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I can't imagine buying this lightweight biography of Barack Obama. I was interested to learn about the man's childhood and his rise to power, but found myself wanting a good deal more. For one thing, there's little critique at all. I'm an ardent Obama supporter, but I would have app...
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In a statement, the presidential candidate and his sister laud Dunham as 'a woman of extraordinary accomplishment.' She was 86. Madelyn Dunham, the grandmother of Democratic presidential candidate ...
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Via Megan McArdle (http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/arc hives/2008/11/distinctions_with_a_differ ence.php)
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In a statement, the presidential candidate and his sister laud Dunham as 'a woman of extraordinary accomplishment.' She was 86. Madelyn Dunham, the grandmother of Democratic presidential candidate ...
-- Circuit City plans to close 20% of its U.S. stores as it tries to figure out a way to turn a profit. AP via LAT -- Microsoft's twice-yearly Security Intelligence Report says that it's harder to find vulnerabilities in Windows, so malicious hackers are going after individ...
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2008-11-03  Green Left Infoasis
Green Party appeal to progressive, independent, antiwar voters: invest your vote in McKinney & Clemente on Election Day 2008: Greens are making a special appeal to progressive, independent and anti-war voters to vote for the ‘Green Imperative’ on November 4. (On the Wilder Side) No...
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With an historic Election Day coming tomorrow, it is increasingly clear that the McCain-Palin campaign’s ACORN-voter fraud endgame may be to use their relentless attacks as a justification for a wave of legal challenges to close election results in key states. Over the weekend,...
2008-11-03  Althouse
So sad that she didn't make it that last step! One immediately thinks of the famous line: "And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you."Very sad. Please: no conspiracy theories about the timing of the announcement of the death. blog advertising blog advertising
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2008-11-03  BlondeSense
Can you imagine a sadder thing? Barack Obama's grandmother passed away today, one day before the election. How very awful.
I think that a person who wants to be the president of the United States must be the kind of individual who is intelligent, well spoken and direct. I see those qualities in Barack Obama.I believe that a person who wants to be the president of the United States must be more than "the k...
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2008-11-03  MSNBC.com: Politics
Barack Obama radiated confidence and John McCain displayed the grit of an underdog Monday as the presidential rivals reached for the finish line of a two-year marathon with a burst of campaigning.
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2008-11-03  The Register
Philosophy, computing, and Republican desperation In a last-ditch attempt to spook credulous Americans into voting for John McCain, a Republican congressman and his brother-in-law have offered $10,000 to a software-wielding Oxford don, asking for proof that Barack Obama's memoir was wr...
2008-11-03  Crooks and Liars
I'm so sick of this freaking clown already. Of course everyone is entitled to their opinions, but this guy is a full-blown McCain surrogate now and McCain should be forced to repudiate this kind of divisive crap. ABC: "McCain has fought and bled for our country, loves our country," sa...
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The grandmother who helped raise Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama and whom he had credited with shaping his values has died of cancer, he said in a statement on Monday
2008-11-03  Greg Palast
Monday 03 November 2008 by: Greg Palast, t r u t h o u t | Perspective It's November 5 and the nation is in shock. Media blame it on the "Bradley effect": Americans supposedly turned into Klansmen inside the voting booth, and Barack Obama turned up with 6 million votes less than calcul...
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By now you may have seen some posts from several social media influencers (Peter Shankman, Chris Brogan, PSFK, Jason Falls among others) in the marketing and advertising field about Pepsi's innovative new campaign being dubbed by many the "Pepsi 25" for their choice of 25 bloggers to s...
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2008-11-03  SFist
This stencil was spotted near Cupid's Span (Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, 2003). We feel that Senator Obama’s surname is a boon for stenciling sloganeers, who are no doubt tired of the limited range of genital puns offered by the name of our current President. The astonish...
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2008-11-03  Front Page Stories
The nation's coal industry is in shock with word that Barack Obama plans to put such severe penalties on coal-fired power plants that it will bankrupt them.
2008-11-03  NPR Topics: Nation
Some Chicagoans will go to great lengths to get tickets to the Barack Obama event in Grant Park on election night. On Tuesday, 1 million people are expected to descend on Chicago's Grant Park where Obama will hold an election night rally. E-Mail This Add to Del.icio.us
2008-11-03  green LA girl
Vote (Even If They Say You Can’t). How to go prepared to troubleshoot, cast a provisional ballot, and report problems.Racists for Obama. Writes James Hannaham in Salon, “Plenty of white bigots will vote for Barack Obama on Tuesday. There are some things they fear more than ...
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The twentieth anniversary edition of the annual Rock for Kids Rock & Roll Charity Auction will take place December 5 at Chicago's Park West, with the aim of raising some coin for the city's homeless and underprivileged youngsters. Over the years, the Rock for Kids auction has raised mo...
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This book is a must have, I have recommended to all my friends and family. Kudos to the Author for publishing such a wonderful book.
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2008-11-03  Think Progress
Yesterday, the McCain campaign released an online advertisement that responded to Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-IL) criticism of its tax policy as “making a virtue of selfishness.” The ad — which featured a yellowed picture of a scowling Obama — misspelled the ...
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2008-11-03  Hotline On Call
BLOUNTVILLE, TN -- During his second stop of a marathon seven today, John McCain visited the border of two swing states and delivered a new message on energy independence. Just over the border from southwestern Virginia and less than thirty miles from northeastern North Carolina -- b...
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2008-11-03  Salon
Plenty of white bigots will vote for Barack Obama on Tuesday. There are some things they fear more than black people.
In the late 19th century, Jane Addams saw Gilded Age America as plainly carved into two halves. On the one hand were “the favored, who express[ed] their sense of the social obligation by gifts of money,” and on the other, “the unfavored who express[ed] it by clamoring for a “s...
On the eve of the 2008 U.S. presidential election, Barack Obama and John McCain are making final arguments to voters in key swing states. Intrade's presidential markets show Obama extending his advantage even as polls show a slight tightening. Overall Projection Barack Obama (364...
Washington Wire takes a look at what’s at stake in key House races. Easha Anand reports on the 2008 elections. The Situation: Freshman Rep. Carol Shea-Porter is one of the few Democrats who might be hurt by the focus on the economy. In 2006, she ran a shoestring campaign and ous...
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With only hours to go in their marathon race for the White House, Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain planned a last sprint through key battleground states Monday as some polls show a tightening contest.
Election '08: Before friendly audiences, Barack Obama speaks passionately about something called "economic justice." He uses the term obliquely, though, speaking in code — socialist code. During his NAACP speech earlier this month, Sen. Obama repeated the term at least...
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2008-11-03  LawPundit
On February 12, 2008 we predicted that Barack Obama would win the Democratic Party nomination for President of the United States, and he did.It is political centrists such as ourselves, who often swing back and forth between the candidates, who determine the outcome of these elections,...
2008-11-03  SOCIALIST UNITY
• Greens promote ten videos of McKinney speaking on major issues; Green leaders stress ‘Green Imperative’ of building a progressive US party • Obama and McCain don’t represent the views of millions who want real change in US politics; voters who seek a permanent alternative t...
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Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. (born August 4, 1961) is the junior United States Senator from Illinois and a candidate for the Democratic Party's nomination in the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Category: United States
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2008-11-03  The Rude Pundit
Closing Argument (Rude Version): Rise Up, Assholes, and Get Your Lives Back:One of the things that the last eight years, if not the last couple of decades, has demonstrated is that, with lots of exceptions, we have become a nation of assholes. Indeed, the story of contemporary America...
US presidential rivals John McCain and Barack Obama are giving one last push to secure votes with just a day to go until the election.Author: ITNTags: barack obama florida john mccain us election america voting white house democrats Posted: 03 November 2008Rating: 0.0Votes: 0
All the available evidence suggests that Barack Obama should cruise to a comfortable margin of victory tomorrow night. “Based on interviews with political strategists in both parties, election analysts and advisers to both presidential campaigns — including a detailed look at publi...
2008-11-03  Snarky Gossip
Watch the Boss and wife Patty Scialfa open up a campaign rally for Senator Barack Obama: How awesome is it to have Bruce Springsteen open for you? That’s enough to make the most die-hard Republican go Democrat. Tags: Barack Obama presidential campaign 2008, barack-obama, Bruc...
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Barack Obama radiated confidence and John McCain displayed the grit of an underdog Monday as the presidential rivals reached for the finish line of a two-year marathon with a burst of campaigning across battlegrounds from the Atlantic Coast to Arizona.
2008-11-03  The Osterley Times
It's so strange because I thought of her only today. It occurred to me that we hadn't heard any news and I thought she'll probably last long enough to find out if he's made it and then slip away.And then I come home tonight to this dreadful news.The grandmother of US candidate Barack O...
