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Friday, October 24, 2008

The McCain Family Anger

posted by on October 24 at 9:37 AM

As Towleroad reports, "Anger management issues apparently run in the family. John McCain's brother Joe placed a call to 911 earlier this week because he was stuck in traffic in Alexandria, Virginia."

Astounding news report, including the instigating 911 call and its bizarre follow-up calls, below.

Aaay! Obama

posted by on October 24 at 9:21 AM

Yes, it's been around, you saw it two or so days ago, and so and so on. But for those who might have missed it...

See more Ron Howard videos at Funny or Die

The Fonz is the best part.

At Least They Have Experience

posted by on October 24 at 9:10 AM

From our friends at Fox News:

Palin Look-A-Like Strippers Vie For Title

Winner Gets To Go To Washington For Inauguration

LAS VEGAS -- There has been no shortage of Sarah Palin imitators since the Alaskan governor became Sen. John McCain’s vice presidential candidate.
But Thursday night brought a new twist for Palin look-a-likes.
Tina Fey is enjoying new-found celebrity status playing Palin on Saturday Night Live. What’s good for Fey is also good for dancers at Club Paradise Gentlemen’s Club.
It was uncanny how some glasses and a little bit of makeup transformed some Las Vegas dancers into Palin look-a-likes....

This is fitting. Palin's role in the election was wrought and is propelled by sexism (see the piece in this week's New Yorker about how she got on the national radar because a bunch of conservative magazine gentlemen visited Alaska on a cruise ship and thought she was hot). She wears red patent fuck-me spike heels. Dudes love her. Does her failure as a tactic—as a distraction, as human Viagra for the GOP—signal the failure of sexism or its success? The latter: She's set smart AND sexy women back immeasurably by being a goddamned cartoon.


Thursday, October 23, 2008

Did This Get a Mention On Slog Today?

posted by on October 23 at 6:22 PM

We've got very important candy bars to cover—and costumed dogs and defaced landmarks and fallingGOPstarfuckery—but this really does deserve a mention: John McCain announced today that he will not be attending his own "victory" party on election night. Why? Space limitations, according to the McCain campaign.

Instead of appearing before a throng of supporters at the Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix on the evening of Nov. 4, the Republican presidential nominee plans to deliver postelection remarks to a small group of reporters and guests on the hotel's lawn.

Aides said Thursday that the arrangement was due to space limitations and that McCain might drop by the election watch party at some other point.

Space limitations? You mean, uh, you can't turn away a volunteer or two to make room on the stage for the candidate? Might drop by the party? At some other point? What? The? Fuck?

Life Support

posted by on October 23 at 6:18 PM

Jinx Alert! Read no further if you believe that having optimistic thoughts may rain down terrible ruin on the world. Seriously, Dan, stop reading.

The latest from fivethirtyeight.com...

This is not the time when John McCain can afford a bad polling day. And yet he's had perhaps his worst one of the year.

Here's the fun composite of fun 538 graphs. (Now with histogram!)

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3.7%!!! Suck it, McCain! Here are the rest of today's polls.

My own personal paranoid worry focuses on that little blip in the histogram right around 280. It was taller yesterday, though, so that's good news, and it's still a winning number, but it's too close for comfort.

Here's some more inspiring photos from an Obama rally in Richmond, via John Gruber, who notes that "the people in this photo slideshow all *seem* to look like real Americans."

Re: Scott McClellan Is…

posted by on October 23 at 5:55 PM

I claim all credit for this.

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That's me and Scott backstage after appearing on Real Time with Bill Maher together. I asked him who he was endorsing for and he said he wouldn't be endorsing McCain and I said that was a default Obama endorsement and he said maybe so and I said he should actually endorse Obama and he said maybe he might. Oh, Scott was coy. He didn't say he was for Obama. But he didn't say he was against Obama. But I just kept hammering drunkenly away at the fact that not endorsing Obama was a copout since a non-endorsement of McCain would be read as an Obama endorsement anyhow so why not just endorse Obama? I was drunk, and maybe Scott was too. And surely Scott talked about this with other people. Smarter people. Better people. Soberer people. But we talked about it—for a half an hour at least—backstage at Real Time. Maybe I don't deserve all of the credit, but I want some.

And good for you, Scott!

