A boy waves an American flag during a rally by US Democratic presidential candidate Illinois Senator Barack Obama at the Crown Center Coliseum in Fayetteville, North Carolina, October 19, 2008.NYT publishes a long article on the candidates' health. Surprisingly, none of the candidates were that forthcoming with their health records. The biggest concern, obviously, being McCain's bouts with cancer (and most of the article is dedicated to him) but, and perhaps more annoying, Palin never submitted any medical records. Why does she get away with this sh**? Anyway, good timing if this is picked up in other venues since people seem to be most concerned about Palin's ability to govern should McCain die in office.
Beloved Steeler's owner Dan Rooney is campaigning for Obama. Hopefully that'll bring us some votes in western PA.
Nate scratches WV from the tossup column and gives it to McC for now. A few tidbits from his Sunday poll update: all but one of the national polls have Obama 5 -7 pts ahead and Nate gives him a 90% chance of winning all the Kerry states from '04.
Howard Kurtz in WaPo on whether the media is driving Obama's victory narrative. Great quote from Chuck Todd:
NBC's political map has Obama at 264 electoral votes, just short of the required 270. Political director Chuck Todd told viewers that Obama is "one state away" and says he doesn't see how McCain can catch up.
"I think we have to be responsible," says Todd, adding that he won't hesitate to put Obama over 270 if his analysis supports it. "It'd be worse if somehow we were withholding it. That's crazy too. It looks like you're trying to create drama."
Finally, Congrats to Sassy! In the 3 weeks since we started tracking the number of visitors to the site we've hit a thousand. Unbelievable!!! This is not the number of actual visitors, just the number of visits. We have about 30 regular visitors/day from 10 states and two countries. I don't even know who all of you are! Like, who the hell is reading Sassy in Arizona?!!?? Anyway, it's pretty cool and I'm kind of obsessed with the google tracking function.
3 comments:
-The Arizona reader(s) is/are probably members of McCain's household(s) staff(s) who want him to lose too.
-That's great news about the Steelers' owner. Clearly a better pro sports' team owner in PA than the Philly Flyers' owner (who is a big right-wing nutjob).
-I've heard that Sassy is big in Japan.
Nope, nothing that dramatic. The Arizona visitor is my nephew, Robb who is one of us dems.
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