The Beginning of The End. The Start of a New Dream.

Closing remarks from scrutin
This is the beginning of the end. The beginning of the end of two wars in the Middle East, to be sure, but more importantly it is the beginning of the end of a war within this country. 44 years ago The United States united to support the Civil Rights Act. Today [...]

Mandate

President Obama!!!!!!!!!!!

What To Look For Tonight

Newsweek has an hour-by-hour look at the election by none other than Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight fame. It is everything that the election fetishist could hope for.

Web Tools For The Election Season

Lifehacker has a good writeup on some good tools to help you get through the election season.
It’s hard these days to imagine how elections happened before the web grew to popularity. With all the instant-access news, video, data, and social networking available in a few seconds’ time, election season is a prime time to dig [...]

The Real Voter Fraud

With all of the talk about Acorn and voter fraud, it seems the real issue of voter fraud is being missed. One study showed that during the period between 2002 and 2005 there were only 24 cases of voter fraud. This just distracts from the issue of voter suppression. 
We previously mentioned the GOP’s attempts to [...]

Yes We Can

Illinois: Obama 61, McCain 32
Indiana: Obama 51, McCain 41
Iowa: Obama 52, McCain 39
Ohio: Obama 53, McCain 41
Michigan: Obama 58, McCain 36
Minnesota: Obama 57, McCain 38
Pennsylvania: Obama 52, McCain 41
Wisconsin: Obama 53, McCain 40
Polls co-directed by University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientists Charles Franklin and Ken Goldstein with the cooperation of colleagues from participating Big Ten universities. [...]

The Powell Endorsement

Watch the show here.
This is huge. I think this story is going to dominate the press for the next 2-3 days. What does that mean? No news coverage for McCain.
Powell’s performance on Meet The Press was fantastic. He presented a clear, logical, measured argument for Obama. He was kind to McCain – he cited his [...]

Enough With The Acorn Stuff Already

To sum up what happened. Acorn hired about 13,000 people to help register votes. They were able to register about 1.3 million people. 1%-2% of the people they hired were scammers who filled out the forms with bogus names rather than actually doing the work. These people were fired.
Acorn Submitted these registrations because, by law, [...]

“Shares My Values”

That same CBS poll notes:
Before the debate, fifty-four percent thought Obama shared their values. That percentage rose to sixty-four percent after the debate. For McCain, fifty-two percent thought he shared their values before the debate, and fifty-five percent thought so afterwards.

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UPDATE (aka the morning after):
McCain fought for his life. Fought. He had some pretty good jabs, especially early on. And he certainly put Obama on the offensive more than Obama put McCain on the offensive.
But looking at the polling, it appears that people are simply relating more to Barack Obama. Which is astounding if you [...]

It’s not 2004 anymore

The Atlantic’s Mark Ambinder has a post on the AFL-CIO mailing targeting 80,000 swing voters who own guns in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

The BOOMS! Just Keep Getting Bigger

From NY Times/CBS News, among likely voters:

Obama 53, McCain 39
In early October: Obama 48, McCain 45.
Dates conducted: Oct. 10-13. Error margin: 3 points.
And this has got to be killing the GOP:
What are the candidates spending more time doing?
Explaining what he would do:
Now: Obama 63, McCain 31
Sept. 25: Obama 56, McCain 38

Attacking the other candidate:
Now: McCain [...]

“Rope a Dope”

Andrew Sullivan discusses why “Barack Obama’s strategy of calm is provoking his rival into fatal errors.”
McCain never seemed to learn from the Clintons’ misjudgment of their rival. A key element of Obama’s strategy is classic rope-a-dope. He gets his opponents to splutter with irritation as “that one”, as McCain contemptuously described Obama in last Tuesday’s [...]

Colorado for Obama

I lived in Colorado for 5 years. I was there for the 2000 election, and watched the metropolitan part of the state (the Denver/Boulder corridor) come out for Gore and Nader. Boulder felt like the epi-center of the Green Party. Although I now fight my gut to blame Nader for this whole mess because of [...]

It’s Not Working

Obama breaks 50 in the National Polls.