Today in Right-Wingedness

posted by on October 23 at 5:00 PM

My least favorite conservative blog is Atlas Shrugs. The blogger is a batshit crazy, Muslim-hating Ayn Rand fan. So of course, because I hate myself, I read the goddamned thing every day.

She's been pushing this bullshit Obama's-not-an-American-citizen narrative since Obama won the nomination. Today she's making her readers e-mail a judge who's hearing some phony-ass case about Obama's citizenship. And she also links to Andrew Martin's blog post, which says "Barack Obama is not Barack Obama," but is rather the son of someone named Frank Marshall Davis. The post continually refers to "negroes," so you know it's impartial and objective.

Apparently, Martin is in Hawaii to file for Obama's "real birth records." Hawaii is where Obama's sick grandmother is. Martin says:

Obama suddenly announced Monday his grandmother had been gravely ill for weeks. He has his own plane. All he had to do is tell the pilot to file a flight plan for Honolulu and take off. He's the king of his own armada.

But instead of rushing to his grandmother's bedside, Obama is waiting until I leave Honolulu before he lands.

Ask yourself, "What would I do?" What would you do if you had your own plane and mom or dad suddenly took ill? Would you tell the pilot to set course for Hawai'i, or tell him to wait three (3!) days before coming to your relative's bedside? How sick is she if Obama is will to delay his "emergency" for three days?

This entire episode is becoming curiouser and curiouser.

But you can't win for losing: The Atlas Shrugs lady, of course, thinks Obama's grandmother is a sissy for allowing Obama to visit her:

Obama dropped everything in the last two weeks of a heated Presidential campaign to visit his sick grandma in Hawaii today (any grandma worth her salt would have said, "don't be silly, win the presidency and visit me in two weeks).

And her commenters have more to say: "Did Hitler have as much help from the news media of his day as Obama is getting from our corrupt MSM??" They also link to an essay by Orson Scott Card (who, incidentally, is a hateful homophobe, and a diehard Republican McCain supporter) that was read by Rush Limbaugh on the air today. The Card essay claims the media is "the public relations machine of the Democratic Party."

Here is the moral of the story: There is no moral of the story, but conservative blogs are totally losing their shit.


McSweeney's Explains 2008 Election Demographics

posted by on October 23 at 4:00 PM

In the form of a movie trailer script for something called AMERICAN DEMOGRAPHIC: THE MOVIE:

JOE THE PLUMBER: Hello, fellow small-business owner. I'm Joe the Plumber, and I've successfully plumbed your bathroom. I'm relevant to national politics for some reason.

SMALL-BUSINESS OWNER: What do I owe you?

JOE THE PLUMBER: More than $250,000 a year. Despite my name and salary, I'm neither a Mafia boss nor a porn star.

(JOE THE PLUMBER exits the store and drives off in a van made of Stradivarius violins and children's laughter. Shortly, we hear a ding as ELDERLY JEWISH VOTER enters the store.)

Scott McClellan Is...

posted by on October 23 at 3:20 PM

...endorsing Obama.
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McClellan, President Bush's former press secretary, has made this decision because he, like Powell, is black.

I wonder when McCain is going to try use these endorsements to link Obama with Bush. That will make an interesting turn in an already interesting race.
Obama is a terrorist.
Obama is an Arab.
Obama is George Bush.

More Star Power for Gregoire

posted by on October 23 at 3:10 PM

Last weekend it was Joe Biden in Tacoma. A little while back it was Bill Richardson in Spokane. And tomorrow it's Al Gore, in an event announced just today, speaking at the Seattle Sheraton as a fundraiser for Gov. Christine Gregoire.

That's what you get when you're in a tight race (and when the party wants you to win).

Jesus Fish Says Vote NO On Prop 8!

posted by on October 23 at 3:05 PM

Slog tipper J. sees the hand of God in the latest poll data on Prop 8 coming out of California. FiveThirtyEight.com is tracking the poll data on Prop 8. At first the polls showed Prop 8 failing, then it pulled ahead, and now the race is tightening again. And here's what the data looks like as a graph:

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"Is it just me..." asks J., who sends along this image...

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FiveThirtyEight's Prop 8 fish reminds J. of the "fetus seen in Hurricane Katrina." Coincidence? Or another inscrutable message from the Almighty? And if God keeps this shit up, is he in danger of losing his tax-free status?

