Morning Roundup

Great article about our heroes Nate and Sean.

Race a dead heat in Mo and NC? Other than this post, I'm not gonna cover the polls this morning. Between Dave and I yesterday, we pretty much got you the story. Nothing has really changed this morning--McCain has moved up a bit but not enough to make a difference this close to the election.

McCain is going to appear on SNL tomorrow night. I guess that means I won't be tuning in.

You know how I feel about newspaper endorsements (not relevant) but I still find this revealing:
"At least 47 papers -- the most recent, the Cape Cod Times -- have now switched to Obama from Bush in 2004, with just four flipping to McCain (see separate story on our site). In addition, several top papers that went for Bush in 2004 have now chosen not to endorse this year, the latest being the Indianapolis Star in key swing state Indiana."

I haven't blogged about this yet, but McCain and Palin are still up to their dirty tricks trying to defame the reputation of a Columbia professor by calling him a neo-nazi and tying him to Obama. For the record, this guy does hold some controversial views, but so does Todd Palin. From today's WaPo which totally goes after them for this in an op-ed.

"In the past couple of days, Mr. McCain and his running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin, have likened Mr. Khalidi, the director of a Middle East institute at Columbia University, to neo-Nazis; called him "a PLO spokesman"; and suggested that the Los Angeles Times is hiding something sinister by refusing to release a videotape of a 2003 dinner in honor of Mr. Khalidi at which Mr. Obama spoke. Mr. McCain even threw former Weatherman Bill Ayers into the mix, suggesting that the tape might reveal that Mr. Ayers -- a terrorist-turned-professor who also has been an Obama acquaintance -- was at the dinner.
Our sense is that Mr. Obama is a man of considerable intellectual curiosity who can hear out a smart, if militant, advocate for the Palestinians without compromising his own position. To suggest, as Mr. McCain has, that there is something reprehensible about associating with Mr. Khalidi is itself condemnable -- especially during a campaign in which Arab ancestry has been the subject of insults.
We did ask Mr. Khalidi whether he wanted to respond to the campaign charges against him. He answered, via e-mail, that "I will stick to my policy of letting this idiot wind blow over." That's good advice for anyone still listening to the McCain campaign's increasingly reckless ad hominem attacks. Sadly, that wind is likely to keep blowing for four more days."