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Pat Cunningham offers an unabashedly liberal perspective on national politics. A note of caution: The language gets a litttle salty on some of the sites to which this blog links. So, don’t say you weren’t warned. By the way, this blog’s name is inspired by the Will Rogers quote, “All politics is applesauce.” |
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7 comments October 3rd, 2008
Steve Doocy, one of the hosts of “Fox and Friends,” a morning program notable for its political nonsense, made a BIG DEAL today of the fact that the flag pin Sarah Palin wore at last night’s debate was bigger than Joe Biden’s.
Doocy and his accomplices said nothing, then or now, about John McCain’s failure to wear a flag pin at last week’s debate — or about Barack Obama having worn one.
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References to Main Street are all the rage these days in the presidential campaign and in the debate over the financial crisis.
All the time, it’s Main Street this and Main Street that.
Enough, already!
Main is not the most common street name in America. Second (or 2nd) is. Main is only in seventh place.
I used to live on Main Street — in two residences, actually — but I don’t anymore, so I don’t give a damn about the people who live there. I only care about us folks on Easy Street (as I figuratively call my street).
For your edification, HERE’s a list of the most common street names here in the good old U.S. of A.
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As someone once observed, context is everything.
Hence, it’s important to note that a Ronald Reagan quotation Sarah Palin used at the end of last night’s debate came from a 1961 CAMPAIGN AGAINST MEDICARE, which Reagan saw as a step toward totalitarianism.
I wonder if Palin knew about this context.
Nah! She just read what they gave her.
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Media Matters BLOWS THE WHISTLE on CBS, MSNBC and FactCheck.org concerning a matter that came up in last night’s vice-presidential debate.
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As I’ve mentioned here before, the WEB SITE FiveThirtyEight.com (the name of which is based on the total number of electoral votes) does a lot of cool things with the poll numbers it crunches every day.
My favorite is the scenario analysis based on 10,000 computer simulations of the presidential election, using current poll numbers and some historical figures.
The current edition of that analysis (above) shows that Barack Obama is about 23 times more likely than John McCain to win the November election in an electoral landslide (that is, with more than 375 electoral votes).
Notice, too, that McCain has only one chance in 128 to carry all the states that George W. Bush won in 2004.
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Syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer SAYS Barack Obama “is a man of limited experience, questionable convictions, deeply troubling associations…and an alarming lack of self-definition…” but he also has ”both a first-class intellect and a first-class temperament. That will likely be enough to make him president.”
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In no particular order of importance:
Chi-Trib real-time poll SAYS Joe Biden won among independent voters.
Adam Nagourney of the NYT SAYS Sarah Palin’s performance may have helped John McCain a bit.
Jonathan Allen of Congressional Quarterly CREDITS Biden with the evening’s best counterpunch when he noted that McCain has voted 477 times to raise taxes.
Ben Smith of Politico.com ARGUES that Palin “passed a pass-fail test” but ”flagged as the debate went on.”
Ezra Klein of the American Prospect SAYS “Palin turned in a genuinely competent performance, and Biden turned in a superlative one.”
James Fallows of The Atlantic SAYS moderator Gwen Ifill was “terrible.”
R J Eskow of the Huffington Post SAYS Palin indicated that she “doesn’t support the fundamental principle of separation of powers.”
Politico.com OFFERS snippets of reaction from dozens of political activists, left and right.
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