Ah, Georgia you re-elected Saxby Chambliss and you didn’t vote with the rest of America on election day.
Georgia, I know Virginia and North Carolina.
And Georgia, you’re no Virginia or North Carolina.
Woe are the Democrats who will have to make do with 58-59 members of their senate caucus, total control of the House and a [...]
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Woot.
Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens has lost his bid for a seventh term. The longest-serving Republican in the history of the Senate trailed Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich by 3,724 votes after Tuesday’s count. That’s an insurmountable lead with only about 2,500 overseas ballots left to be counted.
AP: Obama becomes first black president in landslide
11:37: It happened here. In America.
11:00BARACKOBAMAELECTED44THPRESIDENTOFTHEUNITEDSTATES
10:44: Fox calls VA for Obama. YES. YES.
10:04: Chris Wallace calls Bob Schaffer and Tom Udall “two very attractive men”
10:00 Iowa goes Obama. WOOT.
9:39 Fred Barnes is pissy.
9:38 New Mexico baby. SO EXCITED
9:31 O-H-I-O
9:24: NBC calls OHIO.
9:20: Fox calling Ohio… we’ll see.
9:01 Minnesota [...]
Obama 286 - McCain 252
Popular vote: Obama by 2%
Map:
I feel pretty safe with this map. I’m conservative when it comes to these things, though I wouldn’t be surprised now with an Obama win in FL, OH, MO and even NC. Of those, the most likely to flip is FL which would be a huge prize.
In [...]
It’s how the right rolls.
An ACORN community organizer received a death threat and the liberal activist group’s Boston and Seattle offices were vandalized Thursday, reflecting mounting tensions over its role in registering 1.3 million mostly poor and minority Americans to vote next month.
Attorneys for the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now were notifying the [...]
And remember, this is the conservative Roberts court.
The Supreme Court sided Friday with Ohio’s top elections official in a dispute with the state Republican Party over voter registrations.
The justices overruled a federal appeals court that had ordered Ohio’s top elections official to do more to help counties verify voter eligibility.
Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, a [...]
The NRSC is pulling out of Colorado. Which probably means they’re giving up on the Udall-Schaffer senate race. And they have to defend more red seats.
Love it.
UPDATE: Here’s video of Republican Bob Schaffer whining because he can’t bring notes in to a debate.
Conservative columnist George Will hits the nail on the head
But the McCain-Palin charges have come just as the Obama campaign is benefiting from a mass mailing it is not paying for. Many millions of American households are gingerly opening envelopes containing reports of the third-quarter losses in their 401(k) and other retirement accounts — telling [...]
Unlike my earlier hedge-filled predictions I made about the election, this one I make without equivocation: There will be no tie. The 269-269 electoral tie will not happen in 2008. I feel as sure as when I succesfully predicted that we wouldn’t have a brokered Democratic convention.
I’m not saying we won’t have any Florida-style suspense [...]
Right off the bat, I should note that I don’t have any particularly great skill at this. But then, neither do the vast majority of the talking heads on TV.
I think there’s an 85% chance Sen. Obama will win. That’s been my number for most of the election season. Right after the 2006 election that [...]
So she did this for the Declare Yourself voter registration drive.
Okay.
I’m not going to link to it here, but Google, my email, and some comments show me a lot of people are talking about it. The story rings false to me, and is just the sort of thing like the phony “whitey” video tape story that Larry Johnson was peddling that would be whipped up [...]
For the ten millionth time, this election is about individual states.
Republicans’ Senate campaign arm called off television ads Tuesday that were to air in New Mexico in the run-up to Election Day, an indication that it’s leaving the GOP candidate there to fend for himself as the party braces for losses.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee’s [...]
A lot of new Democrats registered to vote down in Dade county (Miami), especially good among hispanic voters who in South Florida tend to be Cuban and more inclined to vote GOP. I’m curious what the numbers in Florida’s other major Democratic stronghold, Broward county (Ft. Lauderdale) are like - especially since the black population [...]
