Americans detained in China. Does anyone care?
I wonder if the traditional media will remove their lips from China's rear end long enough to cover this one.http://www.nytimes.com/...A group of six Americans who were taken into custody on Tuesday as...
View ArticleSarah Palin scrubs her own Wikipedia entry?
This is a breaking story from NPR: Sarah Palin may have scrubbed her own Wikipedia entry shortly before her nomination leaked this morning.Here is the audio from NPR.I will be updating this diary as...
View ArticleFactcheck.org strikes back
Folks, we need to get pushing with this "McCain lies" meme. Even the notoriously conservative (and by that I mean "careful and cautious" not "Republican") factcheck.org is now openly calling McCain...
View ArticleDeath is not an option: Bush or Palin (poll)
Like many of you, I've been watching Sarah Palin unravel faster than the subprime market. For a while there, I found the trainwreck of it all deeply amusing. But as the days have run on, my amusement...
View ArticleLast night Orange to Blue passed the 1/2 million mark! (poll)
For anyone who may have missed it, I wanted to point out that last night the Orange to Blue page passed the $500,000 dollar mark in total donations raised. That's over half a million dollars to good,...
View ArticleCan I take the temperature on the bailout? (Poll)
I've been following the debate going on around here, and I'm actually a little unclear on where people stand. There are a lot of good and different ideas I hear, and that's great--this isn't and...
View ArticleObama takes on Omaha
According to Nate over at FiveThirtyEight.com, Obama looks like he might be competing for 1 of Nebraska's 5 electoral votes. What does that mean for Senate (and O2B) candidate Scott Kleeb?Recall that...
View ArticlePhonebanking: What am I doing wrong?
So, I was supposed to drive to Virginia this weekend to do GOTV work, but I woke up yesterday with a wicked cold and decided walking around all day wasn't a good idea, so I've spent the morning with my...
View ArticleAction needed: Tattle on your poll workers
Heather Gerken at Balkinization has set up this website to help keep real-time, ongoing track of conditions at election centers throughout the country. Please consider stopping by after you've voted...
View ArticleProp 8 and race
Americablog.com has reposted this rather inelegant reader comment regarding the failure of Prop 8: This was a very bad thing that Prop. 9 passed. And from the exit polling data I read alst night via...
View ArticleStraw poll on how the economic collapse is affecting you
Obviously, and with good reason, the economic crisis is on a lot of our minds. But I was wondering how many of us it has affected on a personal level thus far.Obviously, even those of us with...
View ArticlePoll: Has the economy affected your job situation?
These polls are totally, unscientific, I understand, but with the latest job news, I was interested in seeing if there was a way to make more concrete these large abstract numbers that seem so hard to...
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