So tonight Melissa and I were listening to the radio and because there was nothing else on we stopped to listen to KISW. They were doing a segment called 'Bad Joke Friday'. This week the apparent subject was Barak Obama and the jokes included (I am paraphrasing here ( Read more... )

Before we get too busy patting ourselves on the back lets consider the sobering thought that across this great nation we may be ready to elect an African American president but bigotry is alive and well. Bans on gay marriage passed in three states (CA, FL, and AZ). It's a painful setback, but the victory in the presidential race gives me hope that ( Read more... )

PA and OH went for Obama. It's over.

He has 207 EV's now. The idea that he would loose anything on the West Coast is completely insane.

WA = 11
OR = 5
CA = 55

That's more than enough, everything else is icing on the cake now.

So I've avoided this up till this point but now, at the last minute, I'm going to go ahead and post my final electoral predictions. I'm giving the majority of the tossup states to Obama. I think that polling (because it excluded cell phone only individuals and tends to exclude new voters) has underestimated the level of support for the Obama ( Read more... )

Synchronized debate video. Very clever. :)

http://www.236.com/video/2008/watch_synchronized_presidentia_9857.php

Anyone out there remeber the reation John Edwards' $400 Haircut? Of COURSE Fox News wouldn't dream of treating those two very comperable events any differently.

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The folks over at NRO are getting a little desperate to find good news for McCain/Palin in the polling out there. How desperate you ask? This Desperate.

Don't want to click through? That's them analyzing how close the returns are in the NICKELODEON KIDS CHOICE POLL.

The REALLY sad news? Obama still leads by 2 points.

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Tonight while I was serving up dinner there was the sound of brakes locking up outside our house, followed by an impact and the unmistakable yelp of a dog in pain. Melissa popped out of the bedroom and I moved to the door. Outside it was pouring down rain, and in the road just down from our house there was a girl crouched over a dog in the street. ( Read more... )