From my brother in Brooklyn:

A friend in Philadelphia is at a heavily Democratic polling location in in Philadelphia.  She’s just written in to say this: Apparently at this polling place in 2004, there were 100 voters total for the whole day. We just passed 110 [at 10:00 am EST]. Since, as James Carville says, Pennsylvania is Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Alabama in between, Obama...

What the hell is wrong with these people? [youtube rsQC64hsSxY] I would say, “Give consideration to your eternal salvation.” Because to vote for a person who has expressed a fanatical determination to not only support abortion as it exists now but to remove all limitations on it through the Freedom of Choice Act, and to extend it without any...

This has nothing to do with policy. It’s just going to be freaking cool to have a president who talks like this: MTV Shows Barack Obama sat down for an interview with MTV’s Sway that aired today, and one of the questions he was asked concerned a ban on sagging pants. “Do feel like people should be penalized?” Sway asked. “Here is...

The final national polls are in.  Obama is winning every single one of them by margins of between five and 13 points.  McCain trails Obama in every recent poll in Pennsylvania, Nevada, Virginia, Colorado, Ohio, and Florida. To win, he likely needs to win not one but all of those states. While Nate Silver sees “a hair’s worth of tightening”...

Minnesota’s Republican governor, Tim Pawlenty, was runner-up (or close to it) in McCain’s VP search. I was certain that McCain would select him as his running mate (shows what I know — McCain really outsmarted all of us on that one).  Pawlenty is young, well spoken, and popular in a Democratic state. Had he been picked, McCain today...