One week to go: Don't get cocky or over-confident
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — A message from the Obama campaign to all Obama supporters: This is it. One more week. Want to help out? If you can travel, check out "Drive for Change." You can also help closer to home by making calls from home. The Democrats are pulling out every stop. The DNC took out a $10 million line of credit to help Senate and House candidates. This is shaping up to be a great year, but only if we all do everything we can until every poll closes. ...

Obama Warns: Don't Get Complacent
Politics Daily — Filed under: Democrats, Barack Obama, 2008 President, Humor, Viral VideoMy laugh of the day, courtesy the Obama campaign: H/T: Andrew Sullivan.   Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments

Voter Beware: The Bradley Effect
The Latest on Air America — A few Sundays ago my eldest daughter and I joined a carpool to spend the day in the 66th Ward, a district of north Philadelphia. We went there to volunteer for the Democratic Party, which wanted us to go door-to-door in a working-class neighborhood that is both a Democrat stronghold and thoroughly undecided. It was a pro-Clinton area turned inward and confused because Obama presented certain social obstacles, namely race fear. Our job: remove that sense of bewilderment and refocus folks on the issues. Canvassing in a swing state is fantastic. The local Democratic Party headquarters knew the area well, and we encountered exactly what we were ...

Obama Camp Tries Not to Get Cocky
Weekly Standard Blog — Someone should send this to the candidate himself, who is talking about "righteous winds," planning his Election Night bash, and unveiling an unorthodox new plan to deal with an economic downturn by asking roughly 50 percent of the nation not to work for a day. That'll do wonders for productivity. Look at that smile on Maverick's face as he cruises to victory. Really warms your heart.

PSA
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Obama Supporters Wary Of Premature Cockiness?
The LLama Butchers — Obama Supporters Wary Of Premature Cockiness? Filched from Llama crush Mary Katherine Ham at The Weekly Standard Blog : Oh, I would love it so. Posted by Gary at October 28, 2008 06:11 PM | TrackBack

Obama campaign warns of overconfidence
Ben Smith's Blog — In a stern web video. I think that's Tommy Vietor on the bike.

Morning Roundup: Around the Web with Radical Rabbit
The Latest on Air America — Lisa Derrick at Firedoglake's Campaign Silo wants you to visit Prayforsarahpalin.com and add a prayer. It had to happen: Credit Cards are the newest threat to our economy. Thing is, New York Times, they've always been the enemy. Remember that whole "fiction of private property" thing? The Huffington Post's Seth Colter Walls discovers a link between McCain and a Palestinian his campaign tried to pin on Obama. The Financial Times hits the peak oil button, wants you to know we're running out. Alternet's Maria Louisa Tucker predicts your vote based on personality traits. One "trait" for ...

You Just A Wee Bit Overconfident
Firedoglake — I remember two things really clearly from four years ago. The first is when I saw the exits that showed Kerry winning Pennsylvania by 20 points. The second is when I saw George Bush the next morning saying that he had a mandate to govern. Clearly, the Obama campaign remembers the same thing, because it just put together this video. ...

Tonight on the Tube
The Latest on Air America — 8:00 Barack Obama's half-hour TV special airs tonight, 8 eastern, on CBS, Fox, NBC, MSNBC, Univision, and BET. (ABC decided to air "Pushing Daisies" instead. Harumph!) Unclear what the show will be like, but we're hoping it's something with a lil' more flair than our man at a desk with some flags behind him, talking for 30 minutes. The Obama campaign bought the airtime weeks ago, when I guess it seemed more pressing. As his lead over McCain increases, I'm hoping he can have some fun with it. (Disclaimer: this is not to say you shouldn't vote ...

Hey, Fat Lady, Start Warming Up
Oliver Willis — John McCain is running robocalls… in Arizona. I’m not, repeat, not declaring victory. But come on. ...

No celebrating yet. Leave everything on the road.
BlueOregon — A few weeks ago, at his blog Daily Kos, Markos told all of us to go all out in the push to victory. Don't allow yourself to have any regrets in the aftermath: One of my favorite cyclists likes to say, "Leave everything on the road", meaning that when he crosses the finish line, he will have burned every last ounce of energy in his body. If he falls short? No regrets because he gave it his all, every last bit of it. We can't have regrets on Election Night, thinking that some Democrats came up short because we failed to leave everything on the road. We can't have a Jim Martin or a Bob Lord or a Darcy Burner or whoever ...

Obama Stumbles Across the Finish Line
JammieWearingFool — An ad so stupid, it can only come from an Obamaton . Last time I saw Obama on a bicycle, he wasn't moving too fast. [image] Although now apparently he's up for the kiddie rides. [image] Labels: Barack Obama

Is Team Obama Worried McCain Will Pull It Out?
The Corner on National Review Online — Wednesday, October 29, 2008 [image] Is Team Obama Worried McCain Will Pull It Out? [ Kathryn Jean Lopez ] Check this out: 10/29 09:26 PM

Obama ad: No premature celebrating
The Swamp — by Frank James Sen. Barack Obama has a humorous ad that warns his supporters against complacency and believing the election is over just because the polls and so many pundits are pointing to an Obama victory next week.

With the White House won, Barack Obama now must pick a team
Top of the Ticket — Now that the presidential election business has been pretty much settled in much of the media and Barack Obama has obviously won, we can get down to the next political game at hand: guessing who's going to make up his administration's team. First, White House Chief of Staff. How about Rep. Rahm Emanuel? Is he being courted to run the big house for the big man? Or is that story just part of a big (not to mention premature) D.C. guessing game? Aides and advisors to Obama and Emanuel -- fellow Democratic members of Congress from Illinois -- are trying hard to tamp down ...

FMB (Penultimate Edition)
Discourse.net — Vote Early. Friday Political Animal Still waiting (for Palin’s medical records) TPM, You Need to Know Flashback: McCain’s Sleaze-o-rama The Buzz, Crowley: Obama will win Florida Forbes.com, Harvard Kennedy School - David M. Cutler and J. Bradford DeLong commentary: Obama Can Cure Health Care’s Ills Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Sarah Palin speaks on the First Amendment Political Animal, As nasty as she wants to be Bruce ...

Friday McBush/McSame Bashing (Penultimate Edition)
Discourse.net — Vote Early. Friday Political Animal Still waiting (for Palin’s medical records) TPM, You Need to Know Flashback: McCain’s Sleaze-o-rama The Buzz, Crowley: Obama will win Florida Forbes.com, Harvard Kennedy School - David M. Cutler and J. Bradford DeLong commentary: Obama Can Cure Health Care’s Ills Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Sarah Palin speaks on the First Amendment Political Animal, As nasty as she wants to be Bruce ...

How to Make Web Ads Effective
The Moderate Voice — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2U-lP-SOSQ I remember a time when we liked commercials. The one above had me buying 7-up even though I don’t like 7-up. As I kid I’d run to the TV and laugh out loud when one of the series of Alka Seltzer commercials featuring a man and his stomach came ...