palin: bipartisan, mavericky, washington outsider reformer, just like… dubya.

More of the same? You betchya! Olbermann par excellence.
 

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trickle-down hostility in the mccain campaign?

Fascinating post today from Sean Quinn over at fivethirtyeight.com. Team 538 has been on the road for the past couple of weeks, crisscrossing the country to take the pulse of the campaigns and voter sentiment on the ground. Rest of the post comparing the McCain and Obama operations here.
 
Something interesting is happening with John McCain’s [...]

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palin against sudan divestment before she was for it

Andrew Sullivan continues his ever-growing series on the lies of Sarah Palin today, checking out her contention last night,
 
“When I and others in the legislature found out that we had some millions of dollars [of Permanent Fund investments] in Sudan, we called for divestment through legislation of those dollars.”
 
and citing the ABC News refutation of [...]

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sarah palin debate flow chart

Love it.
 
 
 
h/t Sullivan.

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krugman on bailout bill 2.0

This clip finally surfaced; the conversation happened before the bill passed (ugh), but still provides important context, I think, on the state of the crumbly economic nation. I’m saving my contempt for House GOP grandstanding and Senate pork barreling for another post. Krugman’s point that this was still better than nothing duly noted. But he agreed [...]

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again with the exceptionalism.

The word can slip by ever so easily without people realizing the world view that lurks therein. Palin said it I believe twice at the debate last night, providing a fine segue to Richard Cohen’s article of last week.
 
Exceptionalism has taken an ugly twist of late. It’s become the angry refuge of the America that [...]

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happy anniversary, barack and michelle

 
 
 
 
 
 
Photo via Huffpo, wherein a commenter had the idea to donate $16 to the Obama campaign today on behalf of their sixteenth anniversary. Or, you know, for the deeper-pocketed among you, $160 or $1600.

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mccain v. mccain on the bailout?

The man just voted for the newly pork-laden Senate version, but seems to think the president should veto it, but said earmarks are bad but said well, that’s just the way Washington works–? And I guess is for the bailout because of the economic crisis but his campaign is running ads against Obama for supporting it? For a [...]

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