McCain Refuses To Acknowledge Success of Obama
Surge

post from Edgeing on 27 October 2008 03:55:00 PM. © Edgeing

With less than one week to go and polls showing Barack Obama with an insurmountable lead, Senator John McCain still refuses to acknowledge the success of the Obama surge. McCain opposed the Obama surge from the beginning and confidently predicted that it would fail. But now that it is clear that the surge has succeeded, and brought victory within sight, Senator McCain can?t quite bring himself to admit his own failure in judgment.

Read The Full Article:
http://edgeing.blogspot.com/2008/10/mccain-refuses-to-acknowledge-success.html

Add to del.icio.us

Digg this

Post to Furl

Add to reddit

Add to myYahoo!

KERRY VS. MCCAIN.

post from Ezra Klein on 27 October 2008 03:55:00 PM. © Ezra Klein

Kevin Drum asks:In 2004, John Kerry lost the popular vote by a couple of percentage points and the electoral vote by 120,000 votes in Ohio. Now, suppose Kerry were running this year and therefore had the following three advantages over his previous self:[...]

Read The Full Article:
http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/ezraklein_archive?month=10&year=2008&base_name
=post_10

Digg this

Tavis Smiley: ‘I don’t get a sense
that Palin understands anything about me, anything about people of color.’

post from Think Progress on 27 October 2008 03:53:00 PM. © Think Progress

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal this weekend, PBS’s Tavis Smiley ripped the media and Gov. Sarah Palin for ignoring issues of diversity and race. “Sarah Palin has not been asked anything about diversity and inclusion,” he said. “If you’re going to be a heart beat away from the presidency, it’s important if you’re from Alaska, that we understand what diversity means to you”:

This is the most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever. And no one should get to this White House in this America without us having an understand on where they stand with regard to those kinds of issues. … She’s been asked nothing of the sort. I just don’t get a sense that Sarah Palin understands anything about me, anything about people of color.

Watch it:

video details and more

Read The Full Article:
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/27/tavis-smiley-palin/

Digg this

AFTERNOON INTERLUDE.

post from Ezra Klein on 27 October 2008 03:51:00 PM. © Ezra Klein

A Shakespearian reading of the dialogue in celebrity pornos. The visuals are safe for work. The audio, not so much. Wear headphones.Via Rhubarb Pie.[...]

Read The Full Article:
http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/ezraklein_archive?month=10&year=2008&base_name
=afternoon_interlude_42

Digg this

Possible Verdict in Ted Stevens Trial

post from TPMMuckraker on 27 October 2008 03:49:00 PM. © TPMMuckraker

The AP is reporting the possibility of a verdict this afternoon in the trial of Sen. Ted Stevens.

From the AP:

Jurors in Sen. Ted Stevens' corruption trial passed a note with "a potential verdict" to a federal judge Monday, a courthouse spokesman said.
The jury has been beset by problems since deliberations began Wednesday. Courthouse spokesman Sheldon Snook said the panel sent a note Monday. Attorneys for both sides were called back to court Monday for a reading of the note.
The ambiguity of the note's description, though, apparently leaves open the possibility that jurors have been unable to reach a unanimous verdict. If so, the judge likely would send them back to continue deliberating.

Read The Full Article:
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TPMmuckraker/~3/6nGrAFp7eLE/possible_verdict_in_te
d_steven.php

Digg this

Jesse Jackson Jr wants Obamas Senate Seat

post from Let's Talk Honestly on 27 October 2008 03:41:32 PM. © Let's Talk Honestly

Illinois political insiders say Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., who defended Barack Obama after his father famously threatened to castrate him, is the favorite to replace the Democratic nominee in the Senate.But Jackson Jr.?s path is by no means assured. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) also wants to replace Sen. Obama (Ill.) in the upper chamber if [...]

Read The Full Article:
http://glciii.wordpress.com/2008/10/27/jesse-jackson-jr-wants-obamas-senate-seat/

Digg this

YOUR SENATE IN CHARTS: DONKEYS RISING.

post from Ezra Klein on 27 October 2008 03:41:00 PM. © Ezra Klein

Almost three weeks ago, I noted that Democrats were inching ever closer to 60 seats in the Senate. Since then, the eight likely pick-ups have solidified (save for in New Hampshire, where Jeanne Shaheen still leads, but Sununu has closed the gap[...]

Read The Full Article:
http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/ezraklein_archive?month=10&year=2008&base_name
=your_senate_in_charts_donkeys

Digg this

Obama Camp: Indiana Sec of State Part of GOP
"Fear Campaign" On Voting

post from TPMMuckraker on 27 October 2008 03:41:00 PM. © TPMMuckraker

Last week, Indiana's Republican Secretary of State, Todd Rokita, sent a letter to federal, state and local authorities asking for a criminal investigation into over 1400 suspicious voter registration forms submitted by ACORN in Lake County, a key Democratic stronghold.

Now, the Obama camp has responded. The Times of Northwest Indiana reports that in a conference call with reporters this afternoon, Bob Bauer, the campaign's top election lawyer, said: "We have seen an orchestrated effort on the part of Republican officials across the country to work with the McCain-Palin ticket and the Republican National Committee to disseminate this message of fraud."

Bauer called the effort "a fear campaign."

Lake County has already been a hotspot for GOP attempts at voter suppression. Last week, the state Supreme Court declined to support a Republican bid to shut down early voting centers in three strongly Democratic cities in northern Lake County.

Read The Full Article:
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TPMmuckraker/~3/YHeEpqGjvJo/obama_camp_indiana_sec
_of_stat_1.php

Digg this

Palin, interrupted

I swear, it's like a sitcom, except funnier.

In today's zany episode, Palin denies the $150,000 clothers were hers, leading the McCain campaign to respond:

A senior adviser to John McCain told CNN's Dana Bash that the comments about her wardrobe "were not the remarks we sent to her plane this morning."

[Laugh track]

And Palin's 2008 chances are getting sabotaged by another 2012 hopeful.

Some former Romney aides were behind the recent leaks to media, including CNN, that Governor Sarah Palin was a "diva" and was going off message intentionally. The former and current Romney supporters further are pushing Romney supporters for key Republican jobs, including head of the Republican National Committee.

[Laugh track]

Tune in again ~~next week~~ in about 17 minutes, for the next installment of Palin, interrupted.

Read The Full Article:
http://feeds.dailykos.com/~r/dailykos/index/~3/6LDPu88bYn4/643609

Digg this

Presidential Forecast, 10/27: 8 Days
Left--Updated with new polls

Electoral College: Obama 322, McCain 157 Toss-up 59 (270 to win, 269 to tie)National popular vote:[...]

Read The Full Article:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OpenLeft-FrontPage/~3/433919872/showDiary.do

Digg this