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There’s really no other word for it:
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama raised more than $150 million in September, a stunning and unprecedented eruption of political giving that has given him a wide spending advantage over rival John McCain.
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Obama’s monthly figure pushed his total fundraising to $605 million. No presidential candidate has ever run such an […]
Today’s quote of the day goes to Barack Obama in last night’s debate:
“With respect to a couple of things Senator McCain said, the notion that I voted for a tax increase for people making $42,000 a year has been disputed by everybody who’s looked at this claim that Senator McCain keeps on making. Even Fox […]
Nothing to say here; the ad says it all.
The announcement of a running mate and the three presidential (and the one Vice Presidential) debate are some of the only structured potential game-changers that the McCain campaign had.
Since they clearly didn’t have a positive game-changing moment tonight in the final debate, how many opportunities do they have left?
Thoughts?
I’m posting this because I know I have a few Illinois readers.
On Sunday after the Chicago Marathon, I went to a rally in favor of a proposed Illinois Constitutional Convention (see the above local news report). Voters automatically get to decide whether or not to hold or not hold a con-con every 20 years, and […]
Posting will be kind of spotty this weekend. For today and Saturday and Sunday, I’ll be working as a member of the Bank of America film crew at the Chicago Marathon.
… 25 days until election day.
Don’t get cocky.
(Picture via Pundit Kitchen)
As longtime readers know, I’m registered to vote in New Hampshire (just got my absentee ballot the other day), but I’m living in Chicago for college.
Well, I got a phone call yesterday, as I periodically do, from an Obama campaign volunteer. They had my New Hampshire number, so it was an NH volunteer. Anyway, I […]
Okay, here are my initial reactions to the debate tonight, and I haven’t seen any pundits or read any reactions so this is not influenced by anyone else.
John McCain
1. John McCain looked nervous, wavering noticeably while answering several questions.
2. John McCain sounded like a broken record: he had about four examples of things, and tried […]
This Keating Five assault by the Obama campaign has the potential to be the final nail in the coffin for the McCain campaign, I think. One thing’s for sure: it’s a helluva lot more relevant to the current economic situation than this William Ayers business. I’ll have more thoughts on it later, but so far […]
Governor Palin in 2008 sure is looking an awful lot like Governor Bush in 2000…
As Greg Sargent astutely points out:
Sarah Palin attacked Obama’s patriotism today over his association with former Weatherman Bill Ayers — a move that makes it perfectly legitimate to raise questions about the Palins’ associations with a group founded by an Alaska secessionist who once professed his “hatred for the American government” and cursed our “damn […]
Looks pretty good.
Here’s another ad from the Obama campaign attacking McCain’s health care trainwreck “plan.” Much better than that other one I posted earlier.
It’s hilarious the lengths to which right-wingers will go to try to make Obama look bad even when commenting about rather quiet and uncontentious things like this ABC News blog item noting that Obama stopped his motorcade to pick up some flowers for their wedding anniversary at a local florist’s shop.
A sampling of some of […]
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