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Some Chicagoans will go to great lengths to get tickets to the Barack Obama event in Grant Park on election night. On Tuesday, 1 million people are expected to descend on Chicago's Grant Park where Obama will hold an election night rally. E-Mail This Add to Del.icio.us
2008-11-03  rc3.org
Here’s a collection of Barack Obama endorsements from blogs I read. I’ll be adding to the list through tomorrow. I’m still trying to decide whether to write a full endorsement. Andrew Sullivan John Scalzi Tim O’Reilly Linus Torvalds Karl Martino
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1984Somewhere (provided it wasn't destroyed in the fire--hmm.) my mom has a newspaper clipping from October 1984 in Sherborn, MA. The picture shows a group of people carrying homemade signs about the upcoming election. There's a little blonde girl, hair pulled back with barrettes, hold...
Harlem is abuzz with Barack Obama fever. Yet as the U.S. may be on the verge of electing its first African American president, the nation"s epicenter of black culture remains anxious about Obama"s prospects.
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2008-11-03  Gateway Pundit
Breaking: FOX News is reporting that... The McCain Campaign is VERY OPTIMISTIC with the latest developments.Carl Cameron who is traveling with the McCain Campaign says John McCain is the most optimistic as he has seen him in 14 years! IBD-TIPP still shows that nearly 10% of voters ...
2008-11-03  American Street
MSNBC just reported that Barack Obama’s grandmother died today. She was 86 and cancer took her. Thank you, Madelyn, for the gift of your grandson. I’m sure your grace and hard work will continue on through him.
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“[Obama] said he likes to go out trick-or-treating, but he can’t anymore. [...] He said he guessed he could have worn a Barack Obama mask.” America contains a strange dichotomy about teenage sex: "Social liberals in the country's 'blue states' tend to support sex educati...
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2008-11-03  The Paragraph
In Cleveland yesterday, 80,000 persons packed in and around Mall C for a rally for Barack Obama where Bruce Springsteen played and sang some songs. After the sing-along “This Land is Your Land”, Springsteen did a monologue, which led into “The Rising”, after w...
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2008-11-03  The Debate Link
Ezra Klein thinks the prevailing model of how racism might take the election away from Obama is non-sensical: It's one thing to build a mental model of a quietly racist electorate. Under this hypothesis, McCain, a war hero and credible candidate, would see unnatural levels of support a...
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2008-11-03  Fausta's Blog
My guest today was Mary Katherine Ham, who talked about her excellent article, written with Guy Benson and edited by Ed Morrissey, The comprehensive argument against Barack Obama. Don’t miss also Beware of Exit Polling…As Usual, The media has been chastened in the past by i...
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Sitting down at the internet cafe tonight, and still offline at the house for reasons more embarrassingly stupid than I care to list. It really couldn't have come at a worse time than slap-bang in the middle of the American election, which has careered wildly off the path of mild amus...
2008-11-03  Hanlon's Razor
No real introduction here, just that this is the kind of thing I’m talking about. I learned in just those three hours that this election is not about what we think of as the “big things.” It’s not about taxes. I’m pretty sure mine are going to go up no mat...
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2008-11-03  Balloon Juice
The CA GOP: Obama for America violated federal law by converting its campaign funds to Senator Obama’s personal use. Senator Obama recently traveled to Hawaii to visit his sick grandmother. This was the right thing for any grandson to do-at his own expense-but it was not travel...
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Barack Obama's grandmother has died of cancer, the Democratic presidential candidate said in a statement on Monday, a day before Americans were to decide whether the grandson she helped raise would be elected to the White House.
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3-3/4 in. x 7-1/2 in. Vinyl printed sticker showing your support for Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama and his running mate. Made in the USA.
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WELT ONLINEMcCain tries to turn must-win states; Obama stays on offenseCNN- 30 minutes agoBy Scott J. Anderson (CNN) -- As they enter their final day of campaigning before Election Day, Sen. John McCain is trying to swing undecided voters in key battleground states, while Sen. Barack ...
Supreme Disappointments Neither McCain nor Obama will nominate judges who understand the Constitution’s basic principle of individual rights. By Thomas A. Bowden No matter who wins the presidency--and with it, the power to appoint Supreme Court justices--America’s judiciary...
2008-11-03  Neatorama
Image: Tor Myhren / Grey NYC via thecoolhunter Grey NYC’s Creative director Tor Myhren came up with this brilliant poster to bring into the forefront what a lot of people have been thinking of, but couldn’t bring themselves to say in polite company: the issue of race in the...
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2008-11-03  OB Rag Blog
Barack and Michelle, the night he won the Oregon Primary,Tuesday, May 20, 2008, and also secured enough delegates to win the Democratic nomination. Obama Is the First Truly 21st Century Figure In American Politics By E. J. Dionne Jr. / The Washington Post / November 3, 2008 A good poli...
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WASHINGTON — Barack Obama leads John McCain nationally by 50-42 percent heading into the final hours of the 2008 presidential campaign, according to an Ipsos/McClatchy Poll released Monday.
A MOMENT IN THE SUN | November 2nd 2008 Barack Obama tries to pick off a red-state vote. The Economist's midwest correspondent mingles with the Nebraska natives ... From ECONOMIST.COM It is a bright afternoon in Omaha, with yellow trees set against an azure sky and a strong wind ...
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Awww, poor thing. Bob Krumm was all giddy that Barack Obama was trailing John McCain in the latest Zogby (one day) poll. Oh, but wait, not so much...Obama has consolidated his lead over McCain. His single day lead today was back to 52%-42%. He leads by 10 among independents and has s...
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Barack Obama is swamping John McCain in a national mock election among students from kindergarten through college age. The students have been successful in calling the winners in at least the past three elections: Bill Clinton in 1996, and George Bush in 2000 and 2004. Msnbc.com's Bill...
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2008-11-02  Maggie's Notebook
A personal message from Radarsite: Fox News is the only cable news channel that I can bear to watch these days. But lately I find I can only watch portions of it. I can no longer tolerate those smiley upbeat newscasters, grinning their way through their election coverage as though the...
As of last Friday, the number of Nobel Laureates endorsing Barack Obama for president has risen to 76, saying Obama will end Bush-era trashing of scientific research, integrity, and competitiveness. In an open letter (pdf), the Laureates cite the politicization of science under the Bus...
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Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. (born August 4, 1961) is the junior United States Senator from Illinois and a candidate for the Democratic Party's nomination in the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Category: United States
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Wow. Last night’s Saturday Night Live was … well, not so funny. SNL - Smooching Butt To Power Or, actually it WAS funny, but not funny “ha ha.” The opening sketch, Tina Fey as Sarah Palin with the actual John McCain going on QVC because McCain didn’t have...
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All day long, I've been hearing the same report. In areas where Barack Obama is popular, Mark Kirk is sending his canvassers out in Obama gear, t-shirts and buttons. This is the same Mark Kirk who has been a major fundraiser for John McCain, even before his nomination by the party. T...
2008-11-02  RADARSITE
A personal message from Radarsite: Fox News is the only cable news channel that I can bear to watch these days. But lately I find I can only watch portions of it. I can no longer tolerate those smiley upbeat newscasters, grinning their way through their election coverage as though the...
2008-11-02  Politics1
JUST ONE DAY TO GO... P2008. Vice President Dick Cheney announced his endorsement of John McCain during a campaign speech in Wyoming on Saturday. The Barack Obama campaign immediately turned around a TV spot by Sunday morning touting the Cheney endorsement. McCain, meanwhile, appeared...
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After an evening rally at Winona State University, Al spent Thursday with Congressman Tim Walz, Sen. Tarryl Clark and former Congressman Rick Nolan from the Obama campaign, barnstorming southern Minnesota to encourage DFL volunteers to work hard to Get-Out-The-Vote. They started the da...
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2008-11-02  What Do I Know?
Apparently The Boss—Bruce Springsteen—is in Ohio with Barack Obama. He went to Cleveland for Kerry in '04, and we all know what happened then. I've never dug Springsteen, but apparently he holds great appeal among my people. If Ohio puts Obama over the top at 12:30 GMT on...
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2008-11-02  About.com Puzzles
The votes are in and Obama has won hands down. McCain wasn't even close. You might say it was unanimous. We would rather have Barack Obama than John McCain. And what's...
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2008-11-02  Metro News
Barack Obama would have been a better bet than your 401K. Here's the bottom line: A $100 wager placed on Obama on Oct. 30, 2007 - back when he was just another Democratic hopeful traversing Iowa - was worth $1,278 yesterday at Intrade.com, one of the most popular online bookies.
2008-11-02  TRENDSnIFF
Reuters - Following are major policies toward Asia of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and Republican rival John McCain, as published on campaign Web sites, party platforms and speeches: Barack Obama - U.S. ALLIANCES - Vows to maintain strong U.S. military and strengthen ...