The Bradley Effect: The Quiz!

posted by on October 23 at 2:44 PM

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A fifth option, proposed by Slog tipper John: "The sudden erection John McCain gets whenever he sees a man in uniform; first noticed by McCain when he was a teenager watching old newsreels of General Omar Bradley in World War 2."

Will They Steal It?

posted by on October 23 at 2:15 PM

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Your election nightmares (as submitted via this Slog Post last week), graded for actual terror-worthiness.

P.S. I am quite enjoying, in the comments attached to my story, the various attempts to explain why Barack Obama's birth certificate is actually a FORGERY.

12 Days...

posted by on October 23 at 2:00 PM

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The Guns of Boston?

posted by on October 23 at 1:43 PM

First the Army brigade reassigned from Iraq to the U.S. to deal, as the Army Times put it, with "civil unrest or crowd control," and now this, from The Hill:

Police departments in cities across the country are beefing up their ranks for Election Day, preparing for possible civil unrest and riots after the historic presidential contest.

Cities that have suffered unrest before, such as Detroit, Chicago, Oakland and Philadelphia, will have extra police deployed.

In Oakland, the police will deploy extra units trained in riot control, as well as extra traffic police, and even put SWAT teams on standby.

Democratic strategists and advocates for black voters say they understand officers wanting to keep the peace, but caution that excessive police presence could intimidate voters.

"If [Obama] is elected, like with sports championships, people may go out and riot," said Bob Parks, an online columnist and black Republican candidate for state representative in Massachusetts. "If Barack Obama loses there will be another large group of people who will assume the election was stolen from him... This will be an opportunity for people who want to commit mischief."

Whether we're talking election theft, manufactured crisis, or old-fashioned race rioting, this bristling of batons in cities is a little unnerving.

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Photos from the RNC in St. Paul by dk pan.

(UPDATE: Eli posted this yesterday, but I'm leaving this one up. If I didn't get a chance to read it—Slog's hauling ass these days—maybe you didn't either.)

John McCain Really Hates Georgetown Cocktail Parties...

posted by on October 23 at 1:39 PM

...and Sarah Palin still can't actually compose a sentence in her head. Here they are on elites:

Montana

posted by on October 23 at 12:59 PM

Obama country?

Re: Drama in the Burner-Reichert Race

posted by on October 23 at 12:10 PM

Two can play at this game. The latest from the campaign of Darcy Burner:

The campaign of 8th District Democratic congressional candidate Darcy Burner today discovered the Republican incumbent Congressman Dave Reichert is falsely claiming on the official biographical directory of the United States Congress to hold a four year B.A. degree. The claim to hold a four year degree is made here.

This claim is untrue. Reichert holds only a two-year A.A. degree from the college in question.

“Congressman Reichert and his Republican allies, with the assistance of credulous reporting from the Seattle Times, has been trying to discredit Darcy Burner with a technical gotcha about how she has characterized her degree from Harvard, which, as she has repeatedly stated -- and has now been confirmed by a Harvard Dean -- is a B.A. in computer science with a special field in economics,” said Burner campaign spokesman Sandeep Kaushik. “Meanwhile, Congressman Reichert has misrepresented himself in his official congressional biographical directory as having a four-year degree that he apparently does not have. And that false claim has been posted for years, and has spread onto a host of other web listings, without Reichert ever correcting the record."

Kaushik added, “Congressman Reichert owes the an immediate public apology for his false claim, and should correct the official biographical record today. And he owes Darcy Burner an apology as well for yesterday's mudslinging.”

Now here's a fair question: Will the Seattle Times, if it can confirm the Burner camp's claim, do a story about Reichert's B.A./A.A. discrepancy and give the story equal play to today's piece on Burner's undergraduate education?

(More examples of Reichert being identified as having a B.A. here, here, here, here, and here.)

Letter of the Day

posted by on October 23 at 11:43 AM

HEY STRANGER: Thanks for your article of 21 October on "Ending the Occupation." I just want to say that I am pissed off at military recruiters. They are quite possibly the most corrupted human beings on this planet, with the exception of Dino Rossi and John McBush. They lie to children (like they lied to me when I was 17), and how the city of Seattle can allow them free-roaming access to teen events on public property is beyond me. If the city allowed carnival workers to set up recruiting tables and harrass teens at their events, there would be a major shitstorm. (And carnival workers don't even make you do pushups).

