Dave "Maverick" Winer

Hopefully it will develop much the same as Woodstock, where, if all are to be believed, there were about 30,000,000 people to hear Hendrix do an anthem. - eggsy

You can still vote for the oldest U.S. presidential candidate if you want to be historic. - Robert "Maverick" Haas

I think people do like the idea of being part of a "historic" moment, and that may tip some people. But what tips this election isn't going to be the people who switch votes to be historic -- it's whether or not all those youngsters at Obama rallies actually get up and vote. - Joel Bennett

Here's a profile that contains what we in Arizona know - Francine Hardaway via Bookmarklet

"John McCain's candidacy is as much a casualty of Wall Street as Lehman or Merrill. Like those once vibrant institutions, McCain's collapse was stunning and quick. One minute you are a well-respected brand. The next you are yelling at the messengers of your demise as all around you the numbers start blinking red and stop adding up. " - newsjunk.com

Give the man a microphone. :-) - dan

"Fearing a loss, Republicans urge the McCain-Palin team to spend more time and money in the battleground state, which the Democrats visit often. " - newsjunk.com

"Supporting Obama, the rock legend takes a swing-state tour, once again." - newsjunk.com

""It's crazy that we feel we have to hate people we don't want to vote for."" - newsjunk.com

"As part of a strategy to get Liberty University's 10,000 students to vote, the school founded by the late Jerry Falwell will cancel classes on Election Day, bus students to the polls and lift curfew so students can watch the results on TV." - newsjunk.com

From Liberty University's WP page: "The code of conduct includes possible reprimands and, later, fines, for such activities as attending dances, violating curfew, viewing R-rated movies, drinking, smoking, viewing sexually explicit material, entering the bedroom of a member of the opposite sex, having an abortion, and participating in unauthorized petitions.". Victorian values much? - Alexander Carlill

"The latest polls which show Barack Obama has pulled ahead of John McCain in both national polls and in key battleground states." - newsjunk.com

"A new ad from the McCain campaign, released this morning." - newsjunk.com

"Barack Obama's Democratic presidential campaign is threatening to alter the electoral map that decides the White House. Virginia has been a traditionally red state, but Obama has been working hard to make it a blue state. " - newsjunk.com

"Asian stock markets plunged Monday as government bank bailouts in the U.S. and Europe failed to alleviate fears of a global financial crisis that would depress world economic growth." - newsjunk.com

"“They are also building schools for the Afghan children so that there is hope and opportunity in our neighboring country of Afghanistan,” she told several hundred supporters at a fundraising event in San Francisco." - newsjunk.com

Later she addressed the issue head on: “I was just trying to give Tina Fey more material — job security for Saturday Night Live,” Palin said. (so it really is unfair for everyone else to pick on her you see) - David HC Soul

"Seven Alaska state employees have reversed course and agreed to testify in an abuse-of-power investigation against Gov. Sarah Palin. " - newsjunk.com

"One of the most pressing questions Senator Barack Obama or Senator John McCain would confront if elected president is how to build on the security gains in Iraq at a time when troop levels have begun to drop." - newsjunk.com

"Democratic surrogates say they've been given the go-ahead from the Obama campaign to mention John McCain's associations with S&L kingpin Charles Keating and other historically tarnished creatures when asked about Obama's connection to ex-Weatherman William Ayers." - newsjunk.com

"John McCain was making a bid for South Florida's Jewish voters, a crucial demographic in a purple state. But then he chose Sarah Palin as a running mate. " - newsjunk.com

I am trying to get the gf to quit but it's an uphill battle. - Jauder Ho

I used to drink at least 2 cans of Pepsi Max per day. I guess the biggest benefit is healthier teeth. - Paul Grav