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2008-11-02  Liberal Rage (tm)
And I found today's inspiration: Dear History by Saul Williams:Dear History... I have walked through your museums wondering how it is that greatness has lived and died all before my time. ...Dear History, we no longer believe in you. We have invested our beliefs into the present time,...
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This book has received a lot of scrutiny from Obama's detractors since he ran for president. It has also disappointed a lot of his fans. This was written when Obama was much younger than he is now, so it should be read as a memoir about a reflection on family, race, identity. The book...
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2008-11-02  Spontaneous Arising
Or are we so stunted that we crave, deep down inside, an authoritarian dictatorship in the Republican mold?Former Nixon cabinet member John Dean pretty much speaks for me with regard to these questions (emphasis mine):Frankly, the fact that the pre-election polls are close - after ei...
Strategic threat or law enforcement problem? In John McCain’s final scramble for votes last week, there was a revealing moment in Tampa Bay, when he seemed to dismiss the economic crisis that will probably take a decade to fix, and urge undecided voters to instead focus on what ...
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2008-11-02  antiracismdsa
Latinos have been stepping up across the nation to help bring the change we need.They know Barack Obama wants to make sure Washington is working for every community, and making the long-overdue changes in education, health care, immigration, and economic opportunity that will help our ...
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2008-11-02  Behind the Numbers
Sen. Barack Obama holds a sizable advantage over John McCain just two days before the longest and most expensive presidential campaign in history comes to a close. After nearly two years of ads, rallies, debates and barnstorming, Obama is up 54 to 43 percent among likely voters, in the...
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Dialog International joins The New York Times, The Anchorage Daily News, The Portland Press Herald, The Economist, and 240 other major publications (so far) in endorsing Barack Obama for President of the United States. I just reread my post from February 11, 2007, when Obama announced ...
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2008-11-01  Boondoggle B-side
These past months, Obama has become the archetype of the e-marketeer. But what Al Gore is doing on a smaller scale on wecansolveit.org, the platform of his movement to fight global warming, is as brilliant. Every fundraiser is confronted with the question of how to give return to sp...
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Last night, during nightly bedtime snuggle time with my 4-1/2-year-old son, Jason asked me, “Why does Grandma wear dark glasses?” Grandma and Grandpa are much on Jason’s mind. He’s looking forward to flying on an airplane this weekend to see them in Quincy, Florida, twenty-on...
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Will be in Kisumu for local US election coverage. The capital in the Kenyan home land of Barack Obama’s father is warming up for the elections. T Shirts and caps with his image are for sale on every street corner, and almost all the peope are gearing for the long awaited 4th of N...
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2008-11-01  Mathew Gross blogs
Interesting: Akhil Reed Amar, a professor of law and political science at Yale... raised the possibility that the 2008 election could be remembered as the fifth "pivot point" election in the presidency's 219-year history. In Amar's reading, history was changed and the United States was...
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Presidential election mementos are highly collectible, with some contenders -- JFK, FDR and Obama, for instance -- hotter than others (What do you mean you don't want a Nixon button?). The votes are ...
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. . .for it is neatly defined for all to see in Barack Obama's instant classic, THE AUDACITY OF HOPE. Verily, we see audacity, and we have hope, because we have heard Obama speak; and because he speaks we have change; and because we have change we have the audacity to hope--of hope. ...
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2008-11-01  Fact-esque
The blogworld has finally had an effect on news interviewers. It took a few years but they're starting to call the right wing on their gossip-mongering and free-form, proof-free accusations. Here's the video, care of TMiss, that you've probably already seen (just in case...
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Gay topics not seen as wedge issue as in 2004 Sen. John McCain won endorsement from the gay Log Cabin Republicans, while other national gay groups lined up solidly behind Sen. Barack Obama. (Photo by AP)
2008-10-31  Latinopundit
(Cross-posted at Telling Stories.) This is what "Talkie Sarah" Palin said today: Palin told WMAL-AM that her criticism of Obama's associations, like those with 1960s radical Bill Ayers and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, should not be considered negative attacks. Rather, for reporters or c...
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2008-10-31  Ablogistan
Here's Palin defending her attacks on Obama's associations with Ayers, Wright, etc., and blaming the media for portraying comments like "he pals around with terrorists" as negative: "If [the media] convince enough voters that that is negative campaigning, for me to call Barack Obama ou...
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Just some interesting articles to read: Rupert Murdoch says that if Obama is elected, it could worsen our financial crisis. For all of you who are still clinging to the hope that Obama was not born in the US … give it up. The state of Hawaii has now confirmed the authenticity ...
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WorldNetDaily (but not Aaron Klein) finally reported al Qaeda's endorsement of John McCain -- but buried in an article claiming al Qaeda endorses Barack Obama even more.A Nov. 1 WND article by Ryan Mauro ("founder and chief editor of WorldThreats.com") claimed there has been more t...
2008-11-03  blogHillary
Must Read: Hillary wrote the following article for the New York Daily News. By Hillary Clinton On Tuesday, New Yorkers and Americans have a big decision to make. Do we continue to pursue the policies of the past eight years or do we chart a new course? I believe we can and we must...
2008-11-02  Queer Notes
I just want to get this out of my system before John McCain gets his ass handed over to him by Barack Obama on Tuesday:SHAME ON YOU JOHN McCAIN!SHAME ON YOU FOR:Picking Sarah Palin! You said you would pick the MOST QUALIFIED person who could be PRESIDENT!You said she was the “best p...
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2008-11-01  terrette
I do not have the time before November 4th to present a fully reasoned endorsement for Barack Obama. This is partly because I have many other responsibilities before me and partly because the reasons for the choice are too numerous to be explained in a few words. However, it seems to m...
Many good things come from my native Kansas, but without a doubt, one of the best is grandmothers.  To hear the news that Barack Obama's grandmother Madelyn Dunham died, just hours before the grandson she helped raise could be elected President of the United States is heart-breaking ...
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2008-11-03  James Fallows
I am away from a computer most of the time now*. But there's a TV droning in the background, which for the last two hours has been on MSNBC. During that period, I have seen at least three, maybe four, times a voice-of-doom style TV spot about Barack Obama and Rev. Wright. It opens wit...
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2008-11-03  An American Gothic
Gallup The final Gallup 2008 pre-election poll -- based on Oct. 31-Nov. 2 Gallup Poll Daily tracking -- shows Barack Obama with a 53% to 42% advantage over John McCain among likely voters. When undecided voters are allocated proportionately to the two candidates to better appro...
2008-11-03  BlogHer
Let me tell you why it is so important to support Barack Obama. An accident three months ago took the life of my husband and left me with severe injuries. As a physician and gynecologist I was trained to care for patients. What I was not trained to do was to BE a patient and to go thr...
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Please JOIN US tomorrow afternoon as we begin liveblogging the election results and election day news from across the nation. A final push is underway in California and across the nation to defeat Proposition 8. Here is another huge update about rallies that happened over the weeken...
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This is Change we certainly can do without.Now, Obama has earned the right to be rebuffed on November 4.As they say in the movies: “Now, it’s personal.”Barrack Hussein Obama. First off, allow me to express condolences on the loss of your grandmother. I’m sure your minions will ...
we don't need to say "United States presidential election" when we've already said "United States Senator", do we? Besides, there's no "United States" in the same link in the McCain blurb. ← Previous revision Revision as of 23:03, November 3, 2008 ...
2008-11-03  A Stitch in Haste
I saw little point in writing a (non-)endorsement blogpost this election. I had at one point contemplated writing a post along the lines of, "Why I Condone Voting for Barack Obama," but I'm no longer sure that I actually do condone it. Here were the bullet points: Supreme Court R...
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2008-11-03  Pirate's Cove
This headline from CNN certainly has to be a contender for the funniest of the week: Palin knocks Obama over months-old coal comments. Coming from an arm of the liberal media who has delved into Bush’s TANG service and drunk driving incidents, decades old, as well as McCain̵...
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Some regard casting a ballot for Barack Obama as a victory for diversity, an atonement for past sins and a catalyst for racial healing. But they say race is one of many reasons for their preference. ...
2008-11-03  NDN Blog - NDN Blog
Atlantic Media's Ron Brownstein, one of Washington's smartest reporters, talked to David Gregory earlier today on MSNBC's "Race to the White House." Gregory talked to Brownstein about U.S. Sen. Barack Obama's efforts to target African-Americans, Latinos and others in the race and...
, 2008 , 21st , Atlantic , David , End , Hispanic , Key , Millennials , NDN , New , New , Race , Ron
History B001FTE97A
Barack Obama Wall Calendar: Featuring the most moving and memorable words of Barack Obama, together with voices of other men and women who inspired generations, this collection chronicles human rights breakthroughs in American history and the landmark events that united us as a nation....
