10:08 PM EST - The AP has announced Governor Haley Barbour as the winner in his bid for reelection in Mississippi.  The entire Republican slate of statewide offices is winning handily, with the exception of Attorney General where incumbent Democrat Jim Hood is cruising to reelection.

9:47 PM EST - Pittsburgh blew it like always. With 76% of precincts reporting, Ravenstahl leads 64% to 34%. We can call that one. It’s all over.

9:39 PM EST - Indianapolis, with 82% of precincts reporting, Republican Ballard is leading Democrat Incumbent Mayor Peterson 50% to 47%. That is going to be a nail biter.

9:25 PM EST - Pittsburgh, with 55% of precincts reporting, Ravenstahl is leading DeSantis 63% - 35%. DeSantis is not going to win.

9:23 PM EST - In Mississippi, Governor Haley Barbour is leading his Democrat challenger 62% - 38%

9:15 PM EST - I just heard on the radio that the Associated Press has declared Republican Mayor Pat McCrory the victor in his reelection to his seventh term as Charlotte’s mayor.

8:58 PM EST - In Pittsburgh, Ravenstahl has now widened his lead to 61% with DeSantis at 36%.

8:42 PM EST - In Pittsburgh, Democrat Mayor Luke Ravenstahl is leading Republican challenger Mark DeSantis 53% to 44%

8:41 PM EST - In Indianapolis with 63% of the vote in, Republican mayoral challenger Greg Ballard is beating incumbent Democrat Mayor Bart Peterson 53% to 47%. That’s a welcome surprise.

8:20 PM EST - In Charlotte, Republican Pat McCrory is pummeling Democrat Beverly Earle in the Mayoral race. It appears that McCrory is going to successfully win a 7th term as Charlotte mayor. Did you hear that Pittsburgh?? We have a REPUBLICAN MAYOR IN CHARLOTTE!

8:15 PM EST - In Kentucky, WHAS 11 News has already declared Democrat Steve Beshear as the winner of the gubernatorial race, which was predictable. Ernie Fletchner was very unpopular and if the GOP had ousted him in the primary we may have been able to hold it. The Louisiana victory will cancel this out.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, aided by an extraordinary outpouring of Internet support Monday, hauled in more than $4.2 million in nearly 24 hours. Paul, the Texas congressman with a libertarian tilt and an out-of-Iraq pitch, entered heady fundraising territory with a surge of Web-based giving tied to the commemoration of Guy Fawkes Day.

Fawkes was a British mercenary who failed in his attempt to kill King James I on Nov. 5, 1605. He also was the model for the protagonist in the movie “V for Vendetta.” Paul backers motivated donors on the Internet with mashed-up clips of the film on the online video site YouTube as well as the Guy Fawkes Day refrain: “Remember, remember the 5th of November.”

Paul’s total deposed Mitt Romney as the single-day fundraising record holder in the Republican presidential field. When it comes to sums amassed in one day, Paul now ranks only behind Democrats Hillary Rodham Clinton, who raised nearly $6.2 million on June 30, and Barack Obama.

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That is some serious cash for someone who “conservatives” say is just a fringe case.

Well here is a shocker, there IS a liberal media bias according to a recent study done by Harvard.

Just like so many reports before it, a joint survey by the Project for Excellence in Journalism and Harvard’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy — hardly a bastion of conservative orthodoxy — found that in covering the current presidential race, the media are sympathetic to Democrats and hostile to Republicans.

Democrats are not only favored in the tone of the coverage. They get more coverage period. This is particularly evident on morning news shows, which “produced almost twice as many stories (51% to 27%) focused on Democratic candidates than on Republicans.”

Of all media outlets newspapers were the worst.

The most flagrant bias, however, was found in newspapers. In reviewing front-page coverage in 11 newspapers, the study found the tone positive in nearly six times as many stories about Democrats as it was negative.

Breaking it down by candidates, the survey found that Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were the favorites. “Obama’s front page coverage was 70% positive and 9% negative, and Clinton’s was similarly 61% positive and 13% negative.”

In stories about Republicans, on the other hand, the tone was positive in only a quarter of the stories; in four in 10 it was negative.

But, but Republicans have cable news…

The gap between Democrats and Republicans narrows on cable TV, but it’s there nonetheless. Stories about Democrats were positive in more than a third of the cases, while Republicans were portrayed favorably in fewer than 29%. Republican led in unfriendly stories 30.4% to 25.5%.

CNN was the most hostile toward Republicans, MSNBC, surprisingly, the most positive. MSNBC was also the most favorable toward Democrats (47.2%), Fox (36.8%) the most critical.

And what about talk radio?

Even talk radio, generally considered a bastion of conservatism, has been relatively rough on the GOP. On conservative shows, Obama got more favorable treatment (27.8%) than Rudy Giuliani (25%). Sen. John McCain got a 50% favorability rating while Mitt Romney led the three GOP candidates with 66.7%.

Conservatives know it is always a stacked deck going into an election year. Acting like Democrats only garners temporary media favor. In the long run conservatism can only win on the issues and avoiding the “game” of politics as the article puts it. Senator Fred Thompson is the only candidate taking this path.