Wilmington, NC Well, he’s toned it down. And she’s toned it down, too. And John McCain is to be congratulated for that–apparently the fact that his rallies were turning into hate-a-thons while his poll numbers dropped caused the good Senator to step back from provocative lines like, “We don’t know who Barack Obama really is…” [...]
In an effort to measure the impact of Obama’s candidacy on the electorate, especially among young and minority voters, Gallup has begun publishing presidential tracking poll results based on two different “likely voter” models. The first is the traditional model, which designates likely voters based on how they answer questions related to both their current [...]
Way back in 1999, well before the rest of us got to know Krugman on the op-ed page of the NYT, Justin Fox saw this coming. UPDATE: Krugman’s own blog today.
Wilmington, N.C. I’m hanging out, waiting to hear John McCain deliver his latest new stump speech–the text seems less toxic than recent efforts–but I couldn’t let Bill Kristol’s latest advice to the vote-lorn column pass. Last week, you may recall, Kristol wanted McCain to go negative in a big way. As if that would be [...]
Easily one of the best, non-political stories of this election cycle has been the tale of Levi Johnston, an 18-year-old kid from Alaska, who was living his life, going to high school, watching his friends tend to his MySpace page, playing hockey, and hanging out with his girlfriend, Bristol, until everything suddenly changed. In the [...]
John McCain and Sarah Palin took the stage in Virginia Beach this morning to the theme song from the movie Rocky, a 1977 Billboard #1 hit called “Gonna Fly Now.” The song’s opening stanza seems especially apt for McCain’s current situation: “Trying hard now/ It’s so hard now/ Trying hard now”–sung in a funky disco [...]
And though that lady at McCain’s Lakeville townhall seemed to think Obama was both, the audio of the event didn’t pick up what I thought I heard as McCain took the mic away. I will add, however, that the woman talked to reporters afterward and seemed pretty keen on the idea of Obama being at [...]
One of the most opaque, misleading and emotionally-charged attacks on Barack Obama focuses on his votes as a state senator in Illinois on so called “Born Alive” legislation. Late last week, the criticism became an official part of the McCain campaign’s regular messaging. From my new Time.com story on the topic: “As a state senator, [...]
