Pelosi Paid Husband with PAC Funds--Good lord, like we need this distraction
Ifill Releasing Pro-OBama Book-- according to FOX News McCain didn't know about this when he agreed to Ifill as the debate moderator. Betcha Palin withdraws...
And now for some good news, in a new poll Obama leads in OH, FL and PA. Gotta see what Nate thinks about this poll.
The Senate steps up.
Nate Silver analyzes the post-debate polls.
"So Obama may not have persuaded that many voters on Friday night (I don't think his performance, frankly, was all that persuasive). But he may have reassured and locked in some of his soft supporters -- perhaps Clinton voters and working class Dems."
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The Ifill thing bothered me at first, reminded me of how I felt when Stephanapolis moderated the infamous "gotcha" debate b/w Obama and Clinton. But then I read this on Washington Monthly:
"And third, as Jamison Foser explained, if Ifill should be excluded because of an alleged conflict of interest, the other two remaining moderators should probably get similar scrutiny:
1) The October 7 presidential debate will be moderated by NBC's Tom Brokaw, who currently serves as NBC's liaison to the McCain campaign -- while spreading pro-McCain misinformation on Meet the Press. In fact, the McCain campaign hand-picked Tom Brokaw to moderate the October 7 debate. [...]
2) CBS' Bob Schieffer moderated one of the 2004 debates, despite the fact that he is a longtime friend of George W. Bush who had previously acknowledged that his personal relationship with Bush made it difficult to cover him. Schieffer's brother was a business partner of Bush's before Bush became president -- and Bush made him an ambassador."
oops. I mean Stephanopoulos.
yeah, it's certainly an incestuous little world. though i'm not sure i buy that brokaw was hand-picked. brokaw relayed a conversation a few weeks ago about how mccain absolutely didn't want an nbc moderator for one of the debates but when he found out it was brokaw he grudgingly approved it.
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