The Iowa class battleships (Wisconsin, New Jersey, Iowa, and Missouri) have a chance to go as a bloc this year. This has happened more often than you'd expect; all four went for Clinton in 1992 and 1996, for Reagan in 1980 and 1984, for Nixon...
Month: November 2008
Just for fun, I guess it's time to make some election calls:President: Obama 326, McCain 212 (Obama gets all Kerry states + NM, CO, NV, OH, VA, IA, NC)Senate: Dems.
Nice to see that the GOP is abandoning most of its efforts to retain/take House seats in New York State. Even better, they wasted a lot of money here before.
A friend of mine was telling me today that the US Attorney's office in Denver has just hired several fairly high-ranking Department of Justice lawyers as Assistant US Attorneys. What's notable about this is that it's very strange for high-ranking DOJ types to take AUSA...
Sarah Wildman explains.It should also be noted that Colorado's ridiculous Prop 48 -- which would give constitutional rights to a zygote -- is favored by John McCain and is also.
I believe that this crap was also a centerpiece of McCain's SNL appearance yesterday. Of course, the idea that McCain had to run a dishonest campaign centered around inane trivia.
Zomblog has unearthed a shocking conspiracy:I have been "granted full permission to use the images and transcriptions on this page freely and without restriction." As such, let me call your attention to this pair of virtually identical images. The first is the Weather Underground logo;...
If anyone thought I was above using my daughter's humiliation to make a serious political point, you were wrong....I should add, for the curious and concerned, that Audrey survived the.
This, from Larry Eagleburger, is perhaps the most pathetic walkback that I've ever seen:You are witnessing something quite unique—a man who’s about to talk to you while he has his.
How important is Gallipoli to Australian identity?A row has erupted between Australia's PM Kevin Rudd and his Labor predecessor Paul Keating over the importance of Gallipoli, a WWI battle site in Turkey.Mr Keating dismissed as "nonsense" the view that a new Australian identity was forged...
To echo what Rob (and Henry) have said, it's worth drawing a distinction here. Reasonable people can argue about "outing" in the sense of, say, a newspaper publishing reliable information.
R.I.P.