Ugly Inside, Ugly Outside

Thank you, John McCain & Sarah Palin! You both have just unleashed the worst kind of hatred that I sometimes forget can be in us humans. Who knew there are still some in this country that are being consumed by such vile hate? Well, I guess the Republican Party knew.

Palin's routine attacks on the media have begun to spill into ugliness. In Clearwater, arriving reporters were greeted with shouts and taunts by the crowd of about 3,000. Palin then went on to blame Katie Couric's questions for her "less-than-successful interview with kinda mainstream media." At that, Palin supporters turned on reporters in the press area, waving thunder sticks and shouting abuse. Others hurled obscenities at a camera crew. One Palin supporter shouted a racial epithet at an African American sound man for a network and told him, "Sit down, boy."

For the sake of our nation's well being, we can NOT allow this hate to win! If the McCain-Palin GOP operation intends to resort to this kind of ugly racism to win, then they don't deserve to win. America is better than this.

New State Polls

Indiana from Research 2000:

Obama 46
McCain 46

Observed Fox 28 in South Bend:

McCain hasn't visited the state since July 1st. Obama plans to visit Indianapolis on Wednesday, his sixth trip to Indiana since the May primary.

Time/CNN

North Carolina

Obama 49
McCain 49

Ohio

Obama 50
McCain 47

Wisconsin

Obama 51
McCain 46

Indiana

McCain 51
Obama 46

New Hampshire

Obama 53
McCain 45

First two trackers of the day

Rasmussen reports the same eight point race he saw yesterday:

Obama 52
McCain 44

Rasmussen sees the race as essentially frozen for nearly the last two weeks. He observes:

This is the second straight day that Obama has led by eight percentage points, his largest lead of the year. For the past twelve days, Obama’s support has ranged from 50% to 52% while McCain has been at 44% of 45% every day.

Research 2000/Daily Kos likewise essentially sees the race as static, with Obama where he has been for the prior three days and McCain rising one point from 40 yesterday to 41 today:

Obama 52
McCain 41

According to these two polls, it's an eight to 11 point race at the moment, and the data that is coming from state-level polls seems to support such a conclusion.

New Obama ad: It's time for a president who will change the economy and not the subject

Monday with Barack Obama and John McCain

Barack Obama had a press availability yesterday in Asheville, North Carolina:



John McCain had a rally:



Ask yourself which one of these men behaves presidential and which one of these men acts like a cranky old man temperamentally unfit to be president.

Late Nite Open Thread

What are you doing up so late??!! How could you? OK, OK... Come on over & stay up with us. So wazzup tonight?

Talk about whatever. ;-)

McHothead

In case you missed it, The Las Vegas Review-Journal has a great story up today on John McCain & his infamous temper. The more we find out about his habit of throwing temper tantrums, the harder it is to imagine McCain making logical decisions on life or death issues like nuclear weapons.

Scared yet?

Tonight's States of the Race

Rasmussen has some new state numbers for our viewing pleasure, so let's take a look at them!

Ohio:
McCain (R) 48%
Obama (D) 47%

Virginia:
Obama (D) 50%
McCain (R) 48%

Missouri:
Obama (D) 50%
McCain (R) 47%

Colorado:
Obama (D) 51%
McCain (R) 45%

Florida:
Obama (D) 52%
McCain (R) 45%

The bad news: Ohio??!! McCain's still slightly ahead in Ohio? Rasmussen says so, but they contradict just about all other pollsters that have recently shown Obama's numbers rising in The Buckeye State. So is Ras right and everyone else wrong? I don't know, so let's wait and see.

The good news: At this point, Obama's fortunes don't lie with Ohio alone! After all, Ras is yet another pollster showing Obama up by a healthy margin in Florida! If Obama can secure Florida, then it's truly game over... We win! Also, Obama has rebuilt a lead in Colorado while also taking the lead in Missouri. If Obama wins all these states and Virginia, then we're in for a sea of BLUE on November 4!

Conclusion: Now's a good time to give Obama an extra lift up if you're in Florida, Colorado, Virginia, Missouri, or Ohio! And no matter where you are, now is the perfect time to give some $$$ to local parties and Congressional candidates in these states. Let's make sure we maximize on a Big Blue Wave! :-)

NBC-WSJ Sez: Obama's Gaining!

Think CNN was an outlier? Think again! Here's the new NBC-Wall Street Journal national poll.

Obama (D) 49%
McCain (R) 43%

Yet another national poll, yet another growing Obama lead. Again, this is NOT where the GOP ticket wants to be in the final month before the election. This IS, however, where Democrats want to be!

