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Posted at 11:58 p.m. ET

I just returned from a talk at Hudson New York given by John Fund of The Wall Street Journal.  He is also the author of "Stealing Elections - How Voter Fraud Threatens our Democracy."  It's late, so let me just give you the bullet points, which I think you'll find extremely interesting:

1.  David Axelrod, Obama's chief strategist, is also the chief strategist for the Daley machine in Chicago.  Fund wonders what kind of real political change can come out of that relationship.

2.  ACORN, which is under investigation in a number of states, is in serious legal trouble and desperately needs an Obama victory for its own survival.  Fund suggested that an Obama attorney general would make investigations into ACORN disappear.

3.  Obama was one of the main lawyers defending the so-called Motor Voter law, allowing easy, some say sloppy voter registration.  Today, Obama is a chief beneficiary of the law he defended in court.

4.  ACORN and Obama, in Fund's words, are "marinated" in each other.  It is not a distant or vague relationship.

Now the fascinating part:

5.  Fund does not believe the Democrats will have a veto-proof majority in the Senate.

6.  Obama, in his primary campaigns, never got a percentage of the vote that exceeded his final poll number.  Now, caution, the polls will differ.  But Fund put it this way:  If Obama's final polls show him getting 51 or 52 percent of the vote, he'll probably win; if they show him at 50, it's iffy.  If Obama polls 49 percent or below in the final polls, as Fund put it, "game on."

Fund said he thinks it will be a very close race, and that we may not know the winner for days.  He also believes, as per his book, that voter fraud can play a very significant role in a close election.

Stimulating talk.  The book is very good.  The point about Obama's final poll numbers is remarkable.  Let us pray.

October 28, 2008.