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By Gina Chon Iraqis have an obvious personal stake in who becomes the next president of the United States. In my discussions with Iraqi officials and average residents in recent weeks, I’ve heard many views about how the political system works in America. As the security pact negoti...
, Iraq
2008-11-03  ie:missional
I have a good friend who simply cannot believe that any clear thinking American would vote for Barack Obama for president. In fact, he issued a challenge for someone–anyone–to give him a convincing reason to vote for the Illinois senator. Few took him up on the offer. I...
, Culture , Economy , Life , News , Politics , Barack , Democratic , George , government , John , Republican
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2008-11-03  Wash Park Prophet
Johnny Munkhammar, a European free market advocate, argues in the Rocky today, in an op-ed column not available on line, that the Dutch model for universal health care is one for the U.S. to follow. Basically, he is arguing that universal health care is good, but that private insurers...
, Health
2008-11-03  Belmont Club
Five writers imagine the day after somebody wins the election. Some imagine an Obama victory, others a McCain win. One writer imagined that neither did, not really. “I thought I was the only one, but later, on the news, they’d reported I wasn’t, that thousands of us h...
, Uncategorized
Babalu contributors Henry Gomez and Mike Pancier inform readers in posts today that they are both going to be out watching for voter fraud at South Florida polling locations tomorrow.Today, in a post entitled, "Is Obama Cuban?", babalu's Val Prieto relates "unverified, unattributed" [a...
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Sushil Cheema reports: Getty Images Do renters vote differently than homeowners? In a new survey conducted by Apartments.com, a site that provides apartment listings, a majority of renters said they were planning on voting for Barack Obama. Of the 1,110 renters surveyed, about 96% ...
, Data , Global
2008-11-03  Blog Me No Blogs
.MCCAIN WAS NOT BORN IN THIS COUNTRY; PALIN WANTS OUTWHY WON'T MCSAME SHOW HIS BIRTH CERTIFICATE? WHERE IS IT? IS IT ON PAPER, OR PAPYRUS?YOUTUBE"Cafferty File: McCain Not U.S. Citizen?"CNN says McCain's eligibility is questionable.YOUTUBE"Sarah Palin and the Alaska Independence Party....
, traitors , John , natural-born , McBush , President , Manchurian , secessionist , President , ineligible , citizen , foreign-born , President , Senor
2008-11-03  Blog Fabulous
Tomorrow is Election Day. I’m the Alternate Election Judge in my precinct. I’m can’t wear campaign paraphernalia - but, I will be wearing dog tags bearing the name of a real woman who never had the right to vote. This has been a banner year for women - all women - a...
, Fabulous , barack-obama , election-2008 , Hillary-Clinton , john-mccain , sarah
2008-11-03  The Jaded Prole
A once prominent Republican, John Dean speaks out about authoritarian Republicans and the continuing danger they pose to the US and world. He knows up close and through much experience how these slimy bastards operate and lays out their basic traits as well as the traits of their foll...
2008-11-03  7:10 to Tokyo
Copyright 2008 billywest. Visit the original article at http://sevententotokyo.com/2008/11/all-o ver-but-the-celebrating/.…ThatR 17;s if the polls are any kind of accurate indicator of who’s ahead in the race. It’s one day to Election Day, and there’s no doubt in my mi...
, 7:10 , Headline , Barack , Japan , John , US , voting
2008-11-03  Newshoggers.com
By BJ Polls will start closing in less than 24 hours, and barring Supreme (Court) intervention, Barack Obama will be named the victor a few short hours later. But to follow up on Cernig’s post below, the right is most certainly not looking to take defeat lightly. Rather, they are ...
, Moron , Republicans , ACORN , Conspiracy , Voter
Sundown for Colorado Fundamentalists Salon.com's Mike Madden attended the New Life evangelical Christian church in Colorado Springs yesterday and filed a report that considers the waning political power of religious fundamentalists in America on the eve of the 2008 election.  New L...
, Real , Election , Sexuality , STI/HIV/AIDS , abstinence-only , AIDS , Colorado , evangelicals , HIV , New , Religion , religious , religious , Sex , teen , teens , television , TV , youth
2008-11-03  Wise Startup Blog
Barack Obama would be winning in a landslide if he was all white? I’m not sure, you tell me. Either way, he is a great leader, a great speaker, and going to be the new President of the United... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, a...
, Everything , elections , mccain , obama
Seems to be that time of year, doesn’t it? For starters, here’s my electoral college map: If you haven’t tried out the “Create Your Own Map” feature at Real Clear Politics, you definitely should. Click on the map above to give it a try. Also, here are m...
, Personal
As I rise early on October 4, 2008, to get to the polls on the way to court, I will still be kicking myself for my own role, through inaction, in our having a two-party-dominated underdemocratic/barely democratic Tweedledum-Tweedledee political system. The tealeaves do not show that Ob...
, Constitutional
2008-11-03  FREEDOM EDEN
Barack Obama doesn't do what's right. He does what is politically expedient. Says Nadler: “I have no personal knowledge of what I'm about to say. What I'm about to say is my guess...”Hoo boy.“My guess,” Nadler said, “knowing how politics works, what I'm about to say is not pa...
, Barack , Election , House
2008-11-03  Salon: War Room
Here at Salon, come election time we organize a staff pool, asking everyone for their predictions of the results. This year, we're opening it up to the readers, and one lucky winner among you will receive a free one-year subscription to Salon. The questions you'll need to answer to en...
blir USA:s näste president och kommer att flytta in i Vita huset i början av nästa år. Så tror många - men inte alla. Egentligen vet vi inte hur det blir, men enligt oppinionsundersökningarna leder Barack Obama över John McCain och detta skulle då vara en fingervisning att d...
So the African Press International canceled its deal with Fox News to broadcast the tapes of the Michelle Obama phone call. Willikers! Only a few hours left for the "Whitey Tape" to emerge, along with definitive proof of Barack Obama's marital infidelity and evidence of Bill Ayers' a...
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Just one week before Madelyn Dunham died from cancer, Barack Obama's half sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, spoke to Usmagazine.com about their grandmother's strength. "Our grandmother has been the North Star for this family, the spot where each of us, busy in our separate and far-flung endeavo...
, Barack , News
Traffic lights and street signs in North Carolina are being turned into political signs in a campaign developed by Boone, Oakley. Cutout Obama logo decals are being distributed for brave Obama supporters to use on Government property. The agency is distributing the decals for free on G...
, Ambient , Inspiration , Print , Barack , Boone , Political
2008-11-03  MSNBC.com: Politics
Barack Obama's ailing grandmother died Monday in Hawaii, a day before Obama was to stand election for the presidency, his campaign announced.
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2008-11-03  Modern March
In case you live under a rock, you know that the Presidential Election is tomorrow. As a Christian, I think politics are vastly the opposite of everything Jesus ever taught and are evil to the core, however they are a reality and we must accept that government is the only thing that ca...
, Commentary , 1 , 2008 , abortion , Apostle , Barack , candidate , Christ , Christianity , church , divison , election , evangelism , faith , God , Gospel , government , healthcare , Jesus , John , McCain , Obama , Paul , Pharisees , politics , president , presidential , religion , vote , voting
2008-11-03  Think Progress
Barack Obama and his sister Maya Soetoro-Ng have released this statement: It is with great sadness that we announce that our grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, has died peacefully after a battle with cancer. She was the cornerstone of our family, and a woman of extraordinary accomplishment, ...
, Think , Obama
2008-11-03  Salon: War Room
Madelyn Dunham, Barack Obama's grandmother, died Monday, just one day before the nation goes to the polls to decide whether to elect her grandson president. Last month, the Democratic nominee had taken time off from the trail to visit her, expressing concern about her failing health. ...
2008-11-03  Infidel753
Hard-core Obama cultists will, of course, studiously avoid reading or viewing anything that might undeceive them. For anyone else who is reading this, though, some reminders on key points:(1) Barack Obama is not legitimately the Democratic nominee. His followers stole the nomination fr...
One of my blogging regrets this election season is I haven't posted more about local politics in my home state . While New York is a reliable blue state and safely in Obama's column, my fellow progressive New Yorkers should remember two things about tomorrow.1. Control of the state sen...
, New , Workers
2008-11-03  Red vs. Blue Blog
Republican John McCain is telling voters in Pennsylvania he knows momentum for his campaign is there. Polls show Democratic rival Barack Obama comfortably ahead in the state, but McCain isn't giving up on trying to win its 21 electoral votes. I guess either denial and/or dementia is no...
, John , denial , swing , Pennsylvania , dementia , McCain-
2008-11-03  Latest Articles
LEE'S SUMMIT — Democrat vice presidential candidate Joe Biden made a last-minute pitch for swing-state Missouri on Monday, vowing that he and Barack Obama would "re-establish the middle class" by focusing on job creation and helping homeowners facing foreclosure. "For too many fa...
