Month: September 2008

The best overview I’ve read yet from Ambers.

From Kos’ poll tracker. She was + 17 a little over two weeks ago.

RIck Hertzberg on Palin’s Couric train wreck:

The whole thing reads like something rendered from the Finnish by Google Translate.

Hilzoy gets to the nub of it:

Here’s a question: did Rick Davis tell John McCain about his arrangement with Freddie Mac before last week? If not, then I would expect Davis to be fired within days: you just don’t keep information like that from your boss and expect to keep your job. But if Davis did tell McCain, then when McCain approved his ad slamming Obama for supposedly having an advisor who had been the chairman of Fannie Mae — though both he and the Obama campaign deny that he advised them, and his connection to Obama would have been tenuous in any case — McCain knew that his own campaign manager had been retained by Freddie Mac until it was taken over by the government. That would be dishonorable, though not, unfortunately, surprising.

Dishonorable? McCain?

1,000 rally in Alaska against their own governor.

She sides with Obama on taking military action in cross-border raids in Pakistan. Well: at least she’s answering questions.

Factcheck.org sorts it all out.

Yes, I saw Tina Fey and Amy Poehler last night. And, of course, the amazing thing is that a whole section of the script was directly transcribed from Palin’s actual attempted interview with Katie Couric. There is no way Saturday Night Life could make more fun of Palin than she made of herself. How does McCain win an election with a national joke as his running-mate?

This ad, released during the debate, gets razzed by Ezra Klein, Hilzoy, and Jonathan Cohn. Its premise is one of the saddest aspects of out current politics. According to McCain, a man able to concede in an argument where the other guy has a point is thereby proving he cannot lead. Do we really need more politicians unable to be graceful to their opponents at times? Is that really what leadership is? Haven’t we already had eight years of that?

Another poll shows that Obama won the debate big. The CW, of course is not what the pundit class believed immediately after the debate. It’s what regular Americans felt.