October 10, 2008 - From the blog State of the Union, a telling comparison of the last two weeks of the performance of John McCain's campaign vs. the S & P 500...
October 10, 2008 - John McCain is having a rough week. Both the Hispanics and the working class whites are breaking up with him. Th...
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October 10, 2008 - Undecided Voters. They're as much a part of the Presidential election cycle as debates, fundraisers, and pregnancy cover-up rumors. Every four years, they're taken out of cold storage to help give Matt Lauer a break from the uncomfortable ad libs of Al Roker.
But who are these...
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October 11, 2008 - Some stories just have one side. Like the McCain campaign's attempts to smear Barack Obama as a terrorist sympathizer, a man of questionable character. Salon's Glenn Greenwald called out the Washington Post for acting like both campaigns are behaving equally irresponsibly:
Balz's articl...
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October 10, 2008 - You'd think that the two remaining presidential division heavyweights squaring off on national TV would produce a modicum of action. You know, a knockdown, busted nose; maybe a rabbit punch to the back of the head or a chunk of an ear spit through the ropes into Tom Brokaw...
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October 9, 2008 - In a surprising turn of events, the McCain campaign is trying to link Obama to terrorism. Specifically, Governor Palin and Senator McCain accuse Obama of having ties to a leftist hippie gang known as the "Weathermen." Hippie terrorism's closest ties to Islamic terrorism were buying weed from Afghani...
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October 9, 2008 - Sort of. He told Charlie Gibson he was surprised that, regarding the Ayers attacks, McCain didn't "say it to my face" at the debate...
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October 10, 2008 - Things are getting really effing scary at McCain-Palin rallies these days. You have people shouting demands for violence, you have MC's who can't deliver an intro without saying the word "Hussein," and you have a whole bunch of folks milling around parking lots and shouting the word...
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October 9, 2008 - Ever wonder what kind of people would yell out 'terrorist' or 'kill him' at a McCain/Palin rally? Start with this lady...
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October 9, 2008 - I had to miss the big non-debate the other night because my son broke his arm at football practice. Some kids will do anything for their parents! I think there are many things that we Right Wing Conspirators and you Enlightened Progressives disagree on but can we get some...
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October 9, 2008 - Democratic strategists are starting to feel safe enough to use the word "landslide." But how the hell can they tell? There are so many different electoral projection sites with fancy maps, we don't know who to trust. You've got...
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October 8, 2008 - Earlier this week I ran an interview with Brook Lundy, co-founder of the hilarious online greeting card site Someecards.com and the just-launched voter...
October 8, 2008 - McCain: Nice to be with Senator Obama at a town hall meeting...[incredibly creepy laugh]
Hype Man: OH SHIT, SON! He just brought it back. He was all "Obama ain't got no nuts. You seen my nuts? These nuts is wild big. You could make a buncha brownies with...