If you're interested in a typically muddle-headed defense of the Arminian notion of biblical election, check out the last few minutes of Hank Hanegraaff's "Bible Answer Man" broadcast from yesterday (3/27). In particular, his treatment of Romans 9 (like most Arminian commentators) is reminiscent of of a bullfighter's flourish while waving past the bull.

For extra credit, listen to his invocation of the Old Testament context of the potter and clay language (he cites Jeremiah 18 and I think Isaiah 25 & 49) and then actually look up those passages and try to figure out how in the world they are supposed to support his position that election is based on God's foreknowledge of who will have faith. Notably, he didn't cite Isaiah 64, which also uses the potter analogy, and says:

No one calls on your name or strives to lay hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us and made us waste away because of our sins. Yet, O LORD , you are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.

To Hank's credit, the written materials of his ministry have been much more even-handed in explaining the doctrine of election. The Christian Research Journal even published a full length debate between James White and some Arminian guy on the topic without taking sides. But lamentably Hanegraaff is not nearly so balanced on his radio program.