First, let me put forward the recent results of council votes.

November 7

Council Winners

• First place with 2 2/3 votes votes! - >Joshuapundit - National Security Rears It’s Ugly Head
• Second place with 2 votes - The Colossus of Rhodey - The real worry about an Obama presidency


• Third place with 1 vote - The Glittering Eye - Why the Financial Fixes Aren’t Working


• Fourth place with 2/3 votes - (T*) - Third place with 1 vote - Bookworm Room - If ignorance is bliss, ’tis folly to be wise
• Fourth place with 2/3 votes - (T*) - The Razor - If Obama Wins… Part 3

Non-Council Winners

• First place with 3 2/3 votes votes! - Real Clear Politics/Cross Tabs Blog - Obama Victory the GOP’s Best Hope
• Second place with 1 1/3 votes - Mere Rhetoric - Israel: 70 Percent Of American Jews Ready To Say ‘We Didn’t Know’ When Obama Detonates US-Israel Alliance (Plus: They Most Definitely Know).


• Third place with 1 vote - (T*) - Daniel Flynn/City Journal - The Ghosts In Grant Park
• Third place with 1 vote - (T*) - Dean’s World - Choice

October 31

Winning Council Submissions

• First place with 2  votes votes! - Joshuapundit - A Spectator At The Orgy
• Second place with 1 1/3 votes - Hillbilly White Trash - The gap between the media’s version and the actual truth grows wider


• Third place with 1 vote - (T*) - Cheat-Seeking Missiles - Is a Barack Victory Predestined?
• Third place with 1 vote - (T*) - The Colossus of Rhodey - We’re tired of it already


• Fourth place with 2/3 votes - The Razor - The Good Daughter
• Fifth place with 1/3 votes - Soccer Dad - The campaign and israel: take 3029

Winning Non-Council Submissions

• First place with 2 votes votes! - Iowahawk - Balls and Urns
• Second place with 1 2/3 votes - Winds of Change - The Newspaper Crash of 2009… And How You Can Help


• Third place with 1 vote - American Thinker - Time for a Gut Check, America


• Fourth place with 2/3 votes - Doug Ross @ Journal - The Manifesto of the Silenced Majority
• Fourth place with 2/3 votes - Pajamas Media - Syria-Iraq: Bloody Border, Messy Politics


• Fourth place with 2/3 votes - Philly.com - Palin Deserves Our Respect


• Fifth place with 1/3 votes - The New York Review of Books - Hugo Chávez Versus Human Rights

T* - Denotes Tie

October 24

Winning Council Submissions

• First place with 2 1/3 votes votes! - Bookworm Room - Why Obama’s “share the wealth” argument should hurt him
• Second place with 1 2/3 votes - Soccer Dad - The Washington Post chooses hope ahead of substance


• Third place with 1 vote - (T*) - The Razor - If Obama Wins… Part 2


• Third place with 1 vote - (T*) - Cheat-Seeking Missiles - Media Bias #89 - The Audacity Of Inexperience
• Third place with 1 vote - (T*) - The Glittering Eye - Unforeseen Secondary Effects


• Fourth place with 2/3 votes - (T*) - The Colossus of Rhodey - Don’t know much about history? The media sure doesn’t


• Fourth place with 2/3 votes - (T*) - Rhymes With Right - Some Sense From The Pentagon

Winning Non-Council Submissions

• First place with 2 1/3 votes votes! - Hot Air - The Comprehensive Argument Against Barack Obama


• Second place with 1 1/3 votes - Daled Amos - o so far… Saturday, October 18, 2008 “In what kind of nation, do the media investigate critics more than candidates?”
• Third place with 1 vote - (T*) - Nolan Finley - America Should Follow The Little Red Hen


• Third place with 1 vote - (T*) - The Paragraph Farmer - An Open Letter To My Friend Art
• Third place with 1 vote - (T*) - Patterico’s Pontifications - Evidence of Obama-Ayers Tie Sent Down the Memory Hole . . . Almost!


• Fourth place with 2/3 votes - Gateway Pundit - Media Refuses to Release Video of Obama Toasting & Praising Close Friend Rashid Khalidi– A Former PLO Operative, Jew-Hater & Friend of Bill Ayers
• Fifth place with 1/3 votes - (T*) - American Thinker - Obama’s campaign built on lies


• Fifth place with 1/3 votes (T*) - NewsBusters - Enraged Leftwing Blogosphere Hurls Attacks Against Joe the Plumber

T* - Denotes Tie

Oh, and by the way -- the Watcher's Council has two new members Mere Rhetoric and The Provocateur. Be sure to drop by and check them out.