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Senate races

Posted in 2008 General Election, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Prediction time…

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The 411 ceiling

Posted in 2008 General Election, Politics, tagged , , , , on October 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Just for fun, I started playing around with the RCP map to see what the final tally would be if Obama swept every battleground state – including a few Lean McCain swing states that haven’t been put away by the McCain camp (West Virginia, Georgia, Arizona, Montana and North Dakota). The Obama ceiling? [...]

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Why did people start voting?

Posted in Majoritarianism, Politics, tagged , , , on October 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I don’t mean philosophically. I just mean, whatever happened to all that hand-wringing in the ’90s about declining voter turnout?
Since the low-point for voter turnout in 1996, turnout increased in 2000, again in ‘04, and is likely to break records on Tuesday. So, what changed? There are plenty of theories:
1. [...]

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Quote of the Day

Posted in 2008 General Election, Politics, tagged , , , , on October 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Alright, I’ve gotta give some credit to the McCain campaign today. In response to a speech by Joe Biden about Obama’s economic plan vs. McCain’s “anger” issues, the McCain campaign issued the following Biden-esque statement: “Ladies and gentlemen, the fact is that Barack Obama and Joe Biden will literally raise your taxes.”
That’s not quite [...]

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Things that make me smile

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , , on October 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The Red Sox losing to Tampa Bay in Boston to take a 2 games to 1 deficit in the series.

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“Forward to the Future, or Past – to the Back”*

Posted in 2008 General Election, Politics, Post '08 Campaigns and Elections, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »

23 days left in the campaign, and it seems like a fun time to start some post-election predictions (originally, I was going to go back through old predictions I’ve made here and see how I did. I still might after the election, but that doesn’t seem like nearly as much fun right now.)
Alright, first [...]

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And since I’m on a YouTube kick today…

Posted in 2008 General Election, Media, Politics, tagged , , , , on October 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I keep meaning to post a link to one of my favorite pieces of video of the entire ‘08 campaign… the day NBC News lost Andrea Mitchell to a sea of Republican balloons…

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“Angry Man Lurching”

Posted in 2008 General Election, Politics, tagged , , on October 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Joe Biden delivered today possibly the toughest speech by a Democrat of the campaign season. Not nearly as tough as the McCain-Palin “pallin’ around with terrorists” stuff, but pretty red meat-y nonetheless.

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The Manchurian Candidate

Posted in 2008 General Election, Politics, tagged , , , , on October 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

“Across this country this is the agenda I have set before my fellow prisoners and the same standards of clarity and candor must now be applied to my opponent.”
–John McCain today in Pennsylvania, discussing his opposition to pork barrel spending

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