The last debate only makes C-SPAN's Debate Hub even MORE useful. Remember, all of the debates are indexed and archived — all of the Tweets, blog posts, video, transcripts, and word clouds included — so as the debates accumulate the site gets exponentially more useful.You can compare and contrast or mix and match the candidates across all or each of the debates. My full tour … [Read more...] about C-SPAN Debate Hubs: Blog Heaven (Still!)
Obama McCain and the Economy
Daryl Cagle, MSNBC.com … [Read more...] about Obama McCain and the Economy
Great Depression 2.0, Meet New Deal 2.0
The reason that John McCain and the rest of the GOP is failing this year is not because of media bias, or dirty tricks by the Obama campaign, but because conservatives have run out of ideas. McCain has never been an idea person, hoping that people would elect him on his august resume. But you can only go without new ideas for so long, which is why the GOP is getting its … [Read more...] about Great Depression 2.0, Meet New Deal 2.0
Is Obama Doing Enough to Get Out the Black Vote?
Time Magazine: Among many black political observers, there is a pronounced sense that Obama's advisers have consciously distanced themselves from older black leaders who might galvanize prospective voters — especially in the many impoverished black communities where there is no tradition of treating voting as an obligatory civic duty. Ronald Walters, director of the … [Read more...] about Is Obama Doing Enough to Get Out the Black Vote?
More Voters Think McCain Will Raise Their Taxes
Observers who claim Obama's success is only because of luck and a bad economy are seriously underestimating his skills as a politician. What Democrat, other than Obama, could have turned one of the most successful Republican talking points of the last 30 years completely on its head. Take a look at this nugget from the latest CBS poll showing Obama with a 14-point lead: Which … [Read more...] about More Voters Think McCain Will Raise Their Taxes
Another Poll Underlines Dangers Of McCain’s Negative Campaigning
A new Ipsos/McClatchy poll finds Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama now leads GOPer Sen. John McCain 48% to 39% percent and voters feel McCain has run the more negative campaign (by a wide margin) -- and believe negative campaigning is not effective. If this holds up as a post-election conclusion and McCain loses, the verdict will be as we've noted here: … [Read more...] about Another Poll Underlines Dangers Of McCain’s Negative Campaigning
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Tonight’s Debate Rate Card
The Chronicle has it: For starters, the university’s media rate card offers a combination Internet-and-telephone package for $650, including both wireless and hard-wired network connections. Renting a laptop computer costs $250, a laser printer is $550 (supplies included), and a high-speed copier runs $1,650 (including paper). Add on another $15 for an outlet strip to plug … [Read more...] about Tonight’s Debate Rate Card
The Secret Service Is On The Case
More on the McCain Campaign YouTube Letter: The Cynical View. And Debate.
Yesterday I quoted Techdirt as "impressed" by the McCain campaign letter to YouTube defending Fair Use. Today Chris Soghoian of the Berkman Center articulates a far more cynical view of the letter: John McCain's presidential campaign has discovered the remix-unfriendly aspects of American copyright law, after several of the candidate's campaign videos were pulled from … [Read more...] about More on the McCain Campaign YouTube Letter: The Cynical View. And Debate.
Signs that Things Will be Different This Time
To my earlier point -- namely, that Obama would win even if McCain played the card he does not want to play -- you gotta read this slice of life, courtesy of one of Ben Smith's Republican sources. Wow. … [Read more...] about Signs that Things Will be Different This Time
Have The REALLY ROUGH Games Now Begun?
Have the real dirty tricks begun? Read THIS. No matter. Even with the denial, it'll become a raging subject on some Web sites that will dismiss the denial, and on talk radio which will present it as fact. Which would be exactly the intent. Then there's common sense: Why would the Democrats give the GOP such a gift? It seems...this... UPDATE: Meanwhile, on the … [Read more...] about Have The REALLY ROUGH Games Now Begun?
Throwing Rocks Instead of Arguing Positions
I've had problems getting motivated to post lately, not entirely due to exhaustion arising from my busy personal life. There is an emotional drain on me from reading several weblogs whose authors once made rational arguments for their political views that have degenerated into throwing rocks at "the other side". Sadly, "the other side" is just as interested as they are in … [Read more...] about Throwing Rocks Instead of Arguing Positions
Will Ohio Be The Focus Of Voting Controversy Again?
Are Democrats trying to stack the deck in Ohio? Or are Republicans setting the stage to try and suppress voters big-time in an attempt to negate pro-Obama votes? Read THIS. And read THIS. You decide (and leave your comment in comments...) … [Read more...] about Will Ohio Be The Focus Of Voting Controversy Again?
A Shout-Out for “Sarah’s Base Hardener”
William F. Buckley is smiling down from heaven at John McCain, who has found a new, improved, way to continue work that Buckley started. Buckley's work: "I've spent my entire lifetime separating the right from the kooks." Buckley has had another recent ally in George W. Bush, who by the sixth year of his administration had liberated so many conservatives from the base … [Read more...] about A Shout-Out for “Sarah’s Base Hardener”
Dan Balz and Double Standards: Another Example of the Media’s Abominable Coverage of the 2008 Election
I missed this on Monday -- so stuffed was I from Canadian Thanksgiving -- but Beltway staple Dan Balz wrote a post for WaPo's The Trail in which he argued that "the real focus now ought to be on Barack Obama. Why? Well, because, "at this point, Obama has a better chance of becoming president than McCain." Praising McCain for offering "substantive" criticisms of Obama in a … [Read more...] about Dan Balz and Double Standards: Another Example of the Media’s Abominable Coverage of the 2008 Election
Colin Powell Getting Ready To Endorse Obama?
From Lawrence O'Donnell, who has shown signs that he has good info about former Secretary of State Colin Powell in the past, a prediction: Colin Powell is on the verge of making an endorsement: When Colin Powell turns off his TV after the final presidential debate, he will have learned everything he is going to learn about the candidates vying to succeed his former boss, … [Read more...] about Colin Powell Getting Ready To Endorse Obama?
Obama Dominating Among Early Voters
Nate Silver points to a recent survey suggesting Obama is well ahead in the early and absentee votes cast so far in five states polled: New Mexico (+23%), Ohio (+18%), Georgia (+6%), Iowa (+34%), and North Carolina (+34%). For a little historical perspective: "Early voters leaned Republican in both 2000 and 2004; with Bush earning 62.2 percent of their votes against Al Gore, … [Read more...] about Obama Dominating Among Early Voters
Bailout Of Banks
Patrick Chappatte, Le Temps, Switzerland It's a huge international story. For more info on the U.S. aspect of it, GO HERE. … [Read more...] about Bailout Of Banks
Davis Prosecutor Speaks; Blasts Death Penalty Critics
In a seven-page "manifesto" released yesterday after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up Davis' case, Chatham County District Attorney Spencer Lawton Jr. complained: “The PR campaign has of course become the favored artifice for corrupting the independence and credibility of the truth-seeking and independent judicial branch of our government,” he wrote. “These … [Read more...] about Davis Prosecutor Speaks; Blasts Death Penalty Critics