McCain in Virginia — Getty Images It is not, one supposes, egotistical to note that the story I told you here last Monday (“Holy You Betcha, Batman! It’s the Barracuda!” 20 Oct 2008.) is now confirmed on Saturday, after having become the subject of speculation throughout the bloviating class. To wit: Palin allies report rising campaign tension By: Ben Smith October 25, 2008 02:32 PM EST Even as John McCain and Sarah Palin scramble to close the gap in...
by Walter Brasch It’s a little more than a week before the presidential election, and I’m worried about what happens afterwards. I’m not worried about the candidates, the people, or the country. I’m worried about the media. First, I’m worried about the TV ad salespeople. For more than a year they haven’t had to do much other than sit back and open digital files from the politicians. Now, the salespeople will actually have to go to work to fill...
If anyone needed any more evidence of the extraordinary ground game organization of the Barack Obama campaign check out this numeric. Some numbers from an Obama campaign release on what its doing in Ohio: 340,846 — Number of doors knocked this weekend 483,473 — Number of doors knocked last week 1,098,777 — Total number of doors knocked in October 394,335 — Phone calls placed to fellow Ohioans by volunteers across the state 1,224,684 — Total calls made this month...
Rep. Michelle Bachmann screwed the pooch on Chris Matthews Hardball last week suggesting that the press investigate the Congresspeople who were Anti-American. She was also concerned that Obama himself was Anti-American. (Anti-American members of Congress?) That charge started a deluge of donations for her opponent, Elwyn Tinklenberg, of over $1.4 million cash being now used for advertising. Previously Tinlenberg had raised $533,000. Bachmann, MN-6, had a 13 point lead before the appearance on Hardball. This week she was polled...
So you know that ugly, Fox/Drudge-whipped up story of the young female McCain volunteer who was allegedly mugged and mutilated (with a ‘B’ cut into her face) by a black man at a Pittsburgh-area ATM? Well — surprise, surprise — it was all a hoax. As I’m sure you’ve all heard by now. The woman, Ashley Todd, made it all up. (And now faces charges.) ********** Which should mean, according to FOX News VP John Moody, that “McCain’s quest...
New York Times Op-Ed piece yesterday by the unusual triumvirate of Bill Beane, Newt Gingrich, and John Kerry analogized the obsessive nature of baseball statistics to where we should head with health care. Baseball has left simple batting and earned run averages for a next generation of statistics including WHIP (walks and hits per innings pitched) and VORP (value over replacement player) and the writers propose medicine take a similar course to elevate its game. At the heart of what they...
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