An unlikely endorsement which may point to a blowout

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Saturday November 01, 2008 · 10:11 PM PDT

2008/11/01 · 22:11

Let me start with some historical perspective.

Lynden is a town in Whatcom County, which occupies the northwestern corner of the State of Washington. Lynden is a few miles north of Bellingham, just off the Guide Meridian and a few miles south of the Canadian border. It's a Dutch colony of sorts, and very religious - churches everywhere (at one time holding the world record for churches per capita, the big one being the Dutch Reformed) and some very odd blue laws. A dairy town, they actually flourished during the Great Depression and interpreted their comparative affluence as favor from God for their piety. The town is very clean, nicknamed "Tidytown," and in fact there is an ordnance which requires regular mowing. If you don't mow often enough, the city will do it for you and bill you (nobody has ever challenged that one in court, or I suspect it would not be upheld).

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Friday October 31, 2008 · 9:15 AM PDT

2008/10/31 · 09:15

He's slipped 11 points in the polls in two weeks!

From RCP:

SurveyUSA 10/27 - 10/28 658 LV 56 39 Obama +17
Suffolk/7News 10/20 - 10/22 400 RV 53 34 Obama +19
Rasmussen 10/13 - 10/13 500 LV 62 34 Obama +28

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Wednesday October 15, 2008 · 8:55 PM PDT

2008/10/15 · 20:55

A weird thing on CNN's post debate coverage. The first comments after Blitzer and Cooper delivered their summary came from Bill Bennett. He reminded us that he had been unhappy with McCain's previous performances, but exuberantly proclaimed McCain the winner of this debate. They went to Paul Begala who gave a less enthusiastic nod to Obama, pointing out that McCain again came across as angry. Then they went to David Gergen who argued for reasons I don't remember that Obama won. The reason I don't remember is that I was distracted by Bennet's rather pronounced head shaking and sarcastic grimacing.

Drummond

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Monday October 13, 2008 · 2:18 PM PDT

2008/10/13 · 14:18

Of corruption that is, not stupidity. I still think that just sending people out to register voters on a quasi-commission basis was a dumb move, and my biggest fear isn't that Obama or other Democrats will be tainted with voter fraud charges. My concern is that this will provide Republicans with more excuse to purge voter rolls and cage anybody registered by ACORN.

Obviously there's no way these false voter registrations can impact the election unless people actually show up to vote under these names. It doesn't seem likely. In fact, using celebrity names would be a stupid way to go about it. This is obviously a problem of ACORN being taken by economically desperate individuals who either should not have been hired at all, or otherwise supervised much more closely.

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Thursday September 25, 2008 · 10:19 PM PDT

2008/09/25 · 22:19

To recap:

There's somewhat of a dispute as to the impact of the arrival of the presidential candidates to the bailout discussions. The account being reported on CNN tonight is that the Democrats opened up, asking Obama to present their position. When McCain was called on he deferred to House Republicans, as the Senate Republicans remained silent. McCain said very little during the meeting, but the House Republicans started talking.... deregulation. Yup. Deregulation. (One of the female representatives was on Larry King tonight claiming that the crisis was brought about by.... socialism. Yup. Socialism.). They also called for.... tax cuts. Yup. Tax cuts.

The Democrats reportedly went ballistic and the meeting broke down with Republican Shelby walking out and holding the first press conference to slam the Democrats and pronounce the Paulson proposal dead. Some of the reported exchange at the end is below.

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Sunday September 21, 2008 · 9:25 PM PDT

2008/09/21 · 21:25

His name is Tom Frederickson of Old Glory Radio.

Obama better think about putting some money into our area! This guy's mad and he's not going to take it anymore!

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Tuesday September 16, 2008 · 10:01 PM PDT

2008/09/16 · 22:01

I just happened to channel flip to O'Reilly's show tonight and he had two very beautiful women on, neither of whom I recognized, who said they had read through the Palin emails and found plenty of grounds with which she would have had to fire Walt Monegan.

So far the emails themselves aren't posted anywhere, but the following are being reported on the right wing blogs such as this one:

According to the papers filed by Palin's legal team, that was not the only instance of insubordination from Monegan:

* 12/9/07: Monegan holds a press conference with Hollis French to push his own budget plan.

* 1/29/08: Palin's staffers have to rework their procedures to keep Monegan from bypassing normal channels for budget requests.

* February 2008: Monegan publicly releases a letter he wrote to Palin supporting a project she vetoed.

* June 26, 2008: Monegan bypassed the governor's office entirely and contacted Alaska's Congressional delegation to gain funding for a project.

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Sunday September 14, 2008 · 12:49 AM PDT

2008/09/14 · 00:49

Not in those words, but in what appears to be a late Saturday night/Sunday morning news drop, they're admitting what the Globe reported today. CNN has it.

I hope this gets discussed on the Sunday morning shows. Obama has a narrative now. He needs to reinvigorate his campaign, and what can be more inspiring than showing that he won't go the way of Kerry?

It's nice that the media is finally doing its job. I think the McCain campaign started to feel like they could say anything and wouldn't pay consequences. In recovery lingo the media has been an "enabler."

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Friday September 12, 2008 · 9:59 AM PDT

2008/09/12 · 09:59

I agree that the latest ads are lame, and that Obama needs to hire some better ad people. I agree that he needs to have more big rallies to re-energize his support, and himself for that matter. I'm glad the media is finally taking on McCain and his VP pick.

But Obama's people need to take a page from Clinton and put up a sign on their HQ wall which reads "It's Bush stupid." If McCain can shake Bush, he's won. Obama can't let him do that.

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Wednesday September 10, 2008 · 2:34 PM PDT

2008/09/10 · 14:34

What the Hell was he thinking?

From CNN:

Joe Biden told supporters at a town hall Wednesday afternoon that Barack Obama might have been better off choosing Hillary Clinton as his running mate.

"Make no mistake about this, Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America. Let’s get that straight," Biden said testily when a voter told Biden he was glad the Delaware senator had been chosen and not Clinton.

"She’s a truly close personal friend and she is qualified to be President of the United States of America, she’s easily qualified to be Vice President of the United States of America and quite frankly it might have been a better pick than me," he continued.

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Tuesday August 26, 2008 · 11:21 AM PDT

2008/08/26 · 11:21

The Diageo/Hotline national poll has Obama up by four points.

It was taken August 18-24 with the margin of error at 3.0%. Obama is at 44 percent, McCain at 40, with 13 percent undecided (no third party candidates).

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Saturday August 23, 2008 · 7:48 PM PDT

2008/08/23 · 19:48

Having missed the events of the day live, I've spent the past couple of hours flipping between the three cable news networks. For about half the time I watched Fox and I really got a feel for profound difference in coverage between Fox and the other stations.

Not to say that any of the coverage was particularly insightful or brilliant, but on CNN and MSNBC I repeatedly saw clips from Biden's speech followed by talking head analysis of mixed levels of value. In the at minimum 45 minutes of Fox viewing I saw no clips of Biden's speech - not one. I would say about 25 percent of the time was spent on McCain's theme of Biden's former slights about Obama's experience when Biden was running for president. ALL of the rest of the time was spent discussing how much the choice pissed off Clinton supporters, bringing in whatever Democrats they could find to support the meme (Susan Estrich, a former Clinton campaign representative I didn't recognize, etc.) with alleged journalist Geraldo Rivera saying he was "pissed" that Clinton was passed over.

Addendum: Sorry, I realize there are no conservatives here. I'd posted this on some other blogs where they roam.

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