I had nonstop headaches for the two years I drank diet. - Alix Whitmire

Thanks to everyone who came out for our Friday night photowalk in Sacramento. We had about 40 or so people and near perfect weather -- just enough rain to wet the streets for those awesome neon reflections, but not enough rain to keep us from enjoying ourselves. Especially thanks to Trevor Carpenter and Tom Spaulding for helping organize and the tour of the best spots to shoot neon downtown. Many more photos coming in the weeks and months ahead. - Thomas Hawk via Bookmarklet

Like #3. 10/05/2008. Wish I were there. - Robert Scoble

دنیای زیبایست این آی مکس... - ‎‎Emad

There's a feedback room FYI - anna

I know, but I wanted people who follow various services I provide through FF that the problem is with the API, not with the services. - Dave "Maverick" Winer

"Several Obama surrogates said his supporters may start reminding voters of McCain's ties to Charles Keating, a convicted savings and loan owner whose actions two decades ago triggered a Senate ethics investigation that involved McCain as one of the "Keating Five."" - Dave "Maverick" Winer via Bookmarklet

Berge told us that we’d know if the Nebraska 2d congressional district internals had the McCain camp worried if we started seeing Republican surrogates in the area. With every day's time so precious for each candidate -- an issue of resource allocation -- campaigns have to prioritize where the smartest expenditure of time will be. The nominee or VP nominee going to an area is a big deal. - Dave "Maverick" Winer via Bookmarklet

As of now, this article from 538 has 533 comments. - Mike Reynolds

"With Sarah Palin's attack yesterday on Barack Obama's patriotism and his ties to former Weather Underground ringleader William Ayers, the McCain campaign has left little doubt about in which direction it intends to head over the final month of the campaign. Namely, they're going to drive their campaign into a ditch -- and hope they can find a way to take Obama along for the ride. It is a sad denouement for what was one to be a high-minded campaign focused around themes of honor and reform (themes that were resuscitated briefly during the Republican Convention), possibly accompanied by McCain's taking a one-term pledge. It is also, however, Mr. McCain's strategists would seem to have concluded, their only remaining hope." - Mike Reynolds via Bookmarklet

Yeah, the McCain campaign needs a better "cut man"...his eyes are so swollen shut that he can't see the hits coming anymore. - Alex "Maverick" Scoble

Glad you posted this. - Warner Crocker

Me too! :-) - Dave "Maverick" Winer

Unlike that behavior. - Russellreno

"A closer look at the life and career of John McCain reveals a disturbing record of recklessness and dishonesty" - Dave "Maverick" Winer via Bookmarklet

The comments alone are worth the read. Politics seems to bring out the worst in a lot of people. - Henry Burger

"Dramesi says he has no desire to dishonor McCain's service, but he believes that celebrating the downed pilot's behavior as heroic — "he wasn't exceptional one way or the other" — has a corrosive effect on military discipline. "This business of my country before my life?" Dramesi says. "Well, he had that opportunity and failed miserably. If it really were country first, John McCain would probably be walking around without one or two arms or legs — or he'd be dead." - Erica Baker

This hasn't made it to factcheck.org yet -- does anyone know of a reputable site that's either fact-checked or responded to this article? - Tom Stocky

"A middle-aged man of considerable means and privilege who has freely chosen in his first fortysomething years on this planet to visit fewer than four countries (of the almost 200 United Nations' members) should not be permitted to captain our nation." - newsjunk.com

I've seen the world. Yawn. - Morgan Warstler

"Leave aside for a moment the fact that two decades have passed since college in the life of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, and that she only managed to get a passport and leave the country for the first time last year." - Mike Reynolds

"Possible secretaries of the 15 executive departments are listed first on the following pages, in the order they would ascend to the presidency (after the vice president, Speaker of the House and president pro tempore) under a 1947 law that links the pecking order to the longevity of the departments. After that are some potential heads of the EPA and the Office of Management and Budget, along with the U.S. trade representative, all of whom appear likely to be accorded Cabinet rank no matter who becomes the 44th president." - Dave "Maverick" Winer via Bookmarklet