Top 10 Why Palin is Stupidest Choice Ever

Rachel Maddow calls the palin choice a LOL Quayle like decision.Here’s why:1) knows less about foreign policy than McCain knows about the economy.2) by own admission, hasn’t followed that Iraq thing3) former Republican opponent calls her lightweight and vague on the issues4) supported ted Stevens’ bridge to no-where before she said today she opposed it.5) [...]

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The Coming Palin Backlash

Sure, as you can see from the rec list, the idea that John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate would boost his support among hordes of Clinton's disaffected female supporters is a miscalculation at best. CNN ran a piece that featured a[...]

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THE EXPERIENCE DODGE.

Watching the McCain flacks in a continual state of meltdown on CNN, it's striking how swiftly their central defense of Palin is backfiring. When the anchors question her experience -- 19 months in the Alaska statehouse, and before that the mayoralty of[...]

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Fuel Crunch Hits Southern Iraq

Southern Iraqi cities are facing auto fuel shortages this week, residents tell IraqSlogger.

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Witnessing History

The three DK editors who set out for Invesco Field yesterday got their chance to stand in a line six miles long (no exaggeration), but they also got a chance to share sunscreen, water, and good humor with the others in that line. Once inside, our seats were... less than terrific. We were in the lesser rungs of the print media section, which meant sitting behind the CNN and ABC booths, with only a peephole sized spot through which we could get a glimpse of the podium. We got a better view of the speakers by twisting around to see the "Jumbotron" than we did by looking toward the stage.

Really, those at home and the editors back at the Big Tent had a better view. Except... except...

That image is of the folks inside CNN's booth -- the techs and crew that helped the booth operate. At the moment Obama began speaking, even though they were sitting behind CNN's own cameras, they produced their personal cameras, help them up and started to take pictures. The same thing happened next door at the ABC booth, and at CBS, and around the curve at FOX. Each of these people was there to do a job, but they realized they were witnessing history, and they wanted to connect with it in a personal way. They wanted an image of their own to mark the occasion -- something they could look at and say "I was there, I was really there, the day Barack Obama delivered his acceptance speech."

I was there. It was glorious.

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Friday Night at 8: Perspectives

Obligatory YouTube -- Coltrane doing "My Favorite Things" (coutesy of Astrotype):I didn't watch the entire Democratic Convention, but I watched enough to be very affected by many of the speeches, especially Michelle and Barack Obama's words and[...]

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On Today , Lauer asked Noonan about WSJ column on
Obama speech, but ignored comparison to "Nuremberg rally"

On the August 29 broadcastof NBC's Today, whilediscussing Sen. Barack Obama's August28 speech at the Democratic National Convention, host Matt Lauersaid to Wall Street Journalcolumnist Peggy Noonan, "[B]efore the speech, you wrote in The Wall Street Journal that you wereunimpressed with the staging, the Greek column look, the hugeness of thearena," and then asked her what she thought of the speech afterward.However, in describing Noonan's August 28 column to her, Lauerreferred to her criticism[...]

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Presidential Forecast - 8/24 - Pre-Convention
Snapshot

This is just a quick snapshot of the race on the Saturday before the convention, the day Biden was announced as the VP nominee. It only incorporates changes from FHQ, Elec-Vote, Rasmussen and OpenLeft. (If anybody kept a snapshot of Elec Proj, RCP, or 538 for 8/24, please email or leave in the comments, and we will update).

Obama leads 289-249, a loss of 2 EVs from our last forecast. With both state and national polls tightening, this was not unexpected. The main driver of the change was Rasmussen, which moved 6 states in McCain's direction.

Please also check out our Senate Forecast and House Forecast.

Unanimous solid states, not shown in the table below:
Solid Obama: CA, CT, DC, HI, IL, MA, MD, RI, VT - 119 EVs. Note: NY is no longer unanimous Obama-Strong (Elec-Vote has it at OL), but has not been placed on the chart at this time. (All numbers, however, are correct).
Solid McCain: AL, AZ, ID, KS, KY, MS, NE, OK, TN, UT, WY - 74 EVs.

