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November 10, 2008
Finding Fame With a Prescient Call for Obama
By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD
At 9:46 p.m., blogging on his site FiveThirtyEight.com, Nate Silver called the presidential election for Barack Obama. The television networks followed suit about an hour and 15 minutes later after most polls in Western states closed.
Of course, Mr. Silver had a head start: he [...]

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Jon Stewart’s not taking sides, but…

“Neither of them is perfect, but if you, out of nowhere, are going to grab a woman out of the woods and make her your vice presidential candidate, what can I do?
“[Sarah Palin] is like Jodie Foster in the movie ‘Nell,’ ” Stewart continued. “They just found her, and she [...]

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Article courtesy of DailyKOS.
Sarah Palin:  Separatist, former mayor of a village, and a wannabe book-burner:
[Former Wasilla mayor John Stein] says that as mayor, Palin continued to inject religious beliefs into her policy at times. “She asked the library how she could go about banning books,” he says, because some voters thought they had inappropriate language [...]

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All this hand-wringing over the national poll numbers is misplaced. Watch the swing state numbers, and especially, watch Ohio.
Like every other junkie, I’ve been checking 538 every day, but I noticed something for the first time yesterday: based on their models, McSame has less than a 1% chance of winning the election without winning Ohio.
That’s [...]

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It’s late - I’m about to head to bed. I just wanted to put this out there before I do. I am beginning to see mounting evidence that Barack Obama is going to select Indiana Senator Evan Bayh to be his running mate. I think the Obama campaign made the decision last week, or the [...]

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by DHinM from DailyKOS
We’re in trouble:
Obama was at the Tiergarten in Berlin, amid a sea of people.  McCain was at “Schmidt’s Sausage Haus und Restaurant” in German Village, an enclave of Columbus, Ohio.
McCain addressed about a half dozen Ohio small business owners in the historic village.
“I’d love to give a speech in Germany,” McCain said. [...]

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