Week of October 12, 2008 - October 18, 2008
October 18, 2008, 2:39PM
Posted from Daily Kos by Davidkc: McCain interview in Florida regretting not picking Charlie Crist:
"Charlie, because he's so popular, he probably would have made a significant difference,"McCain said in an interview with the St. Petersburg Times and Bay News 9.
"I think this would have been a battleground state, except for obviously (with) a popular governor as Charlie Crist is," McCain said.
"Look, this is a tough decision that we made with Sarah Palin."
October 17, 2008, 1:14PM
Just got a robocall from "Joe the Plumber"in Colorado. However, this Joe was calling on behalf of Barack Obama and the Colorado Democratic Party, criticizing John McCain for his debate performance, and not even mentioning the middle class once.
I guess two can play that robocall game.
October 17, 2008, 12:36PM
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/10/17/brunner_scotus.html?sid=101
October 17, 2008, 12:13PM
6th Circuit and Ohio Secretary of State
Repost from 2 days ago:
October 15, 2008, 10:12AM
Nothing is funnier than an appellate court ordering a state official to
do their job. And if she says, "Let's not and say we did", what can
they do? Judicial activism at its worst. The reason most intelligent
courts decline to involve themselves in micro-managing the election
process is that if the official involved is recalcitrant, they look
impotent, and judges do not like looking impotent. It is why the
Supreme Court stopped the vote counting in Florida 8 years ago. It was
easy, direct, and enforceable. But to order officials to "do their
job" effectively is a complete waste of time. And they know it and so does the Ohio GOP.
October 17, 2008, 8:39AM
CNBC reports the following news as if someone had just died:
"September Housing Starts 817,000 vs 872,000 consensus; prior revised to 872,000 from 895,000"
I guess the theory being if we aren't building as many houses, then the economy must be getting worse???
How about the contrary view: We have a million vacant houses across the nation. Could we get homebuilders to stop building so many houses for 6 months or so. We could probably fix the most devastating problem in our economy, falling home prices, almost instantly if we declared a moratorium on all home building for 6 months. Who are the Wall Street geniuses that are lending these people money (at this point taxpayer money) to build these unwanted houses?
Toll Brothers, Hovnanian, Centex, DR Horton, give it a rest for 6 months will ya?
October 17, 2008, 7:49AM
Reposted from last week:
October 8, 2008, 1:04PM
One thing to keep in mind about these tracking polls, (especially the
Daily Kos / R2000 poll which generally has McCain at 40 or 41%), McCain
will get
at least 45% of the vote, more probably 46 or 47%...
In any event, a 4 or 5 point win means an electoral college landslide for Barack!
October 15, 2008, 10:12AM
Nothing is funnier than an appellate court ordering a state official to do their job. And if she says, "Let's not and say we did", what can they do? Judicial activism at its worst. The reason most intelligent courts decline to involve themselves in micro-managing the election process is that if the official involved is recalcitrant, they look impotent, and judges do not like looking impotent. It is why the Supreme Court stopped the vote counting in Florida 8 years ago. It was easy, direct, and enforceable. But to order officials to "do their job" effectively is a complete waste of time. And they know it and so does the Ohio GOP.
October 14, 2008, 12:00PM
I know this only anecdotal but here in Colorado it looks like the attack ads are disappearing after running fast and furious for the last 2 weeks.
Reviewing TIVOed shows the last two nights, I am seeing no McCain Ads and only positive Schaefer ads. Is this a 2 day (pre-debate) pulback or a trend? Any ideas?
