that the game is over: Obama leads McCain among likely voters by 51% to 47% in Ohio, a four point margin that has not budged since last week’s TIME’s survey. But he now leads McCain 52% to 45% in Nevada and by 52% to 46% in North Carolina, margins which are both slightly larger than [...]
Exxon-Mobil is once again declaring record profits: The company’s prior record was $11.68 billion in the second quarter of 2008. The latest quarter’s net income equaled $1,865.69 per second, nearly $400 a second more than the prior mark. The company said its revenue totaled $137.7 billion in the third quarter. I’m sure it had nothing [...]
Jack Cafferty is asking if Obama or McCain would spend more. The question is irrelevant for all but the most hardcore anti-government nutjobs. Total spending is only part of an equation to consider. The other side is revenues. What is the relationship with spending to revenues? Just like when you get a raise at work, [...]
Sarah Palin is attacking Barack Obama for having neighbors: “It seems that there is yet another radical professor from the neighborhood who spent a lot of time with Barack Obama going back several years,” Palin said at an event in Bowling Green, Ohio. “This is important because his associate, Rashid Khalidi … in addition to [...]
Christopher Shays is finally breaking with the Republican Party – or at least the latest incarnation of the most shameful campaign in history: “I just don’t see how [McCain] can win,” Connecticut Rep. Chris Shays told the Yale Daily News earlier this week. “He has lost his brand as a maverick; he did not live [...]
Campbell Brown is rightfully outraged by Elizabeth Dole’s religious fear-mongering (which I discussed a bit yesterday). But she gets outraged over the wrong thing: We’re fighting two wars, our economy is a disaster, and Dole’s message to voters is to falsely accuse her opponent of not believing in God? Again, a false accusation. The charge [...]
SO I managed to miss Obama’s infomercial – I was busy teaching. But I did catch him on The Daily Show. I’ve heard comparisons with Reagan’s “Morning in America”, but I keep thinking about “The Man from Hope” or whatever the bio-commercial Bill Clinton ran was called. I guess it doesn’t matter – but I’d [...]
A fitting end to the insanity: McCain aides told CNN’s Dana Bash Wurzelbacher would appear with the Republican presidential candidate at his first campaign event in Defiance, Ohio. But in what was a slightly awkward moment for McCain, Wurzelbacher was nowhere to be seen when the Arizona senator called out for him. A campaign aide [...]
The Federal Reserve has cut the overnight rate to 1%. That means the prime-rate falls to around 4% or so. The move signals the Fed’s belief that the chief problem facing the economy right now is a lack of money. I agree, but I don’t think the rate-cut is going to be the cure we [...]
Among one of the more despicable attacks is Elizabeth Dole’s attempt to paint her opponent as “Godless”. The Dole campaign says it’s basing its charge on Hagan’s attendance at a fundraiser that was in the home of an advisor to the Godless Americans’ political action committee, a group that promotes rights for atheists. In a [...]
