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Week of October 26, 2008 - November 1, 2008

Surprise: Obama's aunt is illegal alien?


I don't think the timing of this is coincidental:

"Barack Obama's aunt, a Kenyan woman who has been quietly living in public housing in Boston, is in the United States illegally after an immigration judge rejected her request for asylum four years ago, The Associated Press has learned."

Plattsburgh Press-Republican/AP News story.

Carter Collapse - can polls be wrong?


I keep hearing Repubs talking about how the polls were wrong in 2000 and they were wrong in 2004.  But they weren't.  IIRC, the polls showed both races about even, if not a slight lead for Bush.  Certainly the 2004 Florida exit polls were "wrong".  Yeah, right.

It seems the only recent election in which you could argue that the polls were polls were significantly off is Reagan-Carter, 1980.  Can someone fill me in on that one?  From what I understand Carter went from a slight lead to a huge loss in the last 48 hours before the election.  I would guess (if it's true) that was almost 100% because of the Iran hostage situation.

Since there's nothing even remotely like that going on, I can't think of any reason to enjoy the ride until Tuesday, confident that Obama's win will be decisive.



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