John McCain’s been saying that Barack Obama plans to fine small businesses who don’t comply with his healthcare plan. It’s not true, so Obama was ready not with a zinger, but with the details of his plan. Hearing the facts of the proposal and not the false characterization of it from his staff seemed to genuinely stun McCain in a very...
McCain’s Strongest Moment in the Debate
The Obama campaign’s overriding theme has been that if you liked the last eight years under George W. Bush, you’ll love the next four under John McCain. So last night, McCain was ready with a zinger. There’s only one problem with what McCain said and today, the Obama campaign’s turned it into an...
Obama Running Away With it Among Early Voters
From SurveyUSA via Fivethirtyeight.com: SurveyUSA has a lot of good habits as a pollster, and one of them is breaking out the results of early and absentee voting in states where such things are allowed. So far, SurveyUSA has conducted polling in five states where some form of early voting was underway. In each one, Barack Obama is doing profoundly better among...
An October Surprise McCain Ought to Pursue: Cheney Out, Condi In
Dick Cheney is experiencing a recurrence of a heart problem he’s been living with for some time: Vice President Dick Cheney will receive an outpatient procedure later Wednesday to restore his normal hearth rhythm after doctors found a recurrence of atrial fibrillation, the White House said Wednesday. “During a visit with his doctors this morning, it...
You Can Fool Some of the People Some of the Time, You Can Fool Seven Percent of the People All of the Time
From the New York Times/CBS Poll: a record 89 percent of Americans now say the country has pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track while just 7 percent of Americans say the country is going in the right direction Meanwhile, the electoral map looks very good for Barack Obama. Even Fox News analyst Dick Morris has produced a map showing Obama winning 396...
McCain: ‘Obama Hangs Out With Terrorists’; Obama: ‘Say it to my Face, Bitch’; McCain: ‘Fine, I Will’; Obama: ‘Fine’; McCain: ‘Good’; Obama: ‘Fine’
You may recall that last Friday was Say It To My Face, Bitch Day: [youtube krIdNAhsFE4] [youtube IDz7iJYJXmE] Today, McCain almost pledges to take up the challenge: In an interview on a St. Louis radio station, McCain said Obama’s comments that “I didn’t have the guts” to talk about William Ayers in the last presidential debate have...
