The latest polls show Obama with a comfortable lead in enough states to give him 260 of the 270 EVs he needs, and favored in enough other states that he need not win either Ohio or Florida.

A lot of you hyper-panicking blamethrowers should read up a bit more on state-by-state polling.

And hoot-owl should have a bit of waterboarding at 3 a.m. I hear it's fun!

Walter Shapiro, and indeed anybody who wants to comment intelligently on the Presidential race, should look very carefully at how Gallup constructed their most recent poll. In a nation where registered Democrats outnumber registered Republicans by a 4:3 margin, Gallup somehow sampled just as many Republicans as Democrats. Worse, this ratio was new to this week's poll, and was not consistent with previous Gallup polls on this question. (Except another Gallup outlier a few months back, where they did the same thing.)

As a result of the improper sampling, Gallup has grossly inflated McCain's support level. John McCain's 10 point bounce is derived half from a normal post-convention bounce and half from bad polling by Gallup.

This will become clearer later this week as other, better polls become available.

A tip for future poll-reading: when any of these polling organizations proclaims their top numbers without disclosing their internals, wait for the internals. Otherwise you are only getting half the picture

Is it really worth discussing?

Thousands of scientific papers are published every year (and I may be off by a few orders of magnitude.) But the media filter as to what makes its way into popular culture is always about the sexiness of the results, as opposed to the quality of the research. Let's face it - John Tierney is not really the best person to judge.

And Catherine is basically parroting Tierney.

As to the content of this article:

At some point, perhaps people will remember that the nuclear family is a modern invention. The fact that people are pursuing gender roles even more today than in previous centuries would support the thesis that gender roles are learned, not instinctive. The genetic makeup of the human species has not changed in any meaningful way in millenia, so any major differences detected must be artifacts of culture.

cover the 2008 election.

I guarantee that Gore is not thinking about the 2012 election. If he'd wanted to run, he would have run this year, when he would have immediately been the front-runner.

Stop it.

Grow up.

Take your job seriously.

Obama Supporter's Should Panic!

People would take you more seriously if you didn't reveal your illiteracy so quickly.

Plurals do not require apostrophes!

How can we take any of your commentary seriously when your grammar is worse than that of a moderately bright 8-year old?

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I'm sorry, is it elitist of me to get tired of the politics of stupidity?

Queen 'B', learn how to use grammar, learn how to use capitals, and learn what a contradiction is! For example:

Obama now says that he is for an increase in the size of the U.S. military.

is not a contradiction of

But during the primary he said that he would cut defense spending by tens of billions of dollars, and He promised that he would, quote, ‘slow our development of future combat systems.’

See, spending lots of money does not equal making a better military. I'll explain it in terms you might understand.

What if we were talking about, say, schools instead of the military. Would you think blindly spending lots of money would make better schools? I'm guessing not.

So why do you think that it does with the military?

Stopping the war in Iraq would, by itself, save hundreds of billions of dollars. That money saved could easily be used to improve the military.

Some people think it's impolitic to tear somebody a new one simply for being under-educated. But really, I think that the anti-intellectualism of the US, which "Queen B" so neatly epitomizes in her incoherent, ungrammatical rant, is a force driving the US straight into a ditch. The US simply cannot continue to allow itself be driven by the lowest common denominator and have any kind of reasonable long-term future.

will W.E.S. ever have an original thought.

Welcome to democracy! More people thought Obama was the better candidate than Hillary. More people thought he had a better chance of beating McCain than she did.

At some point, don't you have an obligation to sit down and shut up?

If Tracy Clark-Flory's previous article disturbed you, why did you read it? It was fairly clearly advertised at the time. I remember seeing it advertised and thinking I wasn't personally interested.

Isn't it funny how a person has a choice about what he reads?

As for the current topic, I'm quite confused about the conflation of "partner-bonding" and infidelity. Speaking for the bachelor population, I think most of us are not bachelors because we are sexually promiscuous. Most of the people I knew who were promiscuous when young went out and got married. (And some got divorced, and remarried, etc.)

A person who doesn't bond easily is quite a different animal from a person who is promiscuous.

it's fairly obvious Carmen is a troll who doesn't actually believe the bs he is typing.

But I still root for the Red Sox, in spite of Curt Schilling politicking for Bush in 2004.

Manifestly ludicrous to think that a Democratic VP candidate with a pregnant teenage daughter would not be treated with at least as much interest by the media.