Seattle needs to wake up and see military recruiters for what they are: vultures selling our children into servitude. Take this Iraq veteran's word for it: Once you let the army set up gimmicks and violent videogames in city parks, you are only a step away from getting calls in the middle of the night from your children while serving multiple tours in Iraq. Don't believe me? Ask my mom.

Peace,
Evan Knappenberger
OIF 05-07 Veteran

We Are Not the Enemy

posted by on October 23 at 11:19 AM

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A "Savage Love" reader writes...

I'm a California-bred Brooklyn resident aching over my home state's seeming support of Prop 8. I decided to start a picture blog called "We Are Not The Enemy." It'll simply consist of photographs of LGBT couples holding a sign that says "We Are Not The Enemy." (Similar to sorryeverybody in 2004.) I hope to give people a quick, simple, visual look at the great range of couples affected by harmful legislation and discrimination. So I'm looking for couples (or LGBT pals) who want to participate!

We Are Not The Enemy is here, and you can submit a photo by emailing it to wearenottheenemy@gmail.com.

The site only went live a day or two ago so there aren't tons of photos up yet. And I doubt that WeAreNotTheEnemy will reach its presumed target audience the same way that SorryEverybody.com did. SorryEverybody.com was created for citizens of other countries around the world who couldn't believe that we had just (re)elected that asshole in 2004—they visited the site to remind themselves that not all Americans were stupid enough to support Bush in 2004. And Americans who voted against Bush visited the site too—I did, and the damn thing had me sobbing my eyes out in a downtown coffee shop—because it made us feel less estranged from our fellow citizens.

But will people who hate and fear gay couples—the people who need to be told that we are not, in fact, the enemy—spend time on this website? Probably not. But it couldn't hurt and there's something sweet and moving about the small handful of pictures posted so far.

Check it out.

To McCain, It's A Game

posted by on October 23 at 11:00 AM

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American photojournalist Christopher Morris is having a show at London's Host Gallery of his icy-cold images from the 2004 and 2008 presidential campaigns of Bush, McCain, and Obama. (Above is one of his Republicanbots.) I'm not sure how effective these images are, but the show is called My America, and The Guardian has a video interview with him here.

Here are some more of his images.

Nail Biting, Fretting, Etc.

posted by on October 23 at 10:44 AM

At this point in the election season, I know that the only thing that matters is the electoral map. And the map says Obama is leading by a wide margin--nay, a gaping chasm.

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But I'll be damned if this morning's poll of likely voters from Gallup--the same firm that showed Obama ahead by 10 points only two days ago--doesn't cause me to involuntarily Kegel.

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...

posted by on October 23 at 10:38 AM

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Top 25 Turning Points in the Campaign

posted by on October 23 at 10:32 AM

Number 13?
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The Greek columns:

By mid August, Barack Obama was being mocked by John McCain as a celebrity Messiah, whose ego and presumption exceeded his abilities and experience. So imagine the glee of the press pool who got a sneak preview of the stage at Invesco Field in Denver, the scene of his grandiose convention speech to 76,000, when they saw the stage flanked by Greek columns.

Did Obama think he was a political Adonis, or was he trying to provide a backdrop with echoes of the neo-classical designs of the White House and the US Capitol? After 24 hours of mockery, it didn't matter. The speech, his most detailed, if not his most passionate, appeared to answer the questions of doubting voters and steady the ship of a campaign that had seemed like it was beginning to wobble.

Go here to see 13 to 25.

Drama in the Burner-Reichert Race

posted by on October 23 at 10:00 AM

First, there's a new SurveyUSA poll that shows Democrat Darcy Burner four points ahead of Republican Dave Reichert. That's the first independent poll I've seen showing Burner ahead in this race—ever—and if her lead sticks that's a huge change in the political dynamics of the contest for the eastside's congressional seat.

Second, and far more explosive, is a controversial Seattle Times report that says Burner has been exaggerating the truth about her Harvard degree:

In recent weeks, congressional candidate Darcy Burner has touted her Harvard degree in economics when talking about the nation's financial crisis and her opposition to the bailout package passed by Congress.

At two debates this month, she brought up her academic background in her opening statement.

"I loved economics so much that I got a degree in it from Harvard," the Democrat said at an Oct. 10 debate at KCTS-TV. "Now everywhere I go in this district, the only thing people want to talk to me about is the economy."

