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Newsweek's Campaign '08 Retrospective

Newsweek had a number of reporters embedded in the McCain, Obama and Clinton campaigns for the past year, working on a multi-part inside story on what happened over the past year. Part 4 of 7 was posted this morning, and it’s well worth the time t...

Election Beer Bets

I bet my friend Neil a pint of beer that Obama would win Georgia. He accepted. I bet my friend Dominic with 2:1 odds that Obama will lose Arizona. He accepted. It would be worth two pints of beer to me to see McCain so thoroughly defeated, especi...

Toot's vote

This made me tear up. I just read this over at DKos that Barack Obama’s grandmother’s vote will be counted under Hawaii state law. Ms. Dunham’s absentee mail ballot was received and reviewed under the Hawaii standards for processing absentee mail ...

My Guess for Tomorrow

Obama 364 to McCain 174. Same as Karl Rove is predicting, perversely, except that I genuinely think that Georgia is going to flip, given the African-American turnout I’ve been reading about. Obama wins all of the Kerry states, plus CO, NM, FL, OH,...

Pre-Election Thoughts

Did you know that Obama can lose: Florida Virginia North Carolina Ohio Indiana and still win with 273 EV by picking up Colorado (7.1% ahead), Iowa (12.4% ahead) and New Mexico (9% ahead), as long as he retains all of the Kerry states. Of c...

It's really very simple

Just watch this, and compare it to the hate and vitriol coming from the opposing side. Who’s really working towards solutions? We are all Americans, and we all love this country. It’s as simple as that. </param></param></embed>

Swamped, lately

I’ve been swamped lately: I have one more update to the Slate Poll Tracker '08 that's mostly complete (it just requires some performance testing and enhancement). I am in the final stages of delivering an iPhone app to a startup that shall rema...

Thought of the day

Does Sean Hannity really believe his own bullshit?

Quote of the day

From Josh Marshall: When this is all over I do not know whether Obama and Biden will allow McCain to meet with his testicles without preconditions. Just checked the website, and apparently Josh has changed the text: After the election, in the inte...