Over at The Campaign Spot, Jim Geraghty observes that all Barack Obama’s promises have an expiration date:  “Consumers should be aware that promises, pledged, and soul-healing rhetoric are only effective for a limited time; upon expiration they become ‘just words.&...
, Array
2008-11-03  1 Boring Old Man
Tomorrow by: William Rivers Pitt, t r u t h o u t | Perspective A thing is about to happen which has not happened since the Elder Days. - J.R.R. Tolkien It has been a long and terrible time since tomorrow mattered as much as it does today. It began with that first ter...
, politics
In February, 2007, David Broder -- the Dean of the Washington Press Corps -- announced that "President Bush is poised for a political comeback" and "is demonstrating political smarts that even his critics have to acknowledge."Today, his own paper, The Washington Post, documented how...
2008-11-02  The Wide Awakes
As I mentioned previously Larry Sinclair has posted the documents, phone transcript and affadvits from the Berg Filing in the Berg v. Obama case; including the phone transcript of the conversation with Sarah Obama where she reasserts that she was present when Barack Obama was born. It ...
, General , Cao
These are not all random samples of the same population of likely voters: Nate Silver comments: FiveThirtyEight.com: Electoral Projections Done Right: The Cellphone Effect, Continued: These are Barack Obama's leads in the likely voter models.... The polls in the Cingular-...
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2008-11-02  Smart Mobs
The possibilities of a ‘portable eye’ Inventor says device for blind has much broader uses. When Peter Alan Smith pulls out his phone in a crowded Back Bay restaurant, there’s no clue that his Nokia is by far the most expensive mobile phone in the entire place. He ha...
, How
2008-11-02  Stubborn Facts -
David Frum makes his case for John McCain. He has some entirely valid points in there, but I must respectfully disagree, as I'm for Obama. Frum's a first-class guy though, and proves that he is above the fray with this: This is a great and greatly enduring country. It flourishes becaus...
, 2008 , BOTJ , Centrism , Politics
2008-11-02  The Corner Booth
This election is historic, fast-paced, and crazy. I like to add fuel to the fire every now and then, so here we go—The Corner Booth’s Election ‘08 Endorsement-palooza! Barack Obama, Democratic Nominee for President For those who read my blog, this is no surprise. ...
, Politics , al , Barack , bruce , Election , elizabeth , Joe , John , kay , kentucky , minnesota , mitch , north , President , Sarah , senate , separation
All apologies for the light posting today. As it turns out, the first year of law school is not especially designed with blogging and election years in mind, even for a slacker like myself. Time's online outfit takes a look at Indiana's development into a hotbed for presidential politi...
2008-11-02  Political Realm
Remember to check out our YouTube channel, Political Realm TV, which now has over 220 subscribers and more than 1700 videos.Both Barack Obama and John McCain released ads in recent days that can be accurately described as their closing messages of the campaign. "Something's happening ...
, John , Barack , PRES , Ad
2008-11-02  Greg Palast
by Greg Palast No question, Mr. Bruce was my favorite teacher in junior high. I went to this Loser-ville school in the San Fernando Valley.  It was all Chicano kids and working class white losers like me.  Everyone had to take 'metal shop' so we could work the bottom-end jobs in the ...
, Articles
2008-11-02  The REAL McCain
McCain supporter Charles David Ficken descended upon an Obama rally in Raleigh, North Carolina with a 10-foot tall picture of Barack Obama in East African attire, shouting the United States doesn’t need a “Muslim-leaning” person for president. While exercising his fre...
, Uncategorized
2008-11-01  Oil Wars
The post regarding how likely Venezuela is to weather the current economic crisis gave rise to some discussion on the United States and how its working class was likely to fare. So even though it is completely off topic for this blog I thought I'd give my views on the problems of the w...
I woke up early this morning and it did not take long for the tears to come. Four years ago, I was numb at this point. After almost fifteen straight months of daily and nightly work, of writing and editing and researching and arguing and convincing and listening, there was really no ...
2008-11-01  Sharp Sand
I voted against Nixon; I voted against Reagan; I voted against both Bushes — this time, while I’m voting against McCain, I am also voting for Barack Obama. That’s a good feeling. Update: Josh Corey’s eloquent call to vote for Barack Obama.
, Personal , Politics , bush , Carter , Clinton , McGovern , Nixon , Obama , Reagan
2008-11-01  Phronesisaical
OMG!'I Would Make A Bad President,' Obama Says In Huge Campaign BlunderTALLAHASSEE, FL—In a campaign gaffe that could potentially jeopardize Sen. Barack Obama's White House bid, the Democratic presidential nominee told nearly 8,000 supporters Tuesday that, if elected, he would be a t...
2008-10-31  unbrainwashed
In a typical display of the socialism that has defined his campaign, Friday night Barack Obama took his daughter door-to-door looking for handouts in his Chicago neighborhood. His daughter, barely disguised as the Corpse Bride of capitalistic democracy as they walked hand-in-hand. Sen...
, humor , satire
2008-10-31  SEIU
Andy Stern and Anna Burger to Mobilize SEIU Members and Voters in Final GOTV Push for Obama and Senate Candidates Franken and Merkley Washington, D.C.--SEIU President Andy Stern and Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger will hit the campaign trail this weekend in a final push to win key ba...
, andy , anna , barack , congress , illinois , indiana , minnesota , missouri , ohio , oregon , press , releases
2008-10-31  American Insurgency
In a typical display of the socialism that has defined his campaign, Friday night Barack Obama took his daughter door-to-door looking for handouts in his Chicago neighborhood. His daughter, barely disguised as the Corpse Bride of capitalistic democracy as they walked hand-in-hand. Sen...
, humor , satire
2008-10-31  Power to the People
They steal elections! Don’t they? States Rights Rot Rides AgainBy ‘bro.zayid’They steal elections, don’t they…They stole the2000 election in Florida for ‘Dubya by roadblocking Black and Latino voting districts, by using confusing ballots, the so-called ‘hanging chads’, ...
For the entirety of this rant, I’m putting on my Jon Stewart salt-and-pepper wig and shifting into US Election mode. There might be a project management theme or two. Understand that I’m not in the election mode so deeply that I’ll make a promise I can’t keep. But hopefully...
, Barack , Politics , Elections , John , Joseph , Sarah , Value , DanS , Politics , Work , leadership , examples , Satire , Humour , Job
2008-11-03  All Over the Board
Original article, a perspective from Patrick Martin, via World Socialist Web Site:In the run-up to Election Day, with polls pointing to a lopsided victory by the Democratic Party, both Barack Obama and leading congressional Democrats are making it clear in advance that a popular repudi...
, Barack , Neoliberalism , John , Bob , Capitalism's
Welcome to the 28th edition of the Carnival of Divided Government- The special "Scary Halloween Edition" . As explained in earlier editions, we have adopted Latin ordinal numeration to impart a patina of gravitas reflecting the historical importance of the series. In this, the Carn...
, 2008 , CODGOV , John , Barack , blog , divided , David
2008-11-03  The Common Ills
Monday, November 3, 2008. Chaos and violence continue, the treaty is still iffy, Syria still wants answers, Article 50 comes back . . . maybe, a Democrat 'explains' Barack's mentor, and more. Starting with the treaty masquerading as a Status Of Forces Agreement. Sameer N....
2008-11-03  Wired: Threat Level
It's easy to forget the special significance that Barack Obama's presidential run has in many voters' minds, given the length of the 2008 presidential campaign. But this YouTube video from an African-American voter in North Carolina is a reminder that for many, Obama's candidacy is ...
, Election
2008-11-03  Stop The ACLU
-By Warner Todd Huston From Beirut, Chawki Freiha reports* on a provocative editorial that appeared in the Al Quds Al Arabi newspaper on November 3 written by Abdelbari Atwan, the first journalist to have met with Osama bin Laden. Titled “Obama’s Historic Intifada,” Atwan praises...
, Barack , Domestic , Elections , Islam , Islamicfascism , Israel , Liberal , Middle , News , War , military
2008-11-03  Shopfloor
There are few things less appealing than a bullying, self-righteous newspaper editor, scolding politicians  and the public. Case in point: Phil Bronstein, editor at large at the San Francisco Chronicle, responding to Gov. Sarah Palin and various commentators criticizing the paper for ...
, Energy , Media , clean , coal , Phil , San
2008-11-03  Top of the Ticket
Barack Obama's grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, died late Sunday night after a battle with cancer, his campaign announced today. She was 86. According to Obama spokeswoman Jen Psaki, Dunham died at her home in Hawaii. Obama found out about her death a little after 8 a.m. this morning,...
