Tuesday?

Someone please tell me who I'm voting for. Also, I'll need an armed escort for the trip to my new voting place on Cottage Grove. I ain't in Andersonville no more.

Change We Can F***in Believe In

Barack schools the Rs with cameras rolling.
"So effective was the president that Fox News cut away from the broadcast 20 minutes before it ended."

The money quote:

Today, at that Baltimore encounter, the president sharply confronted Republicans for attacking his health-care plans as radical.

"You'd think that this thing was some Bolshevik plot,'' Obama told his audience. "That's how you guys have presented it.''

Trying to focus on the positive

Check out Joel Achenbach's post today. Brightened my spirits a bit:

The erosion of Obama's popularity over the past year is not a sign of some kind of failure on his part. It's actually a necessary part of governing well. A president has to spend political capital. Presidents become less popular if they do their jobs with any verve and take any chances. You have to spend that surplus of popularity or else you're in this business for the wrong reason.

What else could go wrong?

oh how i've missed turning inside and out all the little details of an election.

Politics again

Blogging on Sassy has been a bit quiet. So...time to resurrect Nate!

The Massachusetts Senate election is really a tossup. Here's Nate's most recent set of scenarios.