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  1. Dee says:
    September 9, 2008 at 3:58 pm

    BWAHAHA!!! Spoken like a true leader.

  2. SaveFarris says:
    September 9, 2008 at 4:21 pm

    I’ve often seen the advice to act like you’re five points behind even if you’re ahead. You know, in order to avoid cockiness and foster enthusiasm and drive.

    Rarely have I seen the advice to act like you’re five points ahead even as you slowly start to sink.

    Good luck with that.

    PS: WAY too much headroom. Should have had a tighter shot.

  3. Nimrod Gently says:
    September 9, 2008 at 4:45 pm

    I’m sure the fact that McCain’s poll numbers are rising has nothing to do with the fact that him and his hot sidekick were on the tee vee all last week. Total coincidence.

  4. Steve Rogers says:
    September 9, 2008 at 4:46 pm

    I feel you on this, I really do. I’m all Fox Mulder “I want to believe”, but the reality of the situation is not looking promising.

    We’ve been told again and again how the Obama campaign is working a plan, and has a huge cash advantage, and it’s a state-by-state race, and whatnot. But all I’ve seen is them let the Republicans spout endless lies and bullshit, virtually unchallenged. Now Obama is saying he needs money? What the fucking fuck? They’ve pissed away their lead in the polls AND in the bank?

    Look at it this way: Right now, the polls show that three in four people think Bush is doing a shitty job, but two in four are saying they’ll vote for McCain. There’s 25% there that think Bush and McCain aren’t the same shit, and that’s nobody’s fault but Obama.

    This is looking like the primaries all over again: Get ahead, and then just do barely enough to win. Except now they’re counting on a huge number of new voters to carry them over the top. People aren’t going to show up in droves to vote for a punching bag with no core ideology.

    The Dems (including Obama) have caved on FISA, and now SCHIP, and soon to be offshore drilling. Show some fucking spine already. Stop acting like the country favors the Republican agenda. Stop responding and go on the attack, for chrissakes. If not Obama, then his surrogates. It’s not like there’s a shortage of issues to nail McCain on. There should be ads running around the clock showing what a lying, short-fused, train-wreck-in-waiting McCain is. I’ve seen nothing from Obama that shows me he’s serious about fighting back.

  5. Mendacious D says:
    September 9, 2008 at 4:46 pm

    The headroom is for flags. I hear that sort of thing is important in campaigns.

    Also apropos:

    Is that a black guy?

  6. Oliver Willis says:
    September 9, 2008 at 4:47 pm

    This is looking like the primaries all over again
    Who won the primaries?

  7. Nimrod Gently says:
    September 9, 2008 at 4:50 pm

    Obama’s done ads pointing out that McCain = Bush skeleton, Cap. They just need to be on more. Like, constantly.

  8. Steve Rogers says:
    September 9, 2008 at 4:54 pm

    Who won the primaries?

    Who just barely squeaked by? And how did those tight elections turn out in 2000 and 2004?

    Nobody would be happier than me to be proven wrong. I hope there’s some secret plan that culminates in an electoral route, but jeebus wept, he should be up by 20 points by now.

  9. jr says:
    September 9, 2008 at 4:55 pm

    “it rocked when you made rape victims pay for their rape kits”-Charlie Gibson to Sarah Palin

  10. Oliver Willis says:
    September 9, 2008 at 4:56 pm

    Who just barely squeaked by?
    Ask Senator Clinton what side of squeaked by she’d rather be on.

    he should be up by 20 points by now
    A lot of major party black presidential candidates running versus media-beloved war vets, then? I’m not saying this election isn’t tight, but this idea that compared to what Obama should be up 20 is kinda ridiculous.

  11. KXB says:
    September 9, 2008 at 5:06 pm

    Hmmm…..

    Poll Madness
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/09/poll-madness-mccain-takes_n_125158.html

    “But, interestingly, all three polls were also conducted using a higher sampling of Republican voters than in July, thus raising a question of methodology.

    In a year in which Democrats have a lead of 11 million registered-voters over Republicans, and have been adding to that advantage through a robust field operation, are pollsters over-sampling Republicans? “

  12. Kevin Myer says:
    September 9, 2008 at 5:09 pm

    Thank you. Seriously. Thank you. Exactly what we need right now.

