McCain’s campaign manager was on Freddie Mac’s payroll until last month. And...
NYT humiliates the McCain campaign. Again. One of the giant mortgage companies at the heart of the credit crisis paid $15,000 a month from the end of 2005 through last month to a firm owned by Senator...
View ArticleOn Wilkerson, for Party Activists
I know that a lot of party activists and insiders have been very supportive of Dianne Wilkerson’s campaign. As Democrats, it’s important that we rally behind the winner of the primary. However,...
View ArticleMcCain’s stunt
Yes, it’s a stunt. This where we are right now: McCain’s poll numbers are collapsing, the Palin sideshow gets more farcical every day, and if McCain doesn’t score a huge win in Friday’s foreign policy...
View ArticleObama: debates actually matter
Obama gets it exactly right (HT: Laurel) on whether to debate on Friday, and why. “With respect to the debates, it’s my belief that this is exactly the time when the American people need to hear from...
View ArticleIt’s raining, but the sky doesn’t seem to be falling
I realize this is more opinion than diary. But I am feeling less and less every day like there’s a real problem here that we can’t solve without this bailout? WaMu crashed, and the FDIC stepped in and...
View ArticleThink Sarah Palin gets what’s going on with the economy? [Updated:...
Think again. This is just astounding. HT Yglesias, whose commenters have some excellent observations. Here’s one: I find it incredible that she can’t answer these questions. These are the most...
View ArticleGaffe rundown: McCain repeatedly blew it on foreign affairs last night
John McCain made several significant gaffes last night that deeply undermine his supposed expertise on foreign affairs. Make sure you and yours know about this, because McCain speaks with a lot of...
View ArticleOvernight polling shows Obama the clear debate winner
Linky: Fifty-one percent said Obama, the Democrat, did a better job in Friday night’s faceoff while 38 percent preferred the Republican McCain, according to a CNN-Opinion Research Corp. survey of...
View ArticleIn Praise of Pork – But There Could Be a Better Way (WITH POLL)
Whatever you can say about John McCain, he is trying his damndest to thrust the issue of Congressional earmarks (or pork-barrel spending to the less wonkish) to the center of the presidential debate...
View ArticleGood advice for Joe Biden
From David Swerdlick, who said it before I did: Memo to Joe Biden By David Swerdlick | TheRoot.com To beat Sarah Palin, keep it clean, articulate and boring. Exactly right. No quips. No one-liners....
View ArticleA ray of sunshine: the polls look pretty good right now
As of now, 182 EVs are “strong” blue, and 68 are “lean,” for a total of 250. If those numbers hold on Nov. 4, then Obama needs to pick up only 20 of the 125 tossup EVs to win. Furthermore, none of...
View ArticleEarly polling: Biden the clear winner
Via kos: CBS NEWS/KNOWLEDGE NETWORKS POLL (Uncommitted Voters who watched the debate) 46% of uncommitted voters who watched the debate tonight thought Joe Biden was the winner. 21% thought...
View ArticleA few happy graphics
First, this is why the “lean” numbers in polls at this time of year are important. Remember all those “leans Democratic” states in this collection of polls? Those are all big trouble for John McCain,...
View ArticlePalin’s performance last night starting to fall apart
No surprise. But things are starting to unravel. ABC News’ Teddy Davis Reports: Sarah Palin got her facts wrong in Thursday’s debate with Joe Biden when discussing where John McCain stands on new...
View ArticleComing next: McCain goes super-nasty — but Obama is ready
We all knew it was just a matter of time. Apparently, the time is now, since the polling is reaching disastrous levels for Team McCain. Sen. John McCain and his Republican allies are readying a newly...
View ArticleDiscipline breakdown: Palin openly questioning McCain’s decision to bail on...
This is just weird. In Englewood, Colo., on Saturday, Palin repeated her wish that the campaign had not pulled out of Michigan, where Democrat Barack Obama leads by double-digit percentage points in...
View ArticleRolling Stone’s McCain smackdown
Rolling Stone has published a very long, and quite devastating, article called “Make-Believe Maverick: A closer look at the life and career of John McCain reveals a disturbing record of recklessness...
View ArticleObama campaign launches KeatingEconomics.com
One does have to wonder if the Obama campaign wasn't just waiting for McCain to bring the nasty, so that they could unveil this new website, which is called "Keating Economics: John McCain and the...
View ArticleMcCain disaster roundup
It’s getting hard to keep track of all the embarrassing things to happen to the McCain campaign. Here are a few from today. Joe McCain (John’s brother) agrees with Obama on bin Laden and Pakistan....
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