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Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) told GOP congressional hopefuls on Thursday that they should not be afraid to criticize both political parties – including Republican members of the House.
During a conference call, the National Republican Congressional Committee chairman instructed candidates, campaign managers and press secretaries that given the anti-incumbent environment, it could be beneficial for House [...]
Yeah, just a regular guy. A regular, awkward, guy.
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John McCain has again shifted around who is in charge of his campaign. Anyone notice that through the Clinton and McCain shakeups the Obama camp has kept its head down and is being run smooth as silk?
UPDATE: Josh Marshall has more detail on why this is a bad sign for McCain. They’re scrapping everything and [...]
Of all the stupid things related to political coverage that I hate, this is at the top of the list. It is the simplification of politics to the point of a WWE match. Except it doesn’t work that way. The only real win-loss moments are election days, everything else is conjecture by jackasses.
Lying down with fleas, etc.
But one McCain supporter, retired Col. Bud Day, who was held prisoner with McCain in Vietnam, said the attacks on McCain were nothing like the swift boat attacks. He helped produce those attacks against Kerry, which were true, he said. The attacks against McCain are not, he added.
‘The swift boat, quote, [...]
Soooo not surprised. (via)
I’ve got two responses to the right clutching their pearls and fainting because a few people think that while honorable, John McCain’s military service isn’t the end-all and be-all of why he should be commander-in-chief.
KTHXBI.
Democrat Rick Noriega deflates Cornyn, who once said he could sympathize with people who kill judges.
In the same poll that shows Sen. Obama with a 17 point lead in Minnesota, Al Franken is 10 points behind Norm Coleman. I’ve never been super wild about the Franken run (I don’t like entertainers and other media folks running for office most of the time), but I’m even less so now. Maybe he [...]
Long time readers know that I have consistently said Karl Rove doesn’t know what the hell he’s talking about. The myth of him being a political wunderkind is just that - a myth. There are millions in the real world who could do a better job than he did, because they deal in the real [...]
Scaife’s Tribune-Review opines that the 15% lead for Sen. Obama in that Newsweek poll is a clear sign of doom for the Obama campaign.
Up next: Why that Eli Manning touchdown drive in the Super Bowl may not lead to the Lombardi.
Also: The Celtics win game four… but have they really “won”?
From today’s Hardball. On the left, Danny Diaz of the RNC. On the right, Karen Finney of the DNC.
Perhaps you shave before you come on tv, hmmm Danny?
Right now John McCain is doing a “town hall” meeting being broadcast by Fox News (The Official Network of McCain ‘08, Home Of The Terrorist Fist Bump) and it’s a mighty amazing trick the McCain camp is pulling. Somehow they’ve gone to the most diverse city in America (New York City) and are seemingly unable [...]
The power of blog compels you. The power of blog compels you.
Of course, if McCain picks Jindal as his running mate, who will protect Louisiana from the zombies?
People don’t think these things through.
I find it astonishing that John McCain thinks that we should just follow along with President Bush’s economic policies. But I guess when you’re the candidate of same-old same-old you shouldn’t expect much.
In this clip, McCain surrogate/advisor Lindsey Graham explains to us that McCain’s policies will be an “extension and enhancement” of Bush.
McCain is so [...]
Newsbusters’ Noel Sheppard: “Republicans face more scrutiny on race than Democrats.”
Me: “Yes!”
In the language of law enforcement, you round up the usual suspects.
Check out this interactive infographic from the NY Times on how various demographics voted during the primaries. Then click “Blacks”. Hehehe.
Their candidate who was going to lose versus Sen. Kerry couldn’t get enough signatures to make it on the ballot.
I don’t know about you, but I love the new, more incompetent GOP.
The race is now a tie, with Democratic voters coming back to the fold and Obama leading with Independents.