, Cancer , Democratic , Family
2008-11-03  Iowa Independent
A new robocall in Iowa and several battleground states from the campaign of Republican presidential nominee John McCain uses a quote from Democrat Barack Obama’s former rival for his party’s nomination, Sen. Hillary Clinton. In the recording, Clinton praises McCain and crit...
, Blog , Campaigns , Barack , Hillary , John , President
I am so sick of hearing the innuendo that if you are not voting for Obama then you are a racist.  I don’t subscribe to this thinking. This video is a little long but a young man translates Obama’s rhetoric for the Everyday Man. This young man sure has a lot of energy and h...
, Barack , News , Politics , economy , Healthcare , veterans
2008-11-03  Capitol Watchblog
Okay, it’s almost time to count the votes. That means it’s time for predictions. So here goes. PRESIDENT—Indiana is a real toss-up, with Barack Obama having the best chance to win it for the Democrats for the first time in 44 years. But it would really be only a historical ...
, '08 , '08 , '08 , Andre , Barack , consolidation , Gabrielle , jill , john , Mitch
2008-11-03  Nitpicker
Sadly, No! highlights the nuttiness over at Free Republic, where one would expect people to be crazy and accuse Obama of somehow timing his grandmother's death. It's also bad over at the Big Tent of Bias, where Kenny "Shitty Sideburns" Shepherd thinks Joe Klein goes overboard in highli...
Israelis Favor McCain, Iranians Prefer Obama By Bob McCarty at BobMcCarty.com Barack Obama has, according to many news accounts about the 2008 presidential race, won the love and admiration of many people around the world. Perhaps more worthwhile than the results of any global opinion...
, INFORMATION , Barack , countries , foreign , Iran , Israel , John , polls , prefer , voters , world
2008-11-03  THE LIBERAL JOURNAL
Obama at a rally today while speaking of his grandmother's death. Photo: Wall Street JournalI was at the gym, on the treadmill actually, watching CNN when the news was reported that Obama's grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, or "Toot" as he referred to her, passed away. It was shocking and s...
, Barack , 2008
From the APBarack Obama's grandmother, whose personality and bearing shaped much of the life of the Democratic presidential contender, has died, Obama announced Monday, one day before the election. Madelyn Payne Dunham was 86. Obama announced the news from the campaign trail in Charlot...
On the eve of the elections, the world is atwitter - and Morocco is no exception. Bloggers based in Morocco - both Moroccan natives and foreign residents - are musing over potential election outcomes. While Morocco is also no exception to the world's preference for Obama, blogger...
, Humor , International , Middle , Morocco , Politics , Weblog , Youth
2008-11-03  Priyanka Writing
 My stand on the American elections is clear...  the choices are Barack and Obama. :)I don't know whether this joke is funny. But well I remember cracking Dumbya man jokes when I was much younger and then Bush declared war on Iraq. I stopped reading newspapers that day cause until th...
, news , society
On the last night of the campaign, Barack Obama appeared on a show called "Ask Obama," answering the questions of viewers of MTV. While nobody asked boxers or briefs, the defining question of the Clinton campaign, the subject of underwear did come up. It came in question from Eric Snyd...
, Politics
Obama on track for EC win... maintaining national lead... seven points ahead... Obama's lead stable.... solid lead... rethugs scrambling... significant lead... 17 points ahead in Iowa... five in Colorado... ahead in Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania...Barring an extraordinary shock, Bara...
2008-11-03  Ragebot
Is Barack Obama the ‘change agent’ he purports to be? He’s not going to be able to heal the rift between the left and right, that’s for sure—any more than Ronald Reagan was really the ‘Great Communicator’. (Reagan was only a communicator for peo...
, Elections , Personal , Politics
2008-11-03  Commentary
If you’re a sports fan like me, the coming of Election Day probably feels a lot like the end of baseball season. So, just as they do in baseball for the MVP and Cy Young Awards, it seems only natural to select this electoral season’s superlatives before a winner is officia...
, Contentions
Obama's grandmother dies of cancer in Hawaii Mon Nov 3, 2008 4:40pm EST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's grandmother died of cancer, he said in a statement on Monday, a little more than a week after Obama interrupted the White House race t...
, News
Hello Papamoka Bloggers - I usually write about a bit of news, but this morning I'm just going to rave about Barack Obama, and encourage you to vote for him and Joe Biden tomorrow.I know it's practically impossible that an undecided voter would be reading this blog, but I'm going to ta...
, Barack
Princeton economist Alan B. Krueger has a post up on the New York Times Economix blog looking at "Economics and the Science of Voter Turnout." He cited a previous column he had written summarizing the research conclusions of Yale political scientists Donald P. Green and Alan S. Gerber...
2008-11-02  Linus' blog
So I'm pretty well-known for not exactly being a huge fan of the FSF and Richard Stallman, despite the fact that I obviously love the GPLv2 and use it as the license for all my projects that I care about.The reason has always been that I don't like single-issue people, nor do I think t...
2008-11-02  Advance Indiana
Indiana is a leading coal producing state, but if Sen. Barack Obama has his way, he will bankrupt the industry just like Sen. Joe Biden suggested in a rope line during a campaign stop in Ohio a few weeks back. It seems that Sen. Obama is more candid when he's in San Francisco than anyw...
2008-11-02  Should've Asked Me
With Election Day almost here, it's time to look back... back at the horse's ass we call Joe Scarborough. If Halloween dress-up left you wanting more, why not spend Election Day pretending to be Joe? It will really liven up your returns-watching party, and even better, may drown out ...
2008-11-02  Contrary Brin
Fresh back from an exhausting trip east (to speak at MIT and IBM about the future of information technologies), I have only time to toss in a little last-minute "ostrich bait." I do hope to get in one last philosophical musing before the American People -- led by a new and potent and ...
2008-11-02  ruhlman.com
Help end the 8-year fiasco with a resounding vote for Barack Obama. While we don't know much about where the candidates stand on food issues, nicely pointed out here by Jeff Houck of the Tampa Tribune, we do know that Obama's stances on all important issues, including his not raising ...
2008-10-31  static{fade}
In his interview with Rachel Maddow, Barack Obama addresses the role technology will play in an Obama administration:"One of the things that I'm excited about is to transfer what we've learned from this campaign in using technology, into government. I mean, there are huge areas where w...
, tech , barack , politics
When he is in Pennsylvania or Ohio, Sen. Barack Obama is the ultimate populist. But when he is in the affluent sections of Florida? The so-called wealth-spreader senator reveals an affinity for the wealthy. Associated Press Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. sp...
, Politics
It's 11:59 and no sign of the big dog. We're at the Bank United Center at University of Miami. It's Sunday night, thirty-six hours until nationwide polls open, and this is McCain's last appearance in south Florida. McCain is supposed to go on at 12:15, but he's flying in from New Hamps...
2008-11-03  Dissident Voice
The underlying assumption in the argument that association with Rashid Khalidi or his views on the Israel-Palestinian conflict is worthy of criticism is itself, by its own standard, inherently racist. Earlier this week, John McCain once again attacked his presidential campaign oppone...
, Elections , Media , Racism
2008-11-03  Top of the Ticket
How much of a cataclysmic upset to the world of polling would a John McCain victory over Barack Obama on Tuesday represent? Here's a statistic from NBC political director Domenico Montanaro that puts it in perspective: "Obama has now led in 111 straight national polls with method...
, Candidate , Democratic , Polls , Presidential , Republican , Twitter
2008-11-03  Hey Jenny Slater.
Contrary to the impression I'm sure I've given a lot of you, I am neither a knee-jerk liberal nor a straight-ticket Democratic voter; I've never voted a straight ticket in my life. And in fact, the first vote I ever cast in a primary election was for John McCain, when I was living in V...
, the , w00t , politics
Between Hope and RealityBy Ralph Nader (source: Information Clearing House)Dear Senator Obama:In your nearly two-year presidential campaign, the words "hope and change," "change and hope" have been your trademark declarations. Yet there is an asymmetry between those objectives and you...
, Ralph , Barak , 2008
On October 31, MSNBC Live anchors Contessa Brewer and Tamron Hall both highlighted a presidential poll as evidence the race is "tightening" in some Western battleground states. Brewer, Hall and anchor David Shuster all described the poll as "new." In fact, the poll they cited was compl...
2008-11-03  CANNONFIRE
The election is very near, and I see little reason to attempt to persuade anyone to vote for John McCain -- or, more properly, against Barack Obama -- since every reader has by now surely made a decision. In all likelihood, Obama will win. Even so, the closeness of the race remains ris...
2008-11-02  Right Pundits
See the new Pennsylvania GOP ad. It features Barack Obama’s ties to the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Read about it and see the ad video below. Obama and Wright For most of this election, the GOP has chosen not to focus much attention on Barack Obama’s ties to Reverend Jeremi...
