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What we lost.

• “McCain Speechwriter Trying To Write Lines That Don’t Lead To Creepy Smile” [The Onion]

• “I wish she were a fictional construct. I’m not a fan of hers. But I certainly admit that she’s got a compelling life story.” [Jezebel]

• “They were going with the winner. They didn’t care what the loser said. Now they’ve got a

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His response to the fake fight of the day:

I’m on quasi-vacation this week — posting from lovely Anna Maria Island — and have been trying to make a dent in my non-work reading list. But it’s a bit of a busman’s holiday; I’ve been reading Tom Perrotta’s excellent third fifth novel, “The Abstinence Teacher,” which turns out, not surprisingly, to have a lot of themes that would …

A different category of dumb charge. This one very much intentionally ginned up by the McCain camp, and the Obama camp is justified in being outraged over its implication that Obama is some kind of deviancy advocate. It was just as dumb and just as calculated when the Romney people were pushing it during the primaries. And the same …

I don’t think Obama meant anything crude with the phrase. And I didn’t think the McCain campaign meant to portray Obama as the anti-Christ, either. Neither of these campaigns are quite as together as critics would like to believe.

UPDATE: I should note that one major difference between the two equally dumb charges is that the Obama …

A pre-Palin take on McCain and the ladies:

He is visibly uncomfortable talking about social issues and, when pressed, tends to veer between conservatism-in-a-can (“I agree that marriage, as [a] uniquely important institution, should be protected”) and a kind of jokey admission that he is reciting talking points, his voice taking on

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Apparently, Kim Jong Il has been dead all along:

He doesn’t appear in public very often so it’s difficult to verify but there are allegations today that North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-Il has in fact been dead for five years.

A Japanese expert on North Korea is claiming that the role of the “Dear Leader” has instead been played by a

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Yesterday, our colleague Mark Halperin made the point that we should “watch” how the “media” are “framing” the “race.” Well, we have our answer!

From Politico:

A TIPPING POINT, OR JUST JOSTLING? Gallup.com – “McCain Now Winning Majority of Independents: Majority of independents now prefer him over Obama, 52 percent to 37 percent”

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Not as cheeky as the “Celeb” or “The One” ads, but the tinkly background music makes it pretty wry:

Liberal bloggers are very much up in arms over the replacement of Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann as election night anchors by the more “straight” — or at least taller! — David Gregory. Glenn posits that it can’t be sheer profit motives that prompted the decision, and we’d have to agree: Profit motives would have turned MSNBC into …

Here. A primary debate here (direct Real Video link).

Byron York of the Corner was impressed by the latter. If you’ve seen other reviews (of either), or have them yourself, please post in the comments. I’ll be watching by the pool later…

UPDATE: Sorry, commenters: I saw KT posted a link to the announcement of the Charlie Gibson …

It’s like these people have never heard of a convention bounce before.

Everyone settle. The “poll of polls” is still a more important number. Also, it’s Gallup. Incredibly sensitive to enthusiasm , hence the word “tracking.”.* Concerned Dems should look at the battleground polls. Which, well, okay, they’re kinda split (hence the word …