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It seems to afflict progressives more. After years of numbing defeats, can it be, is it possible the voter tide is finally moving leftwards? The symptoms include obsessively checking blogs and websites every fifteen minutes for the latest poll results, pondering if the crucial Left-handed Albanian Soccer Mom voter segment in Pennsylvania will tilt [...] Everytime The Drudge Report hysterically trumpets a poll showing that McGrumpy might win this thing, just head over to FiveThirtyEight where Nate Silver will calmly explain why the poll in question is an outlier or has a biased sample. He will do so using fact, logic, and science. Like this. Trick or Treat Do you [...] Races usually tighten at the end. Today’s Gallup Daily shows no sign of that. In fact, the opposite seems to be happening. Blairwatch on the endorsement, and on “Obama and how it will affect the EU”, quoting from a speech by David Rennie, The Economist’s Europe correspondent. However, it’s time for a reality check, “Senator Obama is not Martin Luther King, Obama is not Bobby Kennedy. He is not an idealistic romantic dreamer. Barack Obama is [...] We are the brothers of bullion, the sisters of stock options; the compadres and comadres of cash. For the last 8 years, we tuxedo and evening gown-clad denizons of the richest 0.01% of America’s economic bell curve have been celebrating the president who has been concentrating more and more money into our hungry hands. [...] Via Andrew Sullivan While we’re on the subject, there seems to be some confusion in Liberal Land that rednecks must always be right-wing bigots or some such nonsense like that. Um, Willie Nelson is a redneck. And he’s seriously progressive. As is another country singer, Steve Earle, who mentioned at a concert I was [...] He’s the author of Deer Hunting With Jesus, reviewed here and blogs at JoeBageant.com. From polling site FiveThirtyEight We have a pretty good idea of where this race stands — a far better idea than you’ll get by trying to discern the meaning of John Zogby’s divining rod or paying any attention to what you see on the front page of Drudge Report. Number one, John McCain is [...] Ms. Hilton proposes a number of quite liberal ideas should she become president. Stop global warming. Drive hybrids. Get rid of the old gray-haired guys. My favorite. Paint the White House pink and move it Maui. Twitter Vote Report will provide real time reporting from polling stations across the country. By using identifiers on the messages (called hashtags), tweets (Twitter messages) can be easily filtered and tracked by anyone. For example a tweet of “#94080 #machine” means “zip code 91406, machine problems.” During the RNC, Twitter was used extensively as [...] |  | ||||
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