Won't matter, elections are already showing corruption in PA. See below:

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We continue to hear reports of broken machines. This tale was reported to the Daily News by a very patient voter:

"I just came from voting. Finally got my vote in at 49 ward, 07 division....after waiting for (the only) 2 voting machines to be repaired.

"I was able to cast my vote for Obama after waiting 1 and 1/2 hours. During that time at least 100 voters left without voting.....possibly not to return.

"I immediately called every News channel I could get through to. Persons who answered at the stations informed me that my ward was not the only one with broken machines and 'Paper ballots (as an alternative) without Obama's name on it. These provisional ballots did have Hiliary's name on them."

You're missing the big issue:

Does China deserve Permanent Trading status?

This is a country that is arguably just as bad as Iraq: It tortures dissidents, suppresses freedom of religion and free speech, and it is a huge polluter, which makes it more of a global threat than Iraq ever was.

Yet, do we sanction China? No, we reward it.

Makes no sense to me, but maybe a Hillary supporter can explain why Iraq = Bad, China = Good.

He's targeting the "low information" voters again. Uggh.

Remember, this would only be a negative flyer if Hillary sent it out. Because it came from Obama, it is nice and hopeful and addresses in a mature and thoughtful manner the issues.

Good for him.

This time around, HRC isn't getting away with dropping last minute fliers & commercials.

This time, he's (at minimum) minimizing her last minute tricks, with his own.

I can live with that.

You guys have to stop using the word "drop" like it's a Top 40 hit. Really. It sounds neither cool, and it's actually deceptive (I thought initially that it meant he's recalled the mailer before I remembered you guys are trying a little too hard to use slang in your headlines).

Wow. This is on Talking Points Memo saying that the advertisement is misleading? That means it's grossly inaccurate and should not have been sent out. TPM has been a surrogate of the Obama campaign and it's rare that anything that can be seen as critical has come from it. Obama is a hypocrite, and a liar.

The real problem is those damn voting machines again although it seems like we've been talking about this forever! why is that "the greatest country in the history of the world" can not come up with a working voting machine, why?

"So when the worker says that "the factory was shipped to China," this could be seen as technically accurate in the sense that the equipment was shipped there. Nonetheless, the implication of the mailer is that Corning jobs were shipped abroad -- and this, apparently, is not true. The link between Corning contributions and the plant closing also seems unfounded."

But the jobs apparently were "shipped" to China: Corning exiting the business, and selling the equipment use for CRTs to a Chinese company, which will then pick up where Corning left off, and presumably hire Chinese to do the same jobs.

I guess I missed the part where you explained how the mailer is misleading.

Because they slapped a different logo on the end product? A job is a job. And these jobs were in fact sent to China.

Did some digging into this and there are couple of points that need to be corrected:

1. The plant was a joint venture between Corning and Asahi Technology. It produced cathode ray tubes for traditional televisions (a dying technology).

3. They (Corning and Asahi) agreed to shutter the plant and divest the assets to Henan Anyang CPT Glass Bulb Group, Electronic Glass Co. Ltd, a state-owned company in China. Henan continues to manufacture glass tubes to date.

4. Corning has a joint venture with Samsung to produce flat planel cathode ray tubes, which are manufactured in Korea, China and other countries except the US.

In short, instead of retooling the plant in Pennsylvania to produce flat panel cathode ray tubes (which are manufactured in China and elsewhere), they shuttered it and sold the equipment to another cathode ray tube manufacturer based in China, which continues to produce those tubes.

Greg,
If you are going to take the time to fact check this mailer, could you please also take the time to get verification from more than one source about the facts surrounding the situation?

I'm not disputing anything you are reporting here, but it's completely unreasonable to expect a Corning PR contact to give an objective or accurate recount of the situation if the facts could reflect unfavorable on his employer.

Dan Collins' job is to protect the interests of Corning. If Corning could be hurt by their actions in this situation, he's not going to tell you the whole truth.

Greg, if you consider yourself a journalist, please hold yourself to the standards of that profession (especially considering it's Ehics Week.) Dan Collins is the very definition of "Conflict of Interest" and is not a reliable source on his own. He needs to be balanced or replaced with another viewpoint to make this a valid piece of reporting.

A glance at the SPJ's Code Of Ethics may be of use to you and your fellow Jounalists:

http://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp

it's completely unreasonable to expect a Corning PR contact to give an objective or accurate recount of the situation if the facts could reflect unfavorable on his employer.

Another good point, why I find this post weak.

It's just another example of Obama distorting the facts. If you want to see more, visit Hillary's website.

So, the problem is that Corning didn't ship the jobs anywhere. They just got rid of the jobs. And shipped the equipment to buyers in China

But then the Chinese company will make those CRTS and hire people to do the same jobs.

Think of jobs as a fungible commodity:

If your friend loans you $10 to buy a book, and then you spend it on beer, you can't claim that, "oh, I didn't spend your $10 on the beer, I spent a different $10."

Claiming those are "different jobs" now in China is a shell game.

Reality Check;

CRT TV sets are still in big demand in China and other Asian Countries.

If the China Trade agreement had required them to pay their workers a wage package, and adhere to environmental standards that would have leveled the playing field, the plant could have been kept in Pennsylvania, and the CRT Tubes could have been exported to Asia.

The reason why that did not happen is because people like Senator Clinton signed on to a China Trade agreement that allows them to manufacture products at near slave wages standards. That is why the Plant was shipped to China, because Corning could not afford to continue to pay American workers a living wage, and compete with the slave wage standards of China that Senator Hillary Clinton signed off on.

Anyone who argues that "China = Iraq" has just lost all credibility. China is nothing like Iraq, it's a complex and highly dynamic society 4 times the size of the US; China is still largely poor, but working hard to raise its standard of living. While China may not have much political freedom right now, the average Chinese has far more economic and personal freedoms than the average Iraqi today. You would be delusional to think otherwise.

Reality Check;

CRT TV sets are still in big demand in China and other Asian Countries.

If the China Trade agreement had required them to pay their workers a wage package, and adhere to environmental standards that would have leveled the playing field, the plant could have been kept in Pennsylvania, and the CRT Tubes could have been exported to Asia.

The reason why that did not happen is because people like Senator Clinton signed on to a China Trade agreement that allows them to manufacture products at near slave wages standards. That is why the Plant was shipped to China, because Corning could not afford to continue to pay American workers a living wage, and compete with the slave wage standards of China that Senator Hillary Clinton signed off on