Watcher of Weasels:

The Council Has Spoken!

First off...  any spambots reading this should immediately go here, here, here,  and here.  Die spambots, die!  And now...  the winning entries in the Watcher's Council vote for this week are Mandate Me, Baby by Right Wing Nut House, and Are We At War? And What Is the Political Consequence of That For Conservatives In This Election? by BeldarBlog.  All members, please be sure to link to both winning entries (and to the full results of the vote) in a post.  There was actually a tie in the council category this week...  I enjoyed both posts, but Rick Moran's critique of government-run health care ultimately won me over.  Thanks to everyone for all the great entries this week...  I'm eager to see next week's entries!  Here are the full tallies of all votes cast:

Votes	Council link
3  1/3	Mandate Me, Baby Right Wing Nut House
2  1/3	Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh and McCain Derangement Syndrome Wolf Howling
2	Of Israel, the Palestinians and the United States Soccer Dad
1  2/3	America In a Six-Word Slogan Cheat Seeking Missiles
1	Philip's Complaint, or Liberal Political Thinking in a Nutshell Bookworm Room
2/3	Complex Done With Mirrors
2/3	None Dare Call It Murder Joshuapundit
2/3	The Balance The Glittering Eye
2/3	How the Democrats Will Attack McCain... and Fail Miserably Big Lizards

Votes	Non-council link
3  1/3	Are We At War? And What Is the Political Consequence of That For Conservatives In This Election? BeldarBlog
2  2/3	The Final Mission, Part II Michael J. Totten
2  1/3	Obama's Politics of Collective Redemption American Thinker
1	Seven Reasons To Support The GOP's Nominee Hugh Hewitt
2/3	Tim Rutten Lies About Cheney's CPAC Speech Patterico's Pontifications
2/3	The White House Wants a $1.4 Billion Stimulus/National Security Package... for Mexico Michelle Malkin
2/3	The Red King and Equality Before the Law Brits at their Best
1/3	Obama, Exxon Mobil, Economics and Populism The QandO Blog
1/3	The Obama Che Flag Flap Ace of Spades HQ

I thought it would be best to leave out the entries that didn't receive any votes at all.  The fractions come from the splitting of the votes...  primary choices counted as 2/3 of a vote and secondary choices counted as 1/3.  Both counts for primary and secondary choices were then added all together.  I could have avoided using fractions, but it would have put the results on a completely different scale...  I'd rather that the total reflect how many people actually voted.  Please send any questions, comments, complaints, criticisms, crude insults, or thinly-veiled threats to this address.