We can't let ourselves be distracted by the GOP low-blow smears! Yes, fight the smears... But also stay focused on what matters. Keep talking about Obama's plan to fix the economy, Obama's commitment to working class families, and Obama's desire to make our nation stronger.

We're almost there... Keep up the good work! :-)

CNN Sez: Obama's Moving Up!

Don't believe me? Here are CNN's numbers!

Obama (D) 53%
McCain (R) 45%

So why are we seeing Barack Obama pull away to a larger lead clearly outside the margin of error? CNN says it's mainly because of three major factors:

1. The economy is Issue #1, and Obama is preffered over McCain on the economy by a full 18%!

2. Sarah Palin's popularity is plummeting, and McCain's "Hail Mary" attempt has turned into a Debbie Downer dragging his numbers down as well.

3. McCain is now seen more than ever as the exact same as Bush.

But can McCain recover enough to give us a run for our money (to flee the country) in the next month? Possibly... Politics can be unpredictable at times. But at this point, attitudes are hardening and decisions are already being made. And with Obama now at a 50%+ majority in many of the polls with the remaining polls showing Obama well ahead in the high 40s, the Republicans are not in a good position in the final stretch of the 2008 Election.

If Obama stays strong, keeps debating well, and continues to speak to our concerns, we'll win. :-)

More States of the Race

Fresh from Political Wire!

Democracy Corps of Ohio:
Obama (D) 49%
McCain (R) 43%

Public Policy Polling of North Carolina:
Obama (D) 50%
McCain (R) 44%

The bad news: Can't find any here!

The good news: Obama +6 in BOTH Ohio AND North Carolina?! Whoa! We have more polls confirming an Obama lead in both crucial swing states. Obama continues to expand his electoral vote lead as he offers real solutions on the economic crisis while McCain rummages through the bottom of the barrel to toss everything INCLUDING the kitchen sink at Obama.

Conclusion: Barack Obama is now not only pulling away in the national polls, but with the electoral map as well! Obama now stands a good chance of winning in an electoral landslide. We just need to keep up the good work, and the Obama campaign needs to stay on the offense and keep offering real solutions on the economy... And we'll win BIG!! :-)

Whoops, They Did It Again!

First, it was Sarah "Lying Sack of Shit" Palin. Now, it's Joe McCain! Yes, John McCain's brother now says that John McCain will authorize special forces to go across the border from Afghanistan into Pakistan to go after al-Qaeda. Even though McCain mocked Barack Obama for doing the same, his surrogates all seem to be endorsing the Obama Plan to take on al-Qaeda terrorists!

Wow, and I thought McCain was "The National Security Candidate™"! So why is it that McCain's campaign is stealing foreign policy & national security ideas from Barack Obama? Score another point for Republican hypocrisy!

Everything you want to know about the Keating Five but were afraid to ask

Barack Obama thought that Americans would like to know about the scandal that John McCain called his "worst" failure of judgment. Now mind you, this is a guy who wrecklessly crashed three airplanes and recklessly flew over North Vietnam. He's also the guy who chose the phenomenally ill-prepared Sarah Palin to be his vice presidential pick and almost ruined the financial bailout procedues. So for an erratic, ill-tempered, quirky, unstable guy to call something his worst failure of judgment really is something. In the midst of the banking meltdown that resulted from John McCain's deregulatory spirit, without further ado, here is the Keating Banking Scandal:



All the resources Americans need to understand what a monumental failure in judgment means to John McCain only requires they go to this Keating Economics.

Today's States of the Race

With many thanks to TPM Election Central for the fresh new numbers!

Suffolk University of Virginia:
Obama (D) 51%
McCain (R) 39%

Survey USA:

Virginia-
Obama (D) 53%
McCain (R) 43%

New Hampshire-
Obama (D) 53%
McCain (R) 40%

The bad news: Where?

The good news: Obama is now building strong leads in two states that looked like pure toss-ups only days ago! If Obama can take these two states and 17 electoral votes off the table for McCain, then it's realm game over for Election 2008! Obama now looks to have at least 270 EVs either solidly behind him or leaning his way. If he stays this strong he wins!

Conclusion: I hope Barack Obama will knock our socks off at the debate tomorrow night! If he can put away swing states like New Hampshire and Virginia now, then we'll be in awesome shape for November 4! :-)

Second set of today's trackers

Diageo Hotline today suggests a slight tightening of the race:

Obama 47
McCain 41

Yesterday was 48-41. Given the small numbers on any given day, this may be a random fluctuation: the same as Gallup's report of a one-point expansion of the race over from where it stood yesterday:

Obama 50
McCain 42

Yesterday was 50-43. The take away message from the four trackers today is that the race is essentially even with where it stood yesterday.