mydd.com - 10/23/2008
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Today on Morning Joe , Chuck Todd said Barack Obama has a "small but significant lead" in Florida and that "Florida has really slipped away from John McCain," calling the situation "a head-scratcher." This is interesting to hear since it still looks like a tenuous lead to me (Pollster has Obama ...
article.nationalreview.com - 10/24/2008
blogs.tnr.com - 10/22/2008
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blogs.tnr.com —
At our election discussion last week at the
Sixth and I Synagogue, Frank asked if anyone thought Obama...
could lose barring some catastrophic external event. I happen to think Obama's chances of winning are upward of 80 ...
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How Obama Could Still Lose
realclearpolitics.com - 10/24/2008
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realclearpolitics.com —
WASHINGTON -- Contrarian that I am, I'm voting
for John McCain. I'm not talking about bucking the...
polls or the media consensus that it's over before it's over. I'm talking about bucking the rush of wet-fingered conservatives leaping to Barack Obama ...
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McCain for President
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Opening the Day: Economic Gloom Deepens, Palin's Expensive Wardrobe
Open Left - Front Page —
... where they cling to their 'guns and their faith', on Fox News. I'm sure the outrage-o-meter will begin any. Second. Now.
I'm on a podcast on Horse's Ass with David Goldstein. If you want to hear an hour of Stoller and co, go for it.
Lovely.
Here's a video warning about climate change in 1958 that is dead-on accurate. Wow.
McCain has no ground game. At all.
CEPR takes on IOUSA. Lots of letters, probably the most important item ...
Ground Game
Eschaton —
I'm not sure I ever really believed the tales of Rove&Dowd;'s awesome 2004 ground game, but they thought it was important enough to at least talk about whether or not it actually existed. But more to the point, if they'd really set up such an organization why would it just be abandoned? ...
Tinklenberg
Eschaton —
It seems that every election a couple of unlikely folk heroes emerge. They don't always win, but they somehow capture our hearts and imaginations. This year it is, of course, El Tinklenberg.
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(CNN) – Rudy Giuliani is the star of a new robocall from the McCain campaign and the Republican National Committee that seeks to portray Barack Obama as soft on crime.
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While most national surveys show Obama with a double-digit lead (or close to it), a new AP poll has Obama up just one point among likely voters, 44%-43%. Meanwhile, a Fox News poll had Obama up 49-40.
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