She made an almost identical statement at a debate on Oct. 8.

But while Burner studied economics at Harvard, she doesn't have a degree in the subject.

This has touched off a furious response in the liberal blogosphere—including this and this from OpenLeft's Matt Stoller, who went to Harvard and says Seattle Times reporter Emily Heffter doesn't understand how the degree system there works. (Stoller also notes, with some satisfaction, that the Seattle Times decided to change its headline from "Darcy Burner's claims of a Harvard degree in economics aren't true" to "Darcy Burner's Harvard econ degree an exaggeration" after the campaign and people like him started complaining.)

McJoan of DailyKos weighs in here, with Goldy at HorsesAss adding that in his opinion Heffter is (or is being used as) a "partisan hack."

Heffter does note in her current piece that "Questions about Burner's degree originated with the National Republican Congressional Committee." Which strongly supports the idea that there was a political motive (the committee's, not necessarily Heffter's) involved in the genesis of this story.

Here's one problem, though, with all the pushback against this news story. Yes, the timing of the story, and the fact that it was planted by the NRCC, is more about politics than anything else. But the fact is, Burner did say that she had a degree in economics from Harvard. You can watch video of the statement here.

This is the Republicans' attempt at finding a "Maccaca moment" for the Burner-Reichert race. And, you know, since one of the raps against Burner is that she has a confidence in her abilities that's not rooted in actual public service experience, it has the potential to stick. It's on tape. It fits with the Republican theme—true or not—that Burner isn't as qualified as she claims. And, to repeat, it's on tape.

You can be certain that if the shoe were on the other foot, and Reichert had misstated or exaggerated or clumsily described his Bachelor's degree, on tape, that Democrats would be having a field day. Every blog that's now pushing back on the Seattle Times story would be posting a YouTube video of Reichert's "lie."

Which is simply to say that this kind of political "gotcha" is completely standard, completely predictable, and completely avoidable. That was one of the things about Sen. George Allen and his Macacca moment. It showed that beyond perhaps being racist, he was also a sloppy campaigner who didn't get that the world had changed and everything was now on tape and YouTubable in an instant.

Burner, the darling of the Netroots who worked at Microsoft and understands the power of the internet better than most candidates, should get this. She should know that if she misstates, or exaggerates, or clumsily describes her Harvard degree it will eventually be caught on tape and she will eventually have a moment like the one she's having now. To not protect herself against that possibility was just plain sloppy campaigning.

Time's Obama Portfolio

posted by on October 23 at 8:48 AM

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Time photographer Callie Shell has posted a series of candid campaign-trail shots of Barack Obama, who remains as freakishly photogenic as ever, but it's the family shots that kill me.

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See the whole series—complete with Callie Shell's brief but illuminating captions—here.


Wednesday, October 22, 2008

God Damn It

posted by on October 22 at 10:15 PM

I cost Barack the election.


Courtesy of Slog-tipper-from-the-future Peter.

"There's no chemistry—I couldn't see chemistry between John McCain and Sarah Palin."

posted by on October 22 at 7:28 PM

They're not comfortable with each other yet—McCain and Palin. So says an NBC analyst about the network's joint McCain/Palin interview tonight. No chemistry yet? Didn't McCain once call Palin his "soul mate"? Indeed he did. NBC's analyst adds that they know they're losing, and speculates that McCain may be blaming Palin for that fact, and Palin may be blaming McCain. The wheels are coming off...

This clip is... delicious. Fucking delicious. Why not enjoy it again.

Don't Read The Following if You Like Suspense or Fear Jinxes

posted by on October 22 at 4:57 PM

But Charlie Cook, of The National Journal, says it's over:

The metrics of this election argue strongly that this campaign is over, it's only the memory of many an election that seemed over but wasn't that is keeping us from closing the book mentally on this one.

More Courting of the Elderly Jews

posted by on October 22 at 4:45 PM

This time using people like Jerry Stiller and Danny DeVito in a new ad that's airing in Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania:

Today in Misses

posted by on October 22 at 3:28 PM

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So close to the crown and sash, yet forever so far away.

