So Rahm Emmanuel and Lindsay Graham have worked out the details with the CPD on the Presidential Debates. The news isn’t particularly surprising- same format as ‘04 and ‘00, for the most part, with three debates between McCain and Obama and one between the VPs, which sounds like a silly undercard but which is where [...]

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Ever since Obama sent out that email to his supporters promising them the opportunity to learn his VP nominee via text message instead of two minutes later on the Internet or television- which was fucking brilliant, by the way, now that they have 2 million cell phone numbers, which are political gold and making an [...]

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In eight days, I’ll be aboard an airplane to Chicago, and shortly after that, the whole experience of living as an American overseas comes to an end for my wife and I as we sign a lease on a place in Austin and see how home looks with fresh eyes.
Something that comes up from [...]

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You’ll be forgiven if you’ve not heard of An American Carol, David Zucker’s follow-up to Scary Movie 3 and Scary Movie 4, set to precede Scary Movie 5 (seriously, there are five of those fucking things). There’s no trailer, and the movie doesn’t even have an official web page. But, oh, you’re missing out on [...]

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Dan Savage is one of the smartest writers working today, and he’s got a particularly keen grasp on American culture. But he’s totally wrong when he says that the way for Obama to win is to hit back at McCain with a Rove-style blitz designed to highlight the age thing. In a response to an [...]

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In response to Matt’s comments on the last post-

I think you’re actually talking about two different things here, and how Republicans have managed to get people to think of them in a particular light.

I am talking about two different things, but my point is that the it’s okay, daddy’s here tack comes automatically to [...]

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Still waiting to see what the damage is from the recent spate of resentment-stoking from the McCain campaign? There’s an itty-bitty poll out there that, working from a sample of 320 people, suggests that it’s bringing some Democrats from Obama to undecided, but nobody to McCain. Which is good, as far as these things go, [...]

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Bam! Right on cue! To follow-up on my last post, John McCain went ahead and accused Obama of playing the race card. An accusation like this is the granddaddy of resentment stoking, and honestly, it seems like it almost came a little early.
The line in question? Obama in Missouri:
“what they’re going to try to [...]

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