Posts Tagged ‘John McCain’

An obviously frustrated and probably angry Republican named John Ziegler has produced a nearly ten minute minute video in which he uncovers a shocking fact about this year’s presidential election: Many Obama voters were ill-informed about the issues. 

To back up his claim, Ziegler cites a Zogby poll which shows that almost 60% of Obama supporters believed [...]

Jed Lewison put together this extraordinary video of election night, from state-by-state projections to parts of Obama’s victory speech.  I didn’t watch any of Fox News’ coverage, so it’s remarkable to see just how depressed their reporters and anchors were as the evening wore on. Does anyone actually believe that Fox is a straight news outfit? [...]

From my brother in Brooklyn:

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 [...]

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, [...]

First, Lawrence Eagleburger said that “of course” Sarah Palin wasn’t ready to be president and would never be a “genius” in the job:

After twenty-four hours in GOP reeducation camp with Tucker Bounds and the rest of the Omega House guidance counselors, Larry resurfaced on Fox to regurgitate the party line, adequately:

Eagleburger is no Mr. Eckert:

Much more [...]

I’ve tried to put MSNBC’s election night widget on the sidebar to your right. It doesn’t really fit, so I’m putting it here. Check this post in your obsessive quest for the latest election results on November 4th.

Which is why they’ll take the advice of Arnold Schwarzenegger in selecting their next president:

Just like they did four years ago:

From CrooksandLiars:

John McCain says that Barack Obama can’t get anything done in Washington because he has no history of working across party lines to get things done for America. 
 

Both Senator Obama and I promise we will end Washington’s stagnant, unproductive partisanship. But one of us has a record of working to do that and one of [...]