  13. Jaim says:
    September 9, 2008 at 6:37 pm

    Palin is “hot”?

    Eww.

  14. Nimrod Gently says:
    September 9, 2008 at 6:51 pm

    For a 44 year old with five kids, she’s pretty hot, sure. She’s certainly the most attractive Republican since, well, has there ever been an attractive Republican?

  15. Duros Hussein62 says:
    September 9, 2008 at 6:54 pm

    In a year in which Democrats have a lead of 11 million registered-voters over Republicans, and have been adding to that advantage through a robust field operation, are pollsters over-sampling Republicans? “

    Yes. Next question.

  16. Duros Hussein62 says:
    September 9, 2008 at 6:55 pm

    Hey, Oliver, what happened to the “remember info” checkbox? Kind of a drag having to log in every time.

  17. Nimrod Gently says:
    September 9, 2008 at 6:56 pm

    And the preview button. And you said you’d bake us a cake.

  18. Jaim says:
    September 9, 2008 at 7:26 pm

    I want a pony too, O-dub!

  19. Neil's Mom says:
    September 9, 2008 at 8:15 pm

    I freakin’ love this. My 19 year old says this to me all the time and you know – he’s usually right…and he looks just like Barak…

  20. Vanessa says:
    September 9, 2008 at 8:51 pm

    Does this have any relevance?

    http://www.electoral-vote.com/

    Just wondering…

  21. Dave in SoCal says:
    September 9, 2008 at 9:14 pm

    Obama is going after Nebraska.

    Best quote:

    Loree Bykerk, chair of the political science department at UNO, said some of the attention for Nebraska might be more a result of Obama “having more money that he knows what to do with.”

    However, Bykerk added, “if they’re going through the trouble of setting up campaign offices in Nebraska, Alaska, Wyoming, maybe it is going to be close.“

  22. Dave in SoCal says:
    September 9, 2008 at 9:15 pm

    “Keep it Together… Keep it Together… Keep it Together”

  23. Frank DiSalle says:
    September 10, 2008 at 7:26 am

    This looks very interesting

    Can you say “Swift Boat”?

  24. Frank DiSalle says:
    September 10, 2008 at 7:40 am

    As is this

  25. Steve Rogers says:
    September 10, 2008 at 10:00 am

    A lot of major party black presidential candidates running versus media-beloved war vets, then?

    And how did statistical ties work out for the Dems in 2000 and 2004? And that was without any Bradley Effect horseshit.

    Watch abominable racist shit like this coming directly out of the McCain campaign and tell me you think a close race isn’t going to be a problem.

  26. Frank DiSalle says:
    September 10, 2008 at 10:13 am

    No one has ever tried to combine presidential politics and motherhood in quite the way Ms. Palin is doing, and it is no simple task.

    Source: The New York Times for September 8th

  27. Dave in SoCal says:
    September 10, 2008 at 10:24 am

    Watch abominable racist shit like this coming directly out of the McCain campaign and tell me you think a close race isn’t going to be a problem.

    How in the hell is that ad racist? You can argue that they’re wrong, they’re smearing, they’re lying, or a whole list of other things. But where do you get “racist” from that ad?

    Or is this part of the “all criticisms of Barack Obama, a post-racial black man, are racist” defense?

  28. liberalrob says:
    September 10, 2008 at 10:40 am

    Man, I hope he’s got it. We are utterly screwed if he doesn’t. We may be utterly screwed regardless, but at least Obama would try to soften the crash-landing.

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    September 10, 2008 at 8:11 pm

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  31. bill says:
    September 13, 2008 at 2:02 pm

    Man, I sure hope so.

  32. itsalljustaride says:
    September 14, 2008 at 9:24 pm

    I just want to get back to the good ol’ days when politics was its normal sack of bullshit and double-speak, not the hyper-partisan, hyper-hyperbole, hyper-bullshit “post-9/11″ version we’re still wallowing in. I think Barack is just the guy to bring us back to a stable level of bullshit and lies, and that’s all I’ll ask of a politician right now.

  33. Saffi says:
    October 8, 2008 at 11:34 am

    Coming back here on October 8th, after Oliver reminded us that he made this post less than a month ago, and all I’ve got to say is:

    BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

    Thank you, Oliver, thank you.

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