Tag: Barack Obama; John McCain; 2008 Presidential Election

Another Great Political Commercial. Sums Up My Feelings Nicely

This one is dedicated to the good folks at Yallpolitics. Believe me I know it ain’t easy pumping a pig, whether a stock down on it’s luck or a political party about to have it’s ass kicked by the voters. Enjoy.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq8Uc5BFogE]

A Picture is Worth A Thousand Words….

Current presidential election market price graph courtesy of the Iowa Electronic Markets. The election will not be close IMHO.

For those on the right that espouse the virtues and efficiencies of the a free market place It doesn’t look good for your main man McCain. Bob Dole once remarked that viagra commercials paid very well….

sop

Debate? What Debate? Favre Throws 6 TDs

21 of 23, 390 yards and 6 TDs. Long Beach is down on their luck this year but Dylan Favre was simply masterful.

Debates are for DVR’s. McCain did well but I thought Obama did better. With due respect to Andy Taggert, whom I seriously doubt is middle class, I think the proof is in the numbers whom the majority of the voters thought did the best.

TPM has the internals of the CNN poll of debate-watchers, which had Obama winning overall by a margin of 51-38. The poll suggests that Obama is opening up a gap on connectedness, while closing a gap on readiness.

Specifically, by a 62-32 margin, voters thought that Obama was “more in touch with the needs and problems of people like you”. This is a gap that has no doubt grown because of the financial crisis of recent days. But it also grew because Obama was actually speaking to middle class voters. Per the transcript, McCain never once mentioned the phrase “middle class” (Obama did so three times). And Obama’s eye contact was directly with the camera, i.e. the voters at home. McCain seemed to be speaking literally to the people in the room in Mississippi, but figuratively to the punditry. It is no surprise that a small majority of pundits seemed to have thought that McCain won, even when the polls indicated otherwise; the pundits were his target audience. Continue reading “Debate? What Debate? Favre Throws 6 TDs”