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I hope, hope, hope, hoe, hope this is accurate. The one I love is the "win percentage" at 98.9% for Obama. I'd sure love the popular vote to be a larger margin though. A massively decisive victory for the Democrats is the only way Republicans can get their party back. - ·[▪_▪]·

Interesting way to look at it -- Republicans get their party back if the current crew loses big. Makes sense. - Dave Winer

"– Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin describes herself as a "hard-core pro-lifer" and expresses confidence that in spite of disheartening polls, "putting this in God's hands, that the right thing for America will be done at the end of the day on Nov. 4."" - Atul Arora from Bookmarklet

It's actually the very tip of his or her middle finger. - david beckwith

"Are John McCain's negative attacks succeeding in eating into some of Barack Obama's support? They certainly aren't yet. In fact, Barack Obama has had perhaps his strongest individual polling day of the year:" - Mike Reynolds from Bookmarklet

Dave, it's more like 4th and 10 now. - Mike Reynolds

"A majority of debate watchers in a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken Saturday picked Obama over Republican John McCain when asked which candidate offered the best proposals to solve the country's problems, 52%-35%. They said Obama did better overall in the debate than McCain, 46%-34%." - Dave Winer from Bookmarklet

"Barack Obama's senior aides believe he is on course for a landslide election victory over John McCain and will comfortably exceed most current predictions in the race for the White House. " - newsjunk.com

Nothing like a little overconfidence, is there? I hope that, amid their confidence, they're keeping their eyes on the prize. - Steve Lowe

"Among likely voters, Obama now leads McCain by 52 percent to 43 percent. Two weeks ago, in the days immediately following the Republican National Convention, the race was essentially even, with McCain at 49 percent and Obama at 47 percent. " - newsjunk.com

The Wall Street Journal: "It's Judgment Day for John McCain": http://tinyurl.com/4r4pcy "Last week, Republican presidential candidate John McCain called for a commission to "find out what went wrong" on Wall Street. It was an excellent suggestion: Public inquiries into Wall Street practices served the country well in the 1930s. And Mr. McCain has a special advantage to bring to any such... more... - Sean McBride

"It is arguable that, because of his inexperience, Obama is not ready for the presidency. It is arguable that McCain, because of his boiling moralism and bottomless reservoir of certitudes, is not suited to the presidency. Unreadiness can be corrected, although perhaps at great cost, by experience. Can a dismaying temperament be fixed? " - newsjunk.com

Evidence of an increasing drift by many conservatives and traditional Republicans from the new disastrous neoconservative version of the Republican Party. And has everyone noticed that beneath the "bottomless reservoir of certitudes" exists a bottomless well of ignorance about everything? I haven't heard McCain offer an informed and coherent policy analysis on any issue -- that is why is he all over the map. His self-contradictions are all offered with the same strident certitude. - Sean McBride

"On the strength of an abundance of state and national polling, Barack Obama has retaken the lead in our Electoral College projection. Our model now forecasts him to win the election 61.2 percent of the time; it also gives him a slight, half-point advantage in the popular vote. Yesterday, Obama was projected to win the Electoral College just 45 percent of the time, so this is a rather dramatic move upward." - jcunwired from Bookmarklet

" If Barack Obama looks like he's moved up a point or two between two or three polls, that may not be particularly meaningful, and our model will tend to treat it as noise. If, on the other hand, Obama appears to have gained a point or two between 20 or 30 polls, which is what we're getting on a daily basis nowadays, we can say with more certainty that a real shift in the electorate has occurred." - jcunwired

"Now, I want to be clear and speak directly to those of you who LOVED that Palin interview. You're an idiot. I mean that. This is not one of those cases where we're going to agree to disagree. This isn't one of those situations where we debate it passionately and then walk away thinking that the other guy is wrong but argued well. I'm not going to think of you as a thoughtful but misguided person with different ideas who still really cares about the country and the world. No, sorry, not this time. This time, if you watched those interview excerpts and weren't scared out of your freakin' mind, then you're mentally ill, mentally disabled, or mentally disturbed" - Dave Winer from Bookmarklet

Well I can now say for certain I hate the undetermined character limits of friend feed as much as the 140 character limits imposed by twitter, identica, plurk, etc... Though I am uncertain of that last statement is even remotely correct: yes.. corporations have put forth the pretense of caring.. the gist I was getting at was that this election for me is choosing the lesser of two evils. - Curtis "Billy" Cross from twhirl

"defend the innocent from the enemies who planned and carried out and rejoiced in the death of thousands of Americans." does not mean the same as "Iraq planned the 9/11 attacks" - Jason Shultz

Give me a break ... she's just trying to inspire the troops, give them something to fight for. I just don't get why this is a big deal. She clearly is not linking Iraq, the country, with 9/11, nor Saddam. I don't think there's anything inaccurate in what she said. Her "God's war" comments ... those are frightening. This is just motivational. - J. McConnell

"Meanwhile, one by one, the weight of this evidence has demonstrated to McCain's former fans what a dishonorable, cynical creature John McCain has become. There was Mike Murphy, caught on live mike, admitting that the selection of Sarah Palin was cynical and gimmicky. And Joe Klein, labeling McCain's pro-predator attack on Obama as "one of the sleaziest ads I've ever seen in presidential politics." Even Mark Halperin called last nights piggy lipstick stunt the lowpoint of this campaign. Sully is just the latest of former McCain fans to grow utterly disgusted with this new cynical creature." - jcunwired from Bookmarklet

le mot juste: whore. oil industry whore. - Indio Apache from twhirl

The number one job of our Federal government is running a military organization to protect our country. He's addressing the job he is applying for not playing to peoples fears. - ChiliMac from twhirl

Well nobody has a perfect record, and certainly reasonable people can disagree about whether McCain's experience makes him the best candidate. While it is commendable that McCain has honorably served his country, I *personally* think that graduating magna cum laude from Harvard and being President of the Harvard Law Review is better "experience" to have for POTUS than does, say, graduating near the bottom of your class at the Naval Academy and crashing five aircraft. But that's just me... :-D - Karim

"It stretches the mind almost to the breaking point to think of John McCain as an agent of substantive change. He once believed that Phil Gramm was the most qualified person in the United States to be president. And he now believes that Sarah Palin is the most qualified to be vice president." - newsjunk.com

When I think if McCain and Change, pampers come to mind. - jcunwired

Alaskans Speak (In A Frightened Whisper): Palin Is “Racist, Sexist, Vindictive, And Mean” http://tinyurl.com/6o8wbd (Change you can believe in? Rolling back the clock culturally to the Deep South in the 1950s?) - Sean McBride

Chrome is probably the most efficient browser I've seen to date. But maybe that's coz I'm not that old to have seen every browser to date. :) - Imran Hussain

I'm still waiting before I even test it because it's bad to be early adopter these days. ;) - Daniel Schildt

I must subscribe to you for this post. - ::Kristen::

Ohio and Colorado have swung to Obama. http://www.electoral-vote.com/ President O will also have the Senate and the House. - Indio Apache from twhirl

Great stuff, I like the way Lakoff thinks. - Joshua Oehler