Category: 2008 election
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Polling the family
Talking to my parents about the election is always interesting — Eli and I are in California, surrounded by Obama supporters, so we are perhaps overly optimistic about the election. Meanwhile, my parents are in Ohio, surrounded by conservatives, and, well: Down here, Friday afternoon is when you wash the sheets. Saturday is when you…
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Waiting (for 11/4/08) is the hardest part
Yesterday morning, we saw Joe Biden in Canton, which was entertaining (despite starting 1 1/2 hours late). There were two opening speakers: Governor Ted Strickland, which was a pleasant surprise, and then . . . John Boccieri. Who? Well, he’s running for Congress in a district where the 30-year incumbent Republican is retiring, and he…
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I don’t understand 25% of the country! But not the 25% you might think
I don’t particularly care or worry about the 20-25% of the population who still approves of Bush. They’re lost causes. What does concern me, if you believe the polls, is the 25%-ish of the population who disapproves of Bush but is planning on voting for McCain. I am baffled by them! When has there been…
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Arugula for all!
While the Obama campaign has had lots of fun mocking McCain for not knowing how many houses he had, the McCain campaign came back with . . . an arugula reference. Because a year ago, Obama had the nerve to mention the price of arugula. I find it unbelievably frustrating that worrying about the price…
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Punk’d!
Yeah, we got punked. But Biden has had two of the funniest lines of the campaign, so this should be fun. With Your kitchen table is like mine, you sit there at night after you put the kids to bed and you talk about what you need. That’s not a worry John McCain has to…
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Those are some elitist bootstraps, I guess
Plenty of bloggers and journalists, not to mention McCain himself, have called Obama “elitist” at various points throughout the campaign. I would just like to point out that in politics right now, the two greatest examples of living the American Dream — of starting from nothing and working hard from there — are Bill Clinton…
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Running to the center is not leadership
Gail Collins is correct when she notes You liked Barack because you thought he could get us past the old brain-dead politics, right? But those of us disappointed about the FISA vote aren’t disappointed because we don’t understand what a compromise is. I’m disappointed because Obama wasn’t only talking about bipartisanship and building a consensus…
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Now batting for Pedro Borbon…Manny Mota! (mota! mota!)
I’ll admit it, I’ve been spending way too much time paying attention to the crazy political goings-on this season. Even after the endless Bataan Death March Obama-Clinton showdown, I’ve continued to pay attention. But the relentless echo-chamber, especially on the right, but also on the left, is completely out of control, and blogs have made…
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But that just raises more rumors!
While I’m glad that the Obama campaign is ready to combat the crazy rumors about Obama and his family, I’m disappointed that the campaign was pressured into releasing Obama’s birth certificate. (Not that anything will ever be enough for some people.) And no matter how much people insist that they just want to know if…
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That was MY template!
So I was distressed today to see a blog posting on the McCain campaign PowerPoint on a “Path to Victory” (warning: NSFW). Apart from the ridiculous strategizing going on at the McCain camp (I’m not too worried after seeing their plan) I was surprised that the McCain people don’t actually use PowerPoint…they use Keynote! And…