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The Friday Political Thread: Write It Backwards on Your Face
Hit & Run — ... John McCain is losing the western states. (Reagan swept them twice.) - W. James Antle III throws a fit in Sam's Club. - Will Wilkinson breaks a fly bottle over Jacob Weisberg's head. It leaves a mark shaped like an "L"! - Greg Sargent has the ugliest scoop of the week. (If, as seems unlikely, McCain loses Pennsylvania in a squeaker because he underperforms in Pittsburgh, will Ashley Todd become the Steve Bartman of politics?) - Gerard Baker predicts a wave of Palintology to come after the vote. This week's Politics 'n' Prog is ...

The Potential Backlash that Democrats Should Fear
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash — Gerard Baker, the US editor of The (London) Times, had it about right yesterday when he likened the Republican Party to the comically fractured, ideological donnybrook of Stanley Kubrick's war room in "Dr. Strangelove."Baker's was one of many such pieces of late, and it's no exaggeration to say that I read more this week on the GOP's unraveling and infighting than on the presidential race, now but 10 days away. And my reading selections weren't entirely by discriminating design; that brand of coverage just happened to dominate the political press because the GOP really is ...

How Badly Will McCain's Collapse Hurt Down Ballot Republicans?
DownWithTyranny! — ... over her inside the campaign. The lobbyist who run the Double Talk Express seem to have decided that she will be the star of the post mortem: "Four Republicans close to Palin said she has decided increasingly to disregard the advice of the former Bush aides tasked to handle her, creating occasionally tense situations as she travels the country with them. Those Palin supporters, inside the campaign and out, said Palin blames her handlers for a botched rollout and a tarnished public image-- even as others in McCain's camp blame the pick of the relatively inexperienced Alaska ...