… And Obama still whooped McCain with the biggest electoral landslide in 20 years.
Need I say anything more?
(Hat tip- Pollster.com.)
Breaking:
Obama plans to appear at a morning news conference Monday in Chicago to announce Democratic primary rival Hillary Rodham Clinton as his secretary of state and say that President George W. Bush’s defense secretary, Robert Gates, is staying on.
Democratic officials said Obama would name Washington lawyer Eric Holder as attorney general and Arizona Gov. Janet […]
… Apply for a job at Wal-Mart.
That is all.
Welcome the change:
In the 22 days since winning the White House, President-elect Barack Obama has taken 22 questions from reporters and has done two sit-down television interviews.
The Democrat held his fourth press conference since Nov. 4 in Chicago Wednesday morning — his third in as many days — an unprecedented bit of access for reporters […]
Here’s a post I did in 2006 about presidential turkey pardons throughout history.
Stop. Go. Read.
A source within the Obama campaign headquarters here in Chicago tells me they were swamped with calls today regarding Obama’s reported tap of former rival Hillary Clinton for the office of Secretary of State.
Most callers were not happy about Obama’s apparent choice, I’m told.
With Ted “series of tubes” Stevens loss in Alaska, Democrats will have at least 58 seats in the Senate come January.
Up in Minnesota, the state-required recount process is continuing, with over 80% of the votes left to be counted or recounted, and already Norm Coleman’s margin of lead is shrinking. The margin is now down […]
From a reliable source: the man who Sarah Palin called a domestic terrorist, Bill Ayers, held a house party in his Hyde Park home here in Chicago Sunday night celebrating the end of the election (and, he hopes, the end of the ceaseless stream of media requests directed towards him).
Ayers, now a college professor and […]
Somebody just sent a private message to my YouTube account accusing me of being either a moron or a government agent.
I get a kick out of that.
This video speaks for itself.
As promised a while back…
Word just got around that President-elect Obama has opted to resign his Senate seat this Sunday, November 16th. Although this isn’t a controversial thing at all and nobody will complain or laud him for it, it does put pressure for Illinois’ immensely unpopular governor Rod Blagojevich (D) to choose a successor to fill out the […]
Newspaper trade publication Editor & Publisher on November 5th paper sales:
Many of us who have been reporting for years on the declining demand for the daily miracle — in newsprint anyway — were both pleased and a bit perplexed to see Wednesday’s mad rush for Barack Obama editions.
[…]
Of course, watching the New York Times print […]
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