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Daily Show explains swing vote
The Swamp — by James Oliphant As we discussed below, everyone's obsessed with swing voters. The Daily Show has another take on this mysterious demographic. (And sorry, Cubs fans. I grieve. Really.)

The Daily Show Mocks Cubs Fans (WATCH)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — The Daily Show delivered a stinging sendup of Cubs fans Tuesday night. In a segment on the disproportionate impact of "Stupid Voters" on the presidential election, John Oliver included Cubs fans among the group, alongside "People Who Lose Arguments to Babies," "Tiger Petters," and the "Voluntarily Lobotomized." Cubs fans, Oliver said, "had 100 years to figure out that what they want will never happen and yet they still yearn for it." Jon Stewart: "That is stupid." Oliver: "Yes, very stupid." Stewart: "Because the Cubs will never win." Oliver: "That's right, Jon. The Chicago Cubs will ...

Crucial swing voters for McCain and Obama explained, sort of
Top of the Ticket — As everyone who's ever followed presidential politics knows, this is about the time of each autumnal general election campaign when the media, bored with the running horserace story, starts looking for obscure nooks and crannies to explore. One of the all-time favorites is the "swing voters," those unidentified people who are presumably uncommitted but can allegedly swing the election one way or the other by their late decisionmaking. The beauty for media people of talking about these faceless swing voters is that once everyone who's going to vote actually votes, there are by definition no more swing voters. So who can ...

10/13 Daily Kos R2K Tracking Poll: Obama 52 , McCain 40 (and ABC/WaPo is 53-43)
Daily Kos — Today's Daily Kos Research 2000 tracking poll has Obama up over McCain  . All trackers are data from three days prior to posting, with the R2K numbers from today (yesterday's numbers in parentheses) and the other trackers from yesterday (previous day's data). LV=likely voter, RV=registered voter.                  Obama      McCain    MoE +/-   RV/LV Today Research 2000:  52 (53)    40 (40)    3         LV Reuters/Zogby:  48 (49)    44 (43)   ...

Sign Of The Times
Daily Kos — Our readers point us to various and sundry web graffiti. From 236.com, a list of the seven wonkiest things you'd never thought you'd say: 1. "That reminds me of something I read on Daily Kos..." Three months ago Daily Kos was a site that seemed to be designed for an alien race. You couldn't understand which part was the real site and what was just some dude's "Diary," and you wondered whether you really had any right to be reading another guy's diary anyway. These days, you still can't quite figure the site out. You just know you belong there. 4. "Because Nate Silver said ...