Archive for Presidential Race
A Thousand Words
Posted by: | CommentsEveryone’s their own worst critic. (Pic borrowed from MyDD)
Joe The Plumber Is Really Pissed
Posted by: | CommentsI mean, if you’re going to talk about a guy, at least invite him to the conversation, right?
This is a thread for your debate perceptions, rants, and insights.
And, if Joe The Plumber is reading this, I’m really sorry you got dragged into this whole thing.
Liveblogging the last presidential debate until 2012 (2011? 2010?)
Posted by: | CommentsWatchin’it
Posted by: | CommentsI hear the season finale of Project Runway is tonight. It’ll be interesting to see how the numbers stack up between it and tonight’s final Presidential debate. With McCain on the ropes and Obama soaring, the CW is that McCain needs to break Obama’s nose while still coming off as a steady hand at the tiller. Obama needs to keep doing what he’s been doing. The only way tonight hurts Obama’s chances is if he gets caught licking himself like a lonesome Bassett Hound.
I’m going to the Asheville Brewing Co. on Coxe Ave. to watch tonight. Xty and Muller talked me into going out, so I am. You?
Tantamount to child abuse.
Posted by: | CommentsI spotted this in my feed reader a few minutes ago, via the Kingsport (TN) Times-News:
People can be passionate about their politics. Consider, for example, the name given to a baby girl born last weekend to a Carter County couple: Sarah McCain Palin Ciptak.
While that’s the name father Mark Ciptak of Elizabethton put on documents for his baby girl’s birth certificate, it isn’t the name he and his wife originally agreed on. And it isn’t the name his wife, Layla, thought the baby was given.
“We actually came up with the name Ava Grace, and I secretively went and got another set of forms to send to (Social Security officials and the Tennessee Department of Health), and as of this time, she (Layla) still doesn’t realize what I’ve done. I haven’t broken the news to her yet,” Ciptak said.
“As of right now, I’m just trying to get up enough nerve to tell her what I’ve done and hope for the best. I hope I’m still living to tell the tale tomorrow. She thought it was a done deal with Ava Grace.
“Only some friends and family members who I have called for prayer support know at this point.”
Later in the day, Mark did break the news to Layla.
“I don’t think she believes me yet. It’s going to take some more convincing,” he said.
Mountain States Health Alliance spokesman James Watson said Monday he double-checked the records that were signed by the parents for the birth certificate name.
“I just got through looking at the (papers), and you can tell where the father signed the name of the baby. It’s in his handwriting. But both of the parents’ signatures are on the document, and that is what is on its way to Nashville,” Watson said.
Mark Ciptak, a blood bank employee for a local chapter of the American Red Cross, said he named his third child after John McCain and Sarah Palin to “encourage somebody” and “to get the word out” about the campaign.
Rumor has it that the Ciptaks’ next child will be named after either Paul Schenck, Joe Vogler, Westbrook Pegler, Anthony Bouscaren, or Marylin Shannon…
Taking a Closer Look at NC Voter Registrations
Posted by: | Comments538.com has a concise look at what the huge rise in new voter registrations might mean at the polls for Barack Obama:
“Since the first of the year, Democrats have added about 250,000 voters to the Republicans’ roughly 50,000, while unaffiliated voters also increased their numbers by about 170,000. What was a 10.6 point party ID gap at the start of the year is now 13.0 points. About half that gain came between the first of the year and the state’s May primary, and the other half came between the primary and last week’s deadline.
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“Meanwhile, about 150,000 black voters — and 35,000 “other” voters — have been added to the rolls since the start of the year. That compares with about 235,000 white voters.Assuming that Obama captures 35 percent of white voters, 95 percent of black voters, and 60 percent of “other” voters, the change in the racial composition of the electorate since the first of the year is worth a net of about 1.5 points to Obama in his race against McCain.”
My God Is HUGE!!1!
Posted by: | CommentsFrom the invocation at a McCain rally in Iowa (where Obama leads in the polls 53-41):
{h/t TPM}
The Gods will be at war if Obama wins, a battle royale in the firmament to determine which God will come out on top. Very exciting really, and quite likely a bigger story than the Presidential race itself. Some will say there’s not a dime’s worth of difference between YHWH and Krishna and suggest you root for Ra, but have a look at where all the megalomaniacal father gods have led humanity. Examine their records. If an Obama victory is to lead to a fight for the throne, my money is on Mars though my heart is with Aphrodite.
Monday Morning Reading
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Only three days left until early voting begins. Click here for Buncombe County times and locations. Twenty-two days until November 4th. Twenty-three days until you see a lot of shell-shocked people wandering around wondering what to do with themselves.
McCain is gearing up for a “reboot” of his campaign. 538.com wisely says, “What the McCain campaign really, really doesn’t want is for this move to be portrayed as desperate stunt.”
Not a lot of good ones, but the concept is worth turning over in your head: The American Center For Sarah Palin Inspirational Limericks.
Paul Krugman wins the Nobel Prize in Economics.
Jon Elliston at Mtn. X points us to these two columns in the Smoky Mountain News, one focusing on bloggers west of the Balsams and one called “The Implications of Blogs”. The former is more interesting than the latter, but it’s always fun to hear non-bloggers talk about blogs and trying to figure out how to elevate traditional media above them.
Headlines read Palin Abused Authority. Palin says, “I’m very very pleased to be cleared of any legal wrongdoing … any hint of any kind of unethical activity there.” Heads across America explode.
If only they’d listened to us eight years ago…
- A record 90% of registered voters say the country is seriously off on the wrong track, the most since this question first was asked in 1973
- Bush’s 23% job approval rating has now fallen below Nixon’s lowest
- Bush’s 73% disapproval is at an all-time record
- 92% of Americans are following the election closely
Anyone heard anything from Carl Mumpower? Has he suspended his campaign again? It’s hard to tell if he’s running or not.
