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Polls and punditry grab everybody’s attention, but the real story of this election is the Obama ground game to which the media are just waking up. 
No surprise to anyone who has been following the cross-country tour of the guys from fivethirtyeight.com, e.g., this visit to northern Virginia. But now even David Broder is catching on, […]

As of this morning, nicely assembled by Jerome Armstrong at MyDD
 
Quinnipiac:
Florida: Obama 49, McCain 44
Ohio: Obama 52, McCain 38
Pennsylvania: Obama 53, McCain 40
Big Ten:
Illinois: Obama 61, McCain 32
Indiana: Obama 51, McCain 41
Iowa: Obama 52, McCain 39
Ohio: Obama 53, McCain 41
Michigan: Obama 58, McCain 36
Minnesota: Obama 57, McCain 38
Pennsylvania: Obama 52, McCain 41
Wisconsin: Obama 53, McCain […]

My dad, who died in 1967, was a member of the CIO, the United Steelworkers of America, then when the Congress of Industrial Organizations merged with the American Federation of Labor, the Plumbers Local #55 in Cleveland, Ohio, where he was an elected official of that union. The final year of his life, his influence […]

Going all in on the Maverick taking the moral high ground by not attacking Barack Hussein Obama’s non-friend friend the Reverend Wright, the Washington Post does the attacking for him in the form of a newspaper article. Maybe WaPO will win a Nobel Prize for opinion polling when their geeks figure out the algorithm for […]

At tonight’s debate Barack Obama was cool, collected, articulate and connected with his audience.  John McCain had his moments but ended on a whiney note with that “give me another opportunity” and a real lack of grace when Barack held out his hand, John pointed Barack to Cindy, and then turned away. Barack ended with inspiration, […]

In case you somehow missed this.

Looks like the left in France has run out of gas, no more “nouvelle philosophes”… instead, a “nouvelle Obama” named Harlem (as in A train) Desir (as in New Orleans streetcar). Click here to see the image, and then you can go channel the Red Queen in cryogenics if she can break away from […]

Marc Ambinder, the Atlantic Monthly author who was among the first to calculate that Obama would win the Democratic primary, has posted some interesting data on how people of different religious preferences split between McCain and Obama. I note that the survey cited was conducted in June-August. I wonder what the numbers would look like now.

As you watch the value of your 401K shrink before your eyes today, make yourself feel a wee bit better reading Rick Perlstein, who suggests that Barack Obama, if he can manage to win the election, might have a legislative opening similar to FDR’s in 1932 and LBJ’s in 1964—crises to deal with, public support […]