Monday, November 10, 2008
The geeks @ 538 remain pretty optimistic about Franken coming up roses: The long story short is as follows: if Al Franken in fact wins anywhere near 52.5% of the undercounted ballots, it is quite likely that he will prevail, even given what I would consider to be fairly pessimistic assumptions about the number of [...]
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Not sure I agree with it, but I’d be damn proud if I’d written it. Via Andrew Sullivan, one of his readers writes in: Earlier this week, in your post “The Top Ten Reasons Conservatives Should Vote For Obama”, you wrote under Point 4: “A truce in the culture war. Obama takes us past thedebilitating [...]
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Sometimes the lukewarm endorsements are the best. Plus, Hitchens is always entertaining. I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization against its terrorist enemies and their totalitarian protectors, and on that “issue” I hope I can continue to expose and oppose any ambiguity. Obama is greatly overrated in [...]
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Norm Coleman wants you to hop on the positivity train.
Walking back the crazy: Not sure how this squares with the “pals around with terrorists” line of attack, but its a recognition that things were getting out of hand at the very least. Also, the boos are…interesting.
Per fivethirtyeight, Georgia, which Bush won by 17% in 2004, is in play this year: Here are the numbers. In November 2004, black voters represented 27.4 percent of Georgia’s active registered voter pool. As of October 1st, that figure has increased to 29.0 percent. Now, that might not seem like all that big a difference. [...]