The Daily Background

This is the absentee ballot I sent back to my town clerk’s office in New Hampshire a few weeks ago.

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On Election day, tomorrow, I plan to be blogging intermittently. From early in the morning until about noon, I’ll be working with the nonpartisan group Video The Vote in Indiana, a swing state. The purpose of the group is to provide election protection by documenting and deterring voter intimidation, etc. While most of the videos […]

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CNN’s Election Bus could be spotted in within the fenced-off staging ground. Do they have two of these, or did they make the strategic decision to send their only bus to Obama’s election night rally, rather than McCain’s?

There were no less than 12 satellite link trucks at the Obama rally site Sunday afternoon, with more […]

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Amazing video compilation put together by TPM.

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I’m planning to be in Chicago’s Grant Park for Obama’s victory rally with about a million other people Tuesday night.
If you see some weird little test-posts crop up in the next couple of days it’ll be because I’m testing some new mobile-blogging options so I’ll be able to blog straight from the scene.

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From Nielson, via emailed press release:

Nielsen just released last night’s ratings of Barak Obama’s national campaign spot for the 56 local markets where we have meters.
Overall, for the six networks that aired the program simultaneously, the spot had a household rating of 21.7% (meaning that 21.7 percent of all households watching television were tuned to […]

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Well, 27 minutes of it; there will be an additional three minutes of live stuff that obviously isn’t available to watch yet. It watches like a documentary in a lot of ways.

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Ever since it recently was made public that the highest-paid member of John McCain’s presidential campaign was Sarah Palin’s makeup artist, and that she had spent more on clothing than a lot of American’s houses are worth, I’ve been thinking about how the two campaigns choose to spend their money.
I thought I’d share this anecdote […]

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Check this out. If you do a search on Amazon for “terrorist costume,” this is what you come up with:

… Wow. Also note the “related searches.”
Update: Amazon has removed it after a number of readers of this blog emailed them.

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It’s always great to see ground-breaking companies like Apple and Google taking progressive stances on issues like these:

Apple has joined Google in publicly opposing California’s Proposition 8, a measure intended to ban the rights of gay Californians to legally marry, and has contributed $100,000 to defeat the measure.
Both companies have a history of remaining politically […]

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The AP reports:

A McCain campaign volunteer made up a story of being robbed, pinned to the ground and having the letter “B” scratched on her face in a politically inspired attack, police said Friday.
Ashley Todd, 20-year-old college student from College Station, Texas, admitted Friday that the story was false and was being charged with making […]

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Et tu, Scotty?
Scott McClellan, the former White House press secretary who sharply criticized President Bush in his memoir last spring, told CNN Thursday he’s voting for Barack Obama.
“From the very beginning I have said I am going to support the candidate that has the best chance for changing the way Washington works and getting things […]

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Hat tip- Oliver.

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(Above pictured is Sarah Palin’s pre-teen daughter with a Louis Vuitton bag photographed on 9/11/08.)
Elite:

The Republican National Committee has spent more than $150,000 to clothe and accessorize vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her family since her surprise pick by John McCain in late August.
According to financial disclosure records, the accessorizing began in early September […]

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But–but– who does America want to have a beer with?!

As voters have gotten to know Senator Barack Obama, they have warmed up to him, with more than half, 53 percent, now saying they have a favorable impression of him and 33 percent saying they have an unfavorable view. But as voters have gotten to know […]

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