I know, far-fetched idea, voting our wants and desires, but I’m a wild guy.

I suggest McKinney. I suggest Sheehan. I suggest Obama will bring as much change as did Nancy & and her useless, Bush enabling Congress: None.

I always enjoy the eviseration of the nincompoop weasel wingnuts here, I need the laughs… but hey, let’s freakin’ CHANGE something this time, whattya say?

I say a vote for Obama is a vote for a Pelosian style administration. Wishy-washy Republican-lites. She’s slightly less appalling then ATC bribe-taking, man-loving Hastert. Seems Nance is wedded to AIPAC from her frequent speeches there, oh wait, Obama and McCain likes them too, so I guess Israel approves of our candidates while a poll shows 62% of us silly Americans want better presidential candidates, but I digress..

I’ve had enough of the Democrats, and never had any use for Republicans. Seem like the same party to me. You?

Poor David — He’s taken all the sexy out of Chevy Chase and replaced it with chicken soup for the electoral soul and bandaids for all the little Republican ouchies. McCain, that darling boy, forced I tell you forced to go negative and spiteful by the cruel harsh world and it’s scummy ways. And just when he was all set to inspire a new generation with his hammy goodness.

Reading Bucket’s use of “hep cat” yoof language is about as agonizingly, sphincter-curlingly painful as being 16 years old and watching your dad put on a backwards baseball cap and do a “rap” about how it’s cool to keep off drugs and stay in school. In front of all your friends. While breakdancing.

boom tsch, boom-tsch

I’m Ki-ki’s dad and I’m here to say
Don’t do any drugs to-day
Don’t, don’t, don’-don’t, don’t, don’t do it!
A huh ahuhahuhahuhahuhahuhahuhahuh
If you don’t
want to be a fool
listen to your dad
and stay in school!
Stay, stay, stuh-stuh-stay stay stay in school.
Stay, stay, stuh-stuh-stay stay stay in school.
Stay, stay, stuh-stuh-stay stay STAY IN SCHOOL!

Respect (your elders)!

yes, spite does work

don’t hate me for linking to the Capitalist Times, in this case it’s relevant…

Point well taken, though I wasn’t trying to do that. I just find it amusing that the GOP’s amen corner, having resigned itself to having a standard-bearer that hardly any of its members wanted, is now desperately grasping at any kind of spin whatsoever in order to make McCain look like Captain Inevitable, scourge of t3h l3fty P0l1tbur0.

When I see people like Erik posturing and declaiming, it makes me think of that ancient video game which, when you inserted a quarter, replied, “Ah . . . A CREATURE for my amusement!”

Whereas Erik, if he hangs around, will simply be feeding quarters to the machine with nothing to show for it.

I would add that it’s not that the media *think* the race is close — they *need* for it to be close. Their amount of viewership relies on having something interesting for the audience to watch, and audiences don’t care for horse races when the winner-to-be is already pretty obvious. Given that need, I don’t find it at all surprising when the media act to enable one candidate, preferring him over someone else, in order to preserve the election-as-a-horse-race illusion.

Important point right now though – we shouldn’t spin things to make Obama look invulnerable or inevitable. Right now all the smart money’s on Obama, and all the projections still have him out front – but not by the crushing landslide he had a month ago. This is good news – it still holds off the “underdog” narrative, it slows the tide of McCain fluffing. What’s that I say? Yes, the amount of media fawning and falling over themselves to make JiSM3 not look like an idiot is actually less than what they want it to be. Because they think the race is close.

One of John Marshall’s readers has a very astute take on it:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/209193.php

It’s pretty TL for a reader comment, but don’t DR – actually read the whole thing.

You mean like Obama coming back from vacation?

For all the conservative hoots and clicks about how McCain is closing the gap, they kind of missed the part where Obama had to go on vacation and basically give them the entire playing field for a week before they could make up any ground. And they still can’t close the deal.

For me, the question is ‘how come McCain couldn’t do better in a week where his opponent was on vacation and not actually campaigning?’

Current polling indicate a statistical dead heat (except today’s by Rasmussen which shows McCain’s advantage at +5 – incidentally, they also have the smallest sample size). I think this is a result of McCain’s dumping tons of money into the state – and now, especially with the Rasmussen polls giving his advisors and strategists ammo to back the Ohio or nothing plan – he’ll be locked into it. Can Obama win Ohio back? He certainly has the resources to do it. Can Obama win the election with the 20 OH EV’s? That he can as well – the current projection is Obama +25 EV’s and that’s with OH going McCain.

But even if you ignore what’s going on in Ohio, the race is tightening up. The past month of non-stop McCain attacks has made a dent. Now if only something was planned to occur sometime soon in order to change the narrative again and turn that trendline around…

Not really. Over time, McCain’s support has been dwindling away in several of the key medium-sized states. OH, FL, NC are all ties within the margin of error. VA is a statistical dead heat. Barr is drawing off McCain’s support in GA, which puts the state in play.

All those states went red in 2004, and McCain absolutely must take all of them in order to win. If he loses any one of them to Obama, then he must make up the loss by capturing blue states with sufficient electoral votes to replace the ones lost.

For example: If McCain loses FL (27 EVs), then he’s got to capture NY (31) or CA (55), or multiple blue states in order to make up the loss (MA + NJ = 27). Given that McCain is having trouble keeping traditionally red states in his corner, I don’t give him any chance of being able to peel off any traditionally blue states.

If McCain loses two or more of the iffy red states (OH, FL, NC, VA, GA), then it becomes statistically impossible for McCain to win, regardless of the popular vote.

But what of Cream Corn from the Socket of Davis?

Hey jim, buddy, I think I just one upped ya!

It was the nonexistent Iraq-Pakistan border that McCain was talking about, or was trying to talk about since it doesn’t actually exist.