, Barack , John , Religion , Jeremiah
Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, specializes in polling of electoral battleground states, including Ohio and Florida. Click here for Mr. Brown’s full bio. It will be apparent early Tuesday evening whether you will need to stay u...
, Peter , Political
The economy has taken center stage in this presidential election, but more than a few people, including teachers, school administrators and other educators, are looking at candidates’ education platforms. “If you watched the last debate, you saw how far apart John McCain ...
, '08 , Blog , Education , Politics , Albuquerque , ATF , Barack , campaign , john
2008-11-03  Injury Law Blog
Yesterday I voted early in Broward County. It was quite an experience. The early voting polls were extended this weekend by Governor Charlie Crist for 12 hours for the weekend. It was strange that Palm Beach County early voting polls were only opened from 10-2 on Sunday, andBroward Co...
, Barack , Broward , Charlie , John , Law , McCain , Obama , Obama , early
This is part 5 in my series on the 2008 presidential election. An explanation as to the purposes of these posts can be found in the first paragraph of the first post in the series, located here.A bit of conventional wisdom among the corporate media is that Hugo Chavez is a tyrannical d...
, Things , Obama , elections , politics
Barack Obama radiated confidence and John McCain displayed the grit of an underdog Monday as the presidential rivals reached for the finish line of a two-year marathon with a burst of campaigning across battlegrounds from the Atlantic Coast to Arizona."We are one day away from change i...
2008-11-03  DCist
After two years on the campaign trail, Barack Obama ends his quest for the Presidency tonight in D.C.'s backyard. The rally, to be held in Manassas at the Prince William County Fairgrounds at 9 p.m., is Obama's final scheduled public appearance before Election Day. The event is free ...
, News
2008-11-03  Commentary
He surely didn’t plan it this way, but one sign of Barack Obama’s political genius — even if accidental — is the developing role of Joe Biden. Not as wise counselor, or sage guide to foreign policy, or as the Man of Great Experience, but rather as the Appointed ...
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2008-11-02  ImpeachBush
With two days before Election Day, the final NBC News map shows Obama remaining above the 270 electoral-vote mark, with a 286-157 lead over McCain. Last week, Obama held a 286-163 advantage. Our changes: We moved Montana and North Dakota (which has same-day voter registration) from Lea...
2008-11-02  
Do you remember that song?  I looooved it back in the days of tight-rolled pants and AquaNet.  It was sung by a band call Living Colour.  A rare blend of hard hitting rock and an all African-American band.  And an awesome one in my opinion.  One hit wonders I believe but hey, that...
, Just , constitution , Obama , Presidental
For those of you who wanted Obama to make a public statement on the air, he's done it and there's no doubt about where he stands. MTV will air a candid conversation with the Dem candidate tomorrow on its special "Ask Obama" at 9AM and 7PM ET. He directly addresses Prop 8 again, and giv...
2008-11-03  AngryBrownButch
I’ve been engaging in some fairly uncharacteristic behavior lately. This morning I headed over to the Brooklyn Academy of Music and spent a couple of hours phone banking for Obama, letting people in Florida know where their polling places are and encouraging them to vote tomorrow...
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2008-11-03  Beachwood Reporter
It's funny how the names are almost always the same - just in different combinations. On Friday, the names were Bill Cellini, Ed Burke, Michael Marchese, Michael Madigan, Eddie Vrdolyak, Richie Stein and Richard M. Daley, among others. On Sunday, in the Sun-Times, the names were Bill...
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2008-11-03  TalkLeft
Not the biggest deal but I hate silly stupid stuff whether its the Media or the blogs. In this case it is a twofer. Both the normally solid NYTimes reporter John Harwood and MYDD blogger Todd Beeton forward the idea that Barack Obama is outperforming Bill Clinton among white voters. Ha...
2008-11-03  Scared Monkeys
CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN … Obama, no political courage. Democratic VP candidate Joe Biden says that Obama will be tested in first 6 months and will initially get response wrong. Now Democrat Representative Jerrold Nadler says that Obama does not have political courage and a spine. Q...
, Barack , Bizarre , Politics , Presidential , WTF , You
2008-11-03  Creative Class
There’s been lots of discussion but little actual research on the so-called Bradley effect. David Stromberg, an economics professor at the University of Stockholm and Princeton economics Ph.D. takes a detailed look 431 elections for House, Senate, and Governor over the 1998-2006...
, Politics , Barack , Bradley , David , University
2008-11-01  Roger L. Simon
I am not one of those who thinks unlawful donations like those from Barack Obama’s illegal alien aunt Zeituni Onyango (now being returned) constitute a a significant proportion of the candidate’s immense money pile. But what is significant is that we are learning about this...
, Presidential , Uncategorized , media , obama
---------------------------------- Fired up and READY TO FINISH! -------------------------------- -- Boy oh boy. How many hours have I blogged and commented to other blogs in the past 12 to 18 months. Never had been much of one for politics. Somehow that changed around the 2006 elect...
2008-11-03  HispanicTips
Blogante Essentials -- November 3, 2008 Another Open Letter to the L.A. Times - Insulting the spirit of Ruben Salazar, Frank Del Olmo, and the Latino community by letting Augustin Gurza go :: from latinola.com El Salvador native, 86, had a long journey to U.S. voting boot...
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2008-11-03  BloggingStocks
Filed under: Boeing Co (BA), Politics, Presidential electionsOne of the little-noticed political endorsements from last week was that of former Ronald Reagan chief of staff, Kenneth Duberstein, who broke with his party to endorse Barack Obama. Why did he do this? The far more influenti...
, Airbus , BA , Boeing , inthenews , Ken , KenDuberstein , McCain , NOC , Obama
Early voters for the 2008 national elections in West Tampa, Florida during late October. It has been reported that 10 million people voted early.Originally uploaded by Pan-African News Wire File PhotosHow McCain Could WinMonday 03 November 2008Greg Palast, t r u t h o u t Perspective ...
2008-11-03  Top of the Ticket
Well, the final day before the official presidential voting and the final version of Karl Rove's exclusive national electoral map sees a strong victory for Barack Obama, gaining the most electoral votes since Bill Clinton's lopsided win over Bob Dole in 1996. According to th...
, Campaigning , Democratic , Electoral , Electoral , Florida , North , Polls , Presidential , Republican , Twitter
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/ 2008/11/sunday_afternoon_fun_the_best.ht ml?nav=rss_blogThere are about 1000 reasons why this post of Cillizza's is "Aristophanes-Ridiculous" (thanks DISTRIBUTORCAPny, great fuckin headline to a post! http://distributorcapny.blogspot.com/200 8...
2008-11-03  Zuky
The reason why the McCain-Palin campaign has appeared erratic throughout the election season is that their strategic communications have been conceived and crafted according to the language of implicit cultural code rather than explicit thematic cohesion. On the surface, their messag...
, African , Race , US
2008-11-02  Election 2008
A crowd of 80,000 gathered outside here at sunset in Cleveland, Ohio, either to see Barack Obama in person or to hear Bruce Springsteen sing and talk in support of the Democratic nominee. Between his cover of Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land" and a performance of his own "The Ri...
By MANIFESTO JOEIn the demented spirit of a godfather of American fascism, Joe McCarthy, plenty of Republicans, led by McCain attack dog Sarah Palin, are hurling the dreaded "S" word at Barack Obama. It's right-wing regurgitation.The dreaded word in McCarthy's time was "communist." Now...
, Barack , Socialism , Republicans
2008-11-02  Power Line
In early May, hoping to atone for having been wrong so often during the primary season, I predicted that, "more likely than not," John McCain would be unable to overcome the "fundamentals" that I thought pointed to a Barack Obama victory. Then, in mid-June, I attempted to predict wi...
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2008-11-02  rc3.org
When intellectually honest conservatives criticize Barack Obama, they say that he’s the most liberal Democratic nominee since 1972. (The dishonest ones call him a radical or a socialist or other silly things, but they’re not worth arguing with.) At the same time, people on ...
, Uncategorized , Overton , politics
There are but three days to go, Gentle Reader, and the McCain campaign is now down to fear and Joe The Plumber. Those who seek to spread The Fear are resorting to fantastic schemes and amazing leaps of logic in an effort to find something to make The Fear rise in voters. But to be hone...
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2008-10-31  Blue Spot
Real Clear Politics - News - Elections 2008 - Opinion - Commentary - TIMEFrom a study bythe Project for Excellence in Journalism: MSNBC stood out for having less negative coverage of Obama than the press generally (14% of stories vs. 29% in the press overall) and for having more negati...
, Media , Bill , Olbermann , Fox , MSNC
2008-10-31  The Ostroy Report
With just two days left until the most historic presidential election in our nation's history, it appears from the major national polls and electoral map that Democratic Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. Joe Biden are racing towards victory, while the GOP's Sen. John McCain and his running ma...
