I love these new insta-polls. (By the way, these are real scientific polls, not garbage internet polls.) CBS (which polled uncommitted voters only): Obama wins big, 39-27, with 35% saying a tie. Another key point: Obama before … [Read more...]
Archives for October 7, 2008
Where Carla Howell Loses Me
I also question her "MA is 8th or so in tax burden." She doesn't think the other methodology for measuring works (the one that puts MA 37th or thereabouts). She thinks measuring by per-$1000 percentages is the wrong way to do it. That it's … [Read more...]
Tonight’s loser: Tom Brokaw [also, open thread on post-debate coverage]
What a truly awful job of moderating. I was shouting "Tom, shut your FACE!!" (or some less polite variant) at the TV on multiple occasions. Oh, yeah, the candidates. They did fine. No game-changers. Obama hit some … [Read more...]
Debate #2 Open Thread & Fundraiser
Please click here to donate to the campaign through the BMG page. Even $5 is terrific because it builds the total number of donors to the campaign. Thanks very much to the numerous people who donated during Debate #1, the Vice Debate, and … [Read more...]
Spend Some Time in NH this Month
Here is something concrete, practical and effective you can do to help improve the economy, end the war in Iraq, and restore dignity to our great country: spend a day or two working for Obama in New Hampshire over the next month -- or even … [Read more...]
Policy proposed to define independent bloggers out of “the news media”
Of course the sticky wicket is that if there are no rules as to who can be defined as 'news media', then there is no way to distinguished who can sit in on the meeting and who can't. Clearly the original rule was intended to … [Read more...]
Massachusetts Poetry Festival, Lowell, Oct 9-11!
Are you a poet, and don't yet know it? Okay yes, a cheesy line to start off a plug for THE COOLEST EVENT EVER IN MASSACHUSETTS, but it got your attention, didn't it? No, I am in no way affiliated with the Massachusetts Poetry Festival … [Read more...]
Republicans Getting Desperate
The little map in the upper right corner has created a terrible weight for the Bush/McCain campaign as the days, and the stock market, tick down. It appears that some elements of the Republican team are starting to panic. This is hardly the … [Read more...]
Yes-On-One on Left Ahead! at 2:30
In a few minutes at 2:30, you can livestream us three Left Ahead! podcasters as we take on the Yes-on-Question-One advocate Carla Howell, co-founder of the Committee for Small Government. We extended the opportunity for the yessers to come … [Read more...]
Obama Hatred On Display Again At Palin Rally, Supporter Screams “Treason!”
"In the latest instance of inflammatory outbursts at McCain-Palin rallies, a crowd member screamed "treason!" during an event on Tuesday after Sarah Palin accused Barack Obama of criticizing U.S. troops." "At a Palin rally on Monday, … [Read more...]