The sources are sorted by each projection's estimate of Obama's Electoral Votes (Algorithm at bottom). The states are sorted by the number of electoral votes.

DCW Presidential ForecastState
EVsFHQElect. Proj.RCPEV.
comNBCOpen LeftCNNRM538
.com.?Date

8/24.8/20.8/20.8/24.8/6.8/22.7/24.8/22.8/20.
Obama-Strong (O)

165183183134190183153193200
Obama-Lean (OL)

5777451262777687143
Tossup (T)

16289147102132571282730
McCain-Lean (ML)

605024455370646468
McCain-Strong (M)

94139139131136151125183197
Obama Total

222260228260217260221264243
McCain Total

154189163176189221189247265
Obama Est.

304299297295288287284276272

Texas
34MLMMMMMMMM
Florida
27TTTTTMLTMLML
Pennsylvania
21TOLOLOLTOLOLOLOL
Ohio
20TTTTTTTMLML
Michigan
17TOLTOLTOLTOLT
Georgia
15MLMLMLMLMLMMLMM
New Jersey
15OLOOOLOOOLOO
N. Carolina
15TMLTTMLMLMLMM
Virginia
13TTTTTTTTML
Indiana
11TMTMLMLMLMLMM
Missouri
11TTTMLTMLTMLM
Washington
11OOOOOOOLOO
Minnesota
10OLOLTOLOLOLTOOL
Wisconsin
10OLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLO
Colorado
9TTTTTTTTT
Louisiana
9MMMMMMMLMM
S. Carolina
8MLMMMMMMMM
Iowa
7OLOLOLOLOLOLTOLOL
Oregon
7OLOLOLOLOOLOLOLO
Arkansas
6MMLMMMMMLMM
Nevada
5TTTTTTTTML
New Mexico
5OLOLTOLTOLTOLOL
W. Virginia
5MMLMMLMMMLMM
Maine
4OOOOOOOLOO
NH
4TTTTTTTOLT
Alaska
3TMLMLMLMLTMMM
Delaware
3OLOOOLOOOOO
Montana
3TMLMLTMLTMLMLML
N. Dakota
3TMMLTMLMLMMLM
S. Dakota
3MLMLMTMLMLMMM


FHQElect. Proj.RCPEV.
comNBCOpen LeftCNNRM538
.com.?

Notes:
538 - FiveThirtyEight - Safe and Likely mapped to Strong (O or M), Lean to Lean (OL or ML), Tossup to Tossup (T)
CNN - Safe mapped to Strong, Leaning to Lean, Tossup to Tossup
Elect. Proj. - Election Projection - Solid and Strong mapped to Strong, Moderate to Lean, Weak to Tossup
EV.com - Electoral-Vote.com - Strong mapped to Strong, Weak to Lean, Barely and Tossup to Tossup
FHQ - FrontLoading HQ - Solid mapped to Strong, Lean to Lean, Tossup (Dem and Rep) to Tossup
NBC - Base mapped to strong, Lean to Lean, Tossup to Tossup
OpenLeft - Solid mapped to Strong, Lean to Lean, Tossup to Tossup
RM - Rasmussen - Safe and Likely mapped to Strong, Lean to Lean, Tossup to Tossup
RCP - RealClearPolitics - Solid mapped to Strong, Lean to Lean, Tossup to Tossup


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Monica Goodling For President

Where are these profound expressions of surprise coming from? While John McWeirdsmile’s vice-presidential pick wasn’t what was expected, it’s no surprise, no surprise that a Republigoat would select as the number two executive of the nation an inexperienced noob who nonetheless relentlessly carries water for the party’s Dark Ages world view. Let’s revisit a now [...]

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Miss Congeniality (No, Really) For Attack Dog

Seriously.But the former beauty queen is known as Sarah Barracuda, so this dog has teeth. Not that she’s a dog or anything — she’s purrty, yep. As long as Biden remains the gentleman he is, there should be no worries at their debate. I hope.Meanwhile, I continue to marvel at how out of [...]

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