Sen. John McCain has made his opposition to congressional earmark spending — government payouts for specific projects outside of the usual federal-agency channels, tacked on to bills — a centerpiece of his economic platform. In the first presidential debate McCain said the ...
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2008-11-03  David Corn
This time it's personal. Then again, it was personal in 2004. In September 2003, I published a book immoderately titled, The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception. Its contention was a simple one: that Bush had gone beyond the normal boundaries of presidential ...
, 2008election , 2008presidentialcampaign , alfranken , barackobama , davidbrooks , davidcorn , dickcheney , georgewbush , joeconason , johnkerry , johnmccain , mattbai , mollyivins , paulnewman , paulwellstone , richlowry , sarahpalin , spin , studsterkel
George W. Bush will leave office on January 20th with one of the lowest approval ratings in American presidential history. "History will judge me," he says. Fair enough. Truman did not fare much better with public opinion in 1952. Consequently, historians and political commentators h...
2008-11-03  Les Enragés.org
All Over the MapsOK, I'm getting sick of this. So much so that I'm going to exercise my blogger's prerogative to call BULL-shit!Check out the map to the right, published today as an accompaniment to this article by Chris Cillizza at the Washington Post. This is Chris's prediction of th...
, Lying , Election , Media , Entertainment
Is there more daylight between Republican and Democratic energy proposals than commonly thought? Coal-country cheerleading (AP) In the election’s final weekend, coal once again became the battlefield, with a broadside attack from Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin ...
, Clean , Cap , Carbon , Coal , Carbon , AP
2008-11-02  Practical Theory
[A note -- I used to blog much more about my personal political views when I was a teacher, not a principal. As a principal, I blog much less about my personal beliefs outside of education for a lot of reasons. But in the end, this blog isn't a school blog, it's my personal blog, and I...
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Dandelion Salad By Ralph Nader ICH Nov 3, 2008 Dear Senator Obama: In your nearly two-year presidential campaign, the words "hope and change," "change and hope" have been your trademark declarations. Yet there is an asymmetry between those objectives and your political character that s...
2008-11-03  Feministe
Elections are coming up soon, and there’s a lot at stake — not just for the presidency, but for offices and local initiatives across the country. Eleven states are electing governors. 5,800 legislative seats in 44 states are up for grabs. More than 100 ballot measures will ...
, Elections , Politics
2008-11-03  Campaign Diaries
We have been talking so much about Missouri, Indiana and North Carolina that it would also seem that Barack Obama’s electoral fortunes depend on these highly competitive states. If that were true, we would be in for quite an unpredictable Election Day indeed. Unfortunately for Mc...
, AZ-Pres , GA-Pres , LA-Pres , NH-Pres , NJ-Pres , NV-Pres , Nat-Pres , PA-Pres , SC-Pres , WA-Pres , WV-Pres , electoral
Gimme a break.  Obama Loves Coal.The desperate Wingosphere has latched on to an out of context quote by Barack Obama "discovered" in an interview posted online since January by the San Francisco Chronicle, spreading what no doubt will be a very effective last minute fear tactic design...
, Barack , 08 , Liquified , Sarah , environment , energy , Coal
2008-11-03  Investing Insights
Here's one rare investment that, at least so far, has paid off handsomely in 2008: Barack Obama. Various election futures markets allow traders to make bets on politics. On Nov. 1, 2007, on the Iowa Electronic Markets, the Illinois senator was given about a 14% chance to merely win th...
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2008-11-03  Dandelion Salad
Dandelion Salad By Ralph Nader ICH Nov 3, 2008 Dear Senator Obama: In your nearly two-year presidential campaign, the words “hope and change,” “change and hope” have been your trademark declarations. Yet there is an asymmetry between those objectives and your po...
, 2008 , Candidates-Issues , Corporations , Dandelion , Economy , Israel , Nader-Ralph , Obama-Barack , Palestine , Politics , Poverty , The , WordPress
I am not an Ammerican and there is no way I could vote. However, before any winner could be declared, I would like to express my preference. I would like Obama to win. This is my personal choice and this blog just express the author's choice. I have read alot of bad and good things onl...
, Hope , Philippine , CHange , Obama
2008-11-03  The Republic of T.
OK. I’ll just go ahead and admit it. My nerves are shot. In fact, they’ve been too shot to blog much at all today. I don’t know whether to be excited, nervous or what. All I know is that, after being in D.C. for 2000 and 2004, I’m not given to unrestrained opti...
, current , elections , politics
2008-11-03  The Plank
With fewer than six hours until voting begins in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, the national polling picture has cleared up considerably. Barack Obama is on the verge of a victory, perhaps a decisive victory, in the race for the White House.The national polls have all consolidated into...
2008-11-02  Sorting The Pieces
Iwas reading Decoding Election Day, state by state and felt like I'd been sucker punched. This was the part that hit me.Tennessee: It's amazing that Obama is doing so well right now but getting killed in Tennessee. This is a state that has a pretty good presidential track record and De...
As we head into Election Day tomorrow, a look at polls reveals a fact that hasn't truly sunk in: Tomorrow is not truly Election Day, but more like the end of the Election Weeks, with the Obama campaign having built up substantial leads in early-vote states, which John McCain has to ove...
, Barack , FL-Pres , NV-Pres , OH-Pres
2008-11-03  Daily Intel
Photo:Getty ImagesTwenty-five thousand people gathered in a field opposite Duke Centennial Hall at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte late this afternoon to see Barack Obama make his second-to-last appearance on the last day of his presidential campaign. The weather had bee...
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Election officials are braced for the biggest election turnout in US history tomorrow as voters finally deliver their verdict on Barack Obama and John McCain to bring to an end a gripping, two-year long campaign.The excitement generated by Obama's candidacy is expected to see between 1...
, US , Barack , John , Democrats , Republicans
Most presidential polls ask respondents whom they’ll be voting for Tuesday. One poll released Monday took a different tack: asking respondents to predict who will win the election. The poll, conducted online by HCD Research Inc., asked 2,726 respondents, “If you could win ...
, forecasting , polling , campaign08 , politics
The Web on the Candidates The Latest in Robocall Busting: Starring in one of David Spark's "Sixteen Great Twitter Moments" now up on Mashable is the National Political Do Not Contact Registry's Shaun Dakin and California Green Party congressional candidate Zane Starkewolf. The latte...
, field , Living , robocalls , tech , volunteers , web
2008-11-03  Marisacat
Obama promotion - Singapore - Reuters One of the better photographic image card board cuts outs I have seen… Other than that, from the transcript for MTP (HA!): An [Susan] Eisenhower, a [Ron jr] Reagan, a Chris Buckley, a [Julie] Nixon are all supporting Barack Obama.  And he...
, 2008 , DC , Democrats , Inconvenient , San
Family and personal life: ref ← Previous revision Revision as of 22:00, 3 November 2008 Line 183: Line 183: [[Image:BarackObama-Basketball.JPEG|lef t|thumb|upright|Obama playing basketball with U.S. military in Djibouti in 2006.]] [[Ima...
Obama Needs To Earn This BBSNews 2008-11-03 -- By Naman Crowe. Even though I'm writing this two days before the election, it's safe to say that Barack Obama has been elected president of the United States. He shook up the world, as Mohammad Ali would say. That's not far off the mark.Na...
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Sen. Barack Obama is ending this campaign just like he started it — as the coolest guy in the room. Obama’s calm vibe is a recurring theme in campaign coverage. Flying on his plane this season, I have often been struck by his relative serenity amid his hard-working aides, ...
, Blog , Elections , McCain , Obama , Politics , bill , Matt , Obama's
Here’s a summary of the smartest new political analysis on the Web: by Gerald F. Seib and Sara Murray With the longest, most expensive campaign in American history down to its final day, Sen. John McCain’s campaign wants you to know this: He can still win this thing...
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ALL IN THE FAMILY Senior aides to Sen. Barack Obama and Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick were aware that Obama's aunt, Zeituni Onyango, was living in the United States illegally and in a South Boston public-housing project, and were monitoring her at the request of senior ...
2008-11-01  Jordan's View
Update 11-2-08: More articles on election 2008: Tuesday’s Choice More freedom and prosperity, or less? By Deroy MurdockEgo and Mouth by Thomas Sowell Born Gay or a Gay Basher? No Excuse by Frank TurekIt's just days away from the election. And its outcome is far from certain, despit...
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Let’s continue looking at the issues. In Obama’s book, he outlines three big investments that will make America more competitive; I wrote on this back in January when I made my initial “Why Obama?” post: I believe that Obama also has an intelligent and correct focus on ...
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I just came across this article on The Bruce Blog and thought it excellent.  Obama does have the chance to be great, and loved.  I certainly see that in him.  He is the president we need, now. ***** Obama Will Be One of The Greatest (and Most Loved) American Presidents By Frank Sch...