major Hasan’s act of mass murder at Fort Hood had nothing whatsoever to do with radical Islam.  Umm…. OK.

In a word? Awesome.

Conservative favorite Jonah Goldberg has endorsed Doug Hoffman in the New York 23 congressional race:

“William F. Buckley’s policy was always that he was for the most conservative candidate electable. This has always struck me as the most pithy and most sensible statement on these kinds of questions. Protest votes on ideal candidates are ultimately ill-advised and self-indulgent.”

“I agree entirely that the GOP needs more moderates. It needs more everybody. But in NY 23  Hoffman  can win.  That means he’s not a protest vote, he’s a vote for the most conservative candidate electable.”

“Vote for Doug Hoffman.”

And as long as we’re talking about Doug Hoffman, check out this radio ad for him which was produced by the “Our Country Deserves Better Committee.”

Kathryn Jean Lopez is the Editor of National Review Online and today she writes of her endorsement for Doug Hoffman.

Hoffman is the Conservative candidate running for congress in upstate New York against a liberal Democrat and an even more liberal Republican.

Ms. Lopez writes:

“I do not live in New York’s 23rd congressional district, and I’ve never hiked the Adirondacks, which run through it. I’ve never met Doug Hoffman, who is running for Congress there, and hadn’t heard his name until fairly recently. But he’s my guy this November. Since I’m not a constituent, my support for a candidate is about integrity, as it is in a few other races I’m following closely.”

“Doug Hoffman is the Conservative-party candidate running for the seat vacated by John McHugh, a Republican who’s now secretary of the Army in the Obama administration. Hoffman, a CPA and newbie to electoral politics, worries about runaway spending and the bailout culture in Washington, both of which the Republican party has been a willing party to. His message: “Washington is stifling businesses and individuals with taxes. It is the ‘tea party’ people and the 9/12 people that are standing up and saying, ‘We’re fed up, and it’s time to do something about this.’ We need to take this country back from career politicians.”

“Her boosters, as well as her causes, are suspect. She is supported by the way-left Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas. She is supported by Big Labor and Big Education, as some of us are prone to call the lefty union politicos.”

Read the whole thing.

Doug Hoffman is the type of candidate people have been hoping for as they attended Tea Parties and town hall meetings in recent months. He’s a real guy who says what he believes and means what he says. He has no ties to big union money or rancid groups like ACORN.

Get to know Doug Hoffman!

Rasmussen Reports released a new poll today which shows a majority of Americans oppose ObamaCare:

“Now that the Senate Finance Committee has passed its version of health care reform, 42% of voters nationwide favor the health care reform plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. That’s down two points from a week ago and down four from the week before. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 54% are opposed to the plan. The numbers have been remarkably stable throughout the debate.”

The Washington Post claims today that it has a new poll which shows a majority of Americans support ObamaCare:

“A new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows that support for a government-run health-care plan to compete with private insurers has rebounded from its summertime lows and wins clear majority support from the public.”

Rasmussen Reports was proven to be the most accurate polling organization in the 2008 presidential election.

The Washington Post is actively campaigning for Democrats.

Which poll do you believe?

UPDATE: The Washington Post poll was skewed towards Democrats. Well, what a surprise.