The only problem with the brilliant news parodies at The Onion is that their remarkably talented writers don’t seem to understand that real life is just as bad, if not worse, than their exaggerated caricatures. As The American Prospect’s Nick Confessore noted this afternoon, The Onion probably didn’t know how right it was just days […]
The Republican National Committee is calling voters in key states today with automated warnings of a secret Democratic plan for a draft. The draft. The Democrats haven’t pledged a thing. What are the Democrats hiding? Is the draft really their secret plan? Only the Democrats have proposed the possibility of a draft in this campaign. […]
We’re just a little over half-way through the big day and the right is already finding scapegoats to explain a Kerry victory. They apparently have settled on an old stand-by. Henry Farrell, for example, noted that two very high–profile conservative bloggers are blaming — you guessed it — the mainstream media for Bush’s still-undetermined demise. […]
Newsday’s legendary (and cantankerous) columnist Jimmy Breslin, who announced his retirement today, goes out with a bang in his final column. As Salon’s Andrew O’Hehir noted, Breslin is unusually confident in a Kerry victory. When published reports showed a million new voter registrations in Florida and about 800,000 in Ohio, I made the election a […]
Kevin Drum pointed to some unintentionally amusing GOP whining that should add a little humor to your day. As it turns out, Red State, a conservative blog, has obtained a copy of a DNC letter sent to Republican poll watchers in Ohio. These poll watchers, as you may know, have been sent to Dem precincts […]
Record turn out at the polls, record high numbers of early voters and absentees, and the highest interest in a presidential election in over a generation. Generally speaking, high interest in an election is usually associated with higher levels of voter turnout. This year, Gallup has measured dramatically higher levels of interest than in any […]
We’re still several hours before exit poll numbers start spreading around the ‘net, but Josh Marshall raised a good point this morning that warrants attention. Exits come out in a several batches over the course of the day. Democrats, on average, tend to vote later in the day than Republicans. Not always, but that’s the […]
I suspect neither side of the political divide wants to see the presidential race end up in a 269-269 tie, but with the possibility out there, Congress is making the preparations, should they be necessary. Many people realize that a tie electoral college will send the presidential election to the House. It would not, however, […]
We obviously won’t know what role Ralph Nader will play in the presidential race until tonight (at the earliest), but there is one key difference between this year and 2000 — how Nader spent the closing days of the campaign. This year, despite vowing in September to help Bush by campaigning in swing states, Nader […]
Four years ago, no matter what, Bush campaign officials were all smiles. Victory, as Karl Rove never stopped reminding people, was inevitable. Bush was so confident, he could take time off and campaign in California for a few days, which he mistakenly insisted he would win. For what it’s worth, the smiles are gone this […]