Five Thirty Eight says that the McCain campaign's allegations that "the real Virginia" is Republican has pissed off Miss Virginia:

"What offended me and made me sad about those comments," said Glakas, a resident for many years in northern Virginia, "is that I've been to every county, every part of this state. What's best about Virginia is its diversity. The people, the geography. We have every class, every race, an amazing immigrant population... Virginia is the birthplace of America. To say that part of Virginia is not part of the real America is just offensive."

In sadder Miss news, Miss Teen Louisiana was arrested for dining and dashing with a pocketful purse full of weed. She has been stripped of her crown.


A Story I Will Definitely Read When I'm Not So Busy Blogging and Reading Blogs

posted by on October 22 at 2:10 PM

"Why I Blog," by Andrew Sullivan.

However! The ten-or-so minute video interview version takes only ten minutes (or so), and includes discussion of the blogging vs. thinking divide, the "Bataan Death March" of campaign trail coverage, the interns who help Sullivan keep his blog humming, and the "neurotic" nature of blog-readers (and why bloggy neurosis might be justified in these times).

And What Does a VP Do?

posted by on October 22 at 1:50 PM

This endlessness that is Palin:

The comments came in an interview with Colorado TV station KUSA in response to a third-grader's question, "What does the Vice President do?”

"[T]hey’re in charge of the U.S. Senate so if they want to they can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes that will make life better for Brandon and his family and his classroom," Palin said.

The comments have drawn criticism from Democrats and liberal blogs which note the actual role of the vice president when it comes to the Senate is simply to cast a tie-breaking vote in the event of a stalemate. According to Article I of the U.S. Constitution, the vice president is the "President" of the Senate, but has no executive position when it comes to presiding over the chamber.

Now Everybody's Joe the Plumber

posted by on October 22 at 1:35 PM

At least according to this new McCain ad:

Via Ben Smith.

Raining Money on Reichert

posted by on October 22 at 1:27 PM

Via TPM, word that the National Republican Congressional Committee has laid down serious cash to defend eastside Republican Congressman Dave Reichert against the challenge from Democrat Darcy Burner:

The NRCC, which has held on to its much smaller war chest until the home stretch of the campaign, spent $4.1 million, with the biggest payment going for over $450,000 to defend Rep. Dave Reichert (R-WA).

So, for comparison, what did the DCCC spend to help the Burner campaign over the same period?

I have a call in to DCCC to find out, but I'm pretty sure it's not as much as the RNCC spent to help Reichert—the same TPM report says the DCCC's biggest expenditure was $450,000 to help defeat a Republican in North Carolina.

McCain's Calling Card

posted by on October 22 at 1:15 PM

My mom found this in the bottom of a drawer:

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Maverick.
Joker.
Plastic Coated.
Made in U.S.A.

"The Making (And Remaking) of McCain"

posted by on October 22 at 12:55 PM

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Sunday comes early with the New York Times' web publication of the Sunday magazine's cover story, "The Making (and Remaking and Remaking) of the Candidate."

It's long and thick and worth it, revealing insider details on shit we've all been scratching our heads over for months, from the nonsensical invention of the "Team of Mavericks" to the terrifying mystery that is Sarah Palin.

Here's a sample quote, from one of McCain’s advisers to the NYT:

"John can be really resistant. He’s always worried about being put in a box. He’s got a very sensitive nerve about it. A lot of times I would hear him say: ‘Don’t control me. This is my campaign.’ But I think Steve [Schmidt, McCain’s chief campaign strategist] has convinced him that we’ve got to do this if we’re going to win.”

Sarah Palin will live on as an eternal joke, but John McCain is a tragedy.

(Thanks for the heads-up, Gawker.)

The Latest Shepard Fairey Knockoff

posted by on October 22 at 12:45 PM

Posted (the old fashioned way) outside The Stranger offices:

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The Mole

posted by on October 22 at 11:29 AM

Perhaps Sarah Palin—who is doing serious damage to McCain's chances, what with her depositions, wardrobe malfunctions, suspect billing practices, and general implausibility—is a highly-placed, top-secret mole working on behalf of the Democratic party.

What other explanation is there for this:

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Obama and McCain Running Even?

posted by on October 22 at 11:15 AM

A new AP poll finds what other polls aren't finding—which means someone's very wrong.

WASHINGTON - The presidential race tightened after the final debate, with John McCain gaining among whites and people earning less than $50,000, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll that shows McCain and Barack Obama essentially running even among likely voters in the election homestretch.