A Lullaby For Bradley

In response to the eyepopping polling numbers from the CBS/NYT poll, Wieland at Transparent Grid asks a very good question: can we put the Bradley Effect to bed? My first inclination, and this may come as a shock, is to say that we can’t.  The whole point to the Bradley Effect, in principle, is that...

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I almost went a whole day without doing a post about polls. No, I’m not on a polling twelve step program, in truth the only reason why I haven’t focused on polling today was because for the most part the polls haven’t really shown much new.  It’s a stable race with Obama very...

Underdog vs. Loser

“The national media has written us off. Sen. Obama is measuring the drapes and planning with Speaker Pelosi and Sen. Reid to raise taxes, increase spending, take away your right to vote by secret ballot in labor elections and concede defeat in Iraq. But they forgot to let you decide. My friends, we’ve...

I Can’t Make Stuff Like This Up!

Seriously, I wish I could make up stuff like this, I would be friggin’ rich.  Or maybe not, no one would actually believe any of it. McCain’s love of lobbyists, and his unintentionally ironic attempt to brand himself as an anti-Lobbyist crusader, is all old hat.  We know that McCain said he...

Liveblogging Announcements

Yeesh, it is a slo news day, at least it is for me.  That or I am finding myself uncharacteristically bored with the headlines I’ve seen so far.  You want to know what’s happened today in the world of politics?  Barack Obama is still leading McCain by an embarrassing margin, the right is still...