Exciting night! Results are starting to pour in, so let’s get to it…
8:30pm—MSNBC is showing 103 – 34 with a lot of pre-9pm states still not called. My projections are showing 66 safe electoral votes are pretty safe to call for McCain (WV, AL, KS, MS, TX, AR), so that would put McCain at 100 [...]
I took a look at the latest polls and projections on FiveThirtyEight.com and RealClearPolitics.com and mapped them out by when the polls close in each state to see how things should progress tomorrow night. All this assuming that states report fairly quickly and that the projections play out as expected.
By 8pm, the race should be [...]
It seems the McCain camp is really having problems vetting folks these days (especially someone you are going to mention almost two dozen times at the final debate)... the AP is reportng that Joe the Plumber is not a licensed plumber AND he owes $1200 in back taxes.
The head of the local plumbers’ union says [...]
John McCain at last night’s debate:
“Just again, the example of the eloquence of Sen. Obama. He’s health for the mother. You know, that’s been stretched by the pro-abortion movement in America to mean almost anything. That’s the extreme pro-abortion position, quote, ‘health.’”
So, women’s health is extreme? Just goes to show you – if you are [...]
This one is a little shorter than my previous post!
Just wanted to point out that I am glad someone in the media finally called Joe Six Pack what it really is…
George Packer in the New Yorker:
No one with a sharp, clear image in her head of a hard-pressed American would use a term like “Joe [...]
No, I am not making predictions (now that McCain is participating), it’s an online ad running on the Wall Street Journal site… already. From the Washington Post:
Although the fate of tonight’s presidential debate in Mississippi remains very much up in the air, John McCain has apparently already won it—if you believe an Internet ad an [...]
