Posted on October 9th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
If the predictions are on the money, the signs are all there for a trainwreck for the GOP, come November…
Chris Cillizza has pieced it all together on The Fix, noting “a column from Stu Rothenberg who, along with former Fix boss Charlie Cook stands atop the congressional handicapping game in Washington, in which Stu declares [...]
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Posted on October 9th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Rednecks for Obama are back in the news again today. I wrote about them back in late August. Here’s the latest:
Tony Viessman, 74, and Les Spencer, 60, got politically active last year when it occurred to them there must be other lower income, rural, beer-drinking, gun-loving, NASCAR race enthusiasts fed up with business as usual [...]
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Posted on October 9th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
“In my neighborhood, when you’ve got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.”
– Sen. Joe Biden, quoted by NBC News, pressing Sen. Barack Obama’s challenge to Sen. John McCain for next week’s debate. Biden added a “personal touch to the idea that McCain wasn’t [...]
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Posted on October 9th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
The Dow closed at a loss of 678 points. The pain may have just started. While the markets continue to correct based on the days trading 401K’s and other retirement accounts continue to shrink. People are fearful. When will it stop?
Jim Cramer of Mad Money on CNBC has advised on The Today Show and Hardball [...]
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Posted on October 9th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
The sister’s Sanchez have had days of waiting as their brother and his companion were missing. Today the Los Angeles Times has the story of his boat being found and both bodies being on-board.
I’ve met Loretta Sanchez. She’s a strong willed person who will stand up to anyone, anywhere, anytime. Yet think of the horror [...]
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Posted on October 9th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
I haven’t posted about the Gallup Daily Poll in a while, and I thought it worth noting that today’s Gallup Poll Daily tracking report “shows Barack Obama maintaining a 52% to 41% lead over John McCain, unchanged from Wednesday’s report.”
Frank Newport notes:
Signifying a general stability in the race, Obama has maintained a share of the vote [...]
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Posted on October 9th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
In his recent column in the NY Times, Thomas Friedman asked these very valid question about Sarah Palin and the conservative commentators boasting of her appeal:
How in the world can conservative commentators write with a straight face that this woman should be vice president of the United States? Do these people understand what serious trouble [...]
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