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Studs Terkel, a liberal’s liberal, dies at 96
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Two Chicagoans named Studs have had a great influence on my life. The fictional one, Studs Lonigan, is still in a book on my shelf. The real one, Studs Terkel, is now gone.
What a guy! And what a STORY!
The big empty
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For months now, I’ve been reading that the Obama campaign’s ground game — its organization at local levels — is far superior to its McCain campaign counterpart.
But I didn’t know how grim the GOP situation actually is. McCain simply doesn’t have many boots on the ground.
In THIS STUNNING REPORT, Sean Quinn of FiveThirtyEight.com supplements excerpts from a Washington Post story with his own observations and with a folio of 15 photos showing McCain campaign offices closed, empty or almost empty — in battleground states.
Glimpse of Rockford sign in this Obama ad! That’s enough to win my vote
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All three Gallup measures give Obama a good lead
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I recently explained HERE that one of the three polling methods Gallup uses for its daily tracking polls is of questionable accuracy because it depends on an outdated model for determining which registered voters are likely to show up at ballot boxes.
This dubious method, which Gallup calls its “traditional” model, has shown only small leads for Barack Obama in recent weeks, thereby giving the Drudge Report and other anti-Obama partisans something to shout about.
Well, now the “traditional” model is producing numbers more in line with those from the other two polling models Gallup uses. Hence, Obama is now LEADING by eight, nine or 11 percentage points, depending on which Gallup tracking poll you’re reading.
The Drudge Report, true to form, is not trumpeting this latest edition of the “traditional” poll with the zeal it showed earlier in the week when the numbers were less discouraging to McCainiacs.
Palin tops herself by showing shocking ignorance of First Amendment rights
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To hear Sarah Palin tell it, her First Amendment rights to free speech are diminished if the mainstream media take issue with her attacks on Barack Obama.
She seems to think that the Constitution guarantees her the right to say whatever she wants without anybody else claiming the right to disagree with her.
Read about it HERE – and cringe at the thought of this astonishingly ill-educated person being just a heartbeat away from the presidency.
Hey, McCainiacs! How’s that spread-the-wealth boogeyman working out? Scaring anybody?
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One of the most peculiar angles in this year’s presidential campaign is the McCain-Palin gang’s foolish theory that all the economic illiterates in America could be persuaded to take up torches and pitchforks if they thought that Barack Obama was a socialist who wants to redistribute the wealth.
The McCainiacs ignored the fact that any tax at any level amounts to redistribution of wealth in one way or another. Instead, they peddled the ridiculous notion that Obama is some kind of Marxist.
But guess what? The strategy isn’t working. Most Americans are in favor of redistributing the wealth, as we see HERE.
Drudge Report’s influence on the wane?
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For many weeks now, Matt Drudge has struggled mightily — and futilely — to find some theme that would become a mainstream media narrative and rescue John McCain’s presidential candidacy from defeat.
None of it has worked. What’s worse, the MSM are waking up to the fact that the Drudge Report’s influence on the national political conversation is FADING FAST. (I’ve got my own theories on why this is happening, but they’ll have to wait until after the election.)