If you’ve been reading this site for a while, you’ve hopefully come to expect this. If you’re new, welcome; we do this every Friday afternoon. It’s my weekly round-up of statewide presidential polls released over the last seven days. This week is a little less useful since it won’t include any post-convention numbers, but here’s […]
These guys never stop surprising me. The Bush campaign has gone to extraordinary lengths to ensure that only die-hard fans hear him in person. Interested but undecided citizen? You’re not welcome. Democrat who might find it exciting to see a President of the United States in person? Stay home. Independent who just wants to hear […]
On Wednesday, John Edwards had a clear message for parents who are worried about their children’s education costs. “When your neighbor calls you and says that her daughter has worked hard and wants to go to college — you tell her: Hope is on the way.” Who knew Edwards’ target audience may have been a […]
This is easily one of those you’ve-got-to-be-kidding-me kind of stories. Yesterday, I noted the growing rumor that Jerry Falwell has been tapped to deliver the invocation at the Republican National Convention in New York. I simply couldn’t believe it was even possible for the GOP to ask a polarizing, hate-filled TV preacher who blamed the […]
With the administration’s foreign policy in shambles, Bush and Cheney are doing their best to shift attention to the domestic front, trying to convince the public that that their stewardship of the economy has been great. For instance, Cheney told a California audience this week, “Our economy is strong and growing stronger. The Bush tax […]
Wow, those Republicans sure are a positive, issue-oriented, forward-thinking bunch, aren’t they? Members of the “optimistic” party have decided to turn this election season into a contest — strictly among themselves — to see who can coarsen political discourse in this country the most. In recent months we’ve seen Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) compare voting […]
I know this has been a prominent story on just about every blog that exists, but I thought I’d add my two cents anyway. Just three weeks ago, John Judis, Spencer Ackerman, and Massoud Ansari wrote a devastating piece for The New Republic. The article’s conclusion was almost too disgusting to believe: there are multiple […]
Tom DeLay said Sandy Berger’s incident at the National Archives could be a “national security crisis” and compared the matter to Nixon’s Watergate break-in. Dennis Hastert claimed Berger was trying to intentionally deceive the 9/11 Commission. CNN’s conservative pundit Tucker Carlson claimed that Berger hid information from the Commission by “strip[ping] the files of every […]
Will Farrell’s impression of Bush on Saturday Night Live always made me laugh out loud, so this video was a real treat (via Poppy and Taegan). It’s a four-minute commercial Farrell did for America Coming Together. It’s damn funny; be sure to take a look.
I’m usually horrible at judging how well a speech will “play” with the public. In 2000, I liked Gore but hated his convention speech. It sounded like a quickly-read laundry list whose only memorable line (“I am my own man”) didn’t actually say much. Immediately after it was over, I wrote in my notes, “Horrible.” […]