Tag Election 2008

Elective Compulsive Disorder

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,…

Drudge Report polls and reality

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…

The Economist endorses Obama

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…

Don’t Vote 2 (the People’s View)

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…