fivethirtyeight.com - 10/24/2008
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This is not the time when John McCain can afford a bad polling day. And yet he's had perhaps his worst one of the year. The national trackers were essentially a push -- three moved toward Obama, two toward McCain, two were flat -- but the action today is at the state level. And boy, there is a ...
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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
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com - 10/23/2008
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In another sign that John McCain is on
the defensive as time runs out, the McCain campaign...
is shifting its ad money out of blue tossup states and into red tossups and even traditionally red states, an analysis today by ad maven Evan Tracey finds. ...
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McCain Shifting His Ad Spending From Kerry States To ...
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Today's Polls, 10/23: McCain on Life Support
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... to the deep South -- where new polling in Arkansas, Texas, and Louisiana suggests that those states have yet to become competitive. As a result of all of this, there is now no perceptible rebound for John McCain; in fact, the race may still be trending toward Obama, although the safer assumption is that it's flat. Meanwhile, Obama's electoral position appears as strong as ever. John McCain's chances of winning the election have dwindled to 3.7%, down from 6.5% yesterday. Read more: http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/10/todays-polls-102... The Joe-the-plummer campaign seems to ...
Early Morning Swim
Firedoglake —
... is black, too?
And so is William Weld.
Even the Anchor Baby doubts the McSame "hate crime."
Confronted with her $150K wardrobe, Palin claims she's "frugal."
And guarantees a win in PA. (Yes, PA.)
Palin's cronyism: jobs for donors.
I thought Obama had a "Jewish problem."
Obama up 7 in Florida.
Headline to love: "McCain on life support."
Another exiting day on Wall Street!
Headline to ...
State Level Polling
PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts —
... certainly don’t look good for McCain, the latest batch of state-level numbers is even worse. Nate Silver posted a plethora of such polls yesterday. ...
End of Days, the Prequel
The Mahablog —
The Asian and European markets are tanking this morning. It’s shaping up to be a fun day on Wall Street.
Now, for the good news — Nate Silver says the McCain campaign is on life support. In “Blame game: GOP forms circular firing squad,” Jonathan Martin and Mike Allen and John F. Harris of The Politico document the unraveling of the GOP political machine. There will be some juicy books written about the McCain campaign when this is over, I bet. The GOP also expects to be routed in the House.
Headline in ...
Has McCain Hastened The Demise Of The “Reagan Coalition?”
Firedoglake —
... Is this the year the majority of Americans wises up and realizes that they never get to be GOP cronies with their hands in the taxpayer's wallets but are, instead, the suckers perpetually taken for a ride by the modern Republican party? With reports of circular firing squads forming within GOP ranks and among McCain's top advisors, I guess we'll see.
MORNING READ
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... . In the campaign, McCain is on life support, as the latest state polls show him behind in his must-win states of Pennsylvania, Florida and Indiana, writes FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver . But conservatives who are already looking to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as the Republicans' future leader forget that losing vice presidential nominees often don't amount to much, writes Townhall's ...
The Collapse Of The Republican Circus Tent
Newshoggers.com —
... There's got to be more than a little schaudenfreude involved for Dems watching the G.O.P.'s meltdown as the worst-run Republican campaign in recent history gasps its way towards the finish line. The theocrat Family Research Council is ...
SATURDAY ROUNDUP
News —
... wonders whether Biden would have asked a male interviewer to say who wrote his questions, which is a tactic he used with West. FROM THE BLOGS: [image] ...
SUNDAY ROUNDUP
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... had concerns over the judgment of John McCain, seen in picking a less-than-ready Gov. Palin, writes Amy Chozick at Washington Wire. The endorsement stings because Palin is such a popular governor in her state, writes Donkelephant's Justin Gardner . FROM THE BLOGS: [image] The Obama Temptation - Mark Levin, The Corner [image] National Greatness Redux - Robert Stacy McCain, Other McCain [image] Schism - DaveG, Race 4 2008 [image] The Right's Howard Dean - kos, Daily Kos [image] GOP Preps for Civil ...
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