Obama's pulling away.

That web site is my new War Room. The analysis is much more insightful.

Wow, the trolls and idiots woke up early today.

Obama will take Michigan by a comfortable margin.

signed Ray From Michigan

Quote: If an all-out Depression is a certainty, then perhaps Obama would be better off losing. McCain sure won't know what the hell to do other than remind us that he's some sort of a Maverick.

So it would have been better somehow if Hoover had been elected in 1932 instead of FDR? Are you crazy, or just baiting me?

Two thirds of Republicans voted against it, a solid majority of Democrats supported it, so it's Peolosi's fault that it didn't pass? No one's stupid enough to believe that. People may not understand what the credit and banking crisis is; but they generally believe that Wall Street fat cats, Republican deregulators and the Bush administration either caused the mess or acted too little, loo late to avert it.

Colin Powell's Pottery Barn Doctrine applies here -- you broke it, you better damn well buy it.

let the dancing begin

Make every g*dd*mn republican vote for a temporary wall street bailout, some sort of revolving loan fund to get us through the next 4 months only, and with just enough dems to get a majority. Then pass sweeping reforms in January and let President Obama sign them as his first major achievement.

Ha ha, i've also been creeped out by that music, but couldn't have described it so aptly.

Talk about a tone deaf campaign.

Biden could reference the name of some historical event, treaty, court case, etc, and then yield the rest of his time by saying Governor Palin, I'd be interested in your views on this.

I recall Swift advocated eating Irish babies. You satirists are all so

hungry. :)

(see above)

2020 Jindal/Bush (George P.)

2024 Jindal/Bush

2028 Bush/Palin (Bristol)

This is fun. Maybe someone else will add a few more.

it would be brilliant: visit your dying WHITE grandmother, the one demographic where Obama's not leading in swing states.

ONLY THING IS>>> it's not a tactic. She's his granmother and she's dying. I am so glad I didn't renew my subscription and support this despicable excuse for "liberal media." It makes me sick to think I even read your report.

Perfect

Klytus, I came here to mention The Tenant, but you beat me to it. Scared me a lot when I saw in in Urbana in 1978. I remember an homage to Psycho and the swirling blood in the drain when the camera spins into a hole in a bandaged face.

The Exorcist scared the bejeesus out of me -- book and movie.

The Obama campaign has been a great step in the right direction toward a "post-racial" America -- not necessarily one where people don't notice differences in skin tone or culture (how bland would that be!), but one in which they are not a factor in elections. Clearly, race mattered to some degree to many voters -- that it was, according to your data, a net "plus," is a reflection of changing demographics of the electorate. The Jim Crow era voters are dying. College education rates are high among the younger Boomers like I (b. 1959, grew up in mixed race areas of Louisville, remember the 60s and the school busing battles of the 70s) and those born after the Civil Rights movement. For almost half the electorate, Martin Luther King is not a memory but a holiday and an icon. A larger turnout rate among minorities may have offset the influence of those for whom a candidiate's Blackness was still a negative. So yes, let's celebrate progress. May there be much more of it in the next 8 years.

told our jokes about Hoosiers; no doubt they said the same or worse about us.

59 senators = bad

41 senators = good

I guess I'm not understanding the math here.

Far from having bought the election, I think the record fundraising was a pre-vote on Obama (and Bush). I'm sure the differencial in the number of contributors was even greater, as Obama had more small donors. In a way, the money gap represented more a predictor of the outcome than a cause.

If 66 percent of all adults voted in the presidential election, and roughly half of them voted for Bush (I think he got about 49% vs Gore and 51 vs Kerry?), then 33 percent of the respondants might have voted for Bush, as in half of the 66 percent who voted. Get it?

Also, as has been pointed out, if more people came of age or immigrated since those elections, that further dilutes the poll. It's likely that at least one-third of those polled didn't vote for anyone in 2000 or 2004.

This seems to have rankled some -- a bit too close to the truth? Of course the USA had an advantage in that when the industrial rev came along, it had its own continent (hemisphere?) to mine (plunder?) for resources. nothing expands forever, except maybe the universe

Pale reflections and

Languidly drifting words by

Garrison Keillor

Or saucy wenches

With pert breasts displayed like fresh

Friut on a platter

Readers really want

dastardly deeds done by dark

despicable men

Every time I see that stupid GB logo I think of the Green Bay Packers. That is all I came here to say, Comrades.

Lincoln and FDR never had to dicipher such dumbass questions. What does "have a beer with" mean anyhow? Is it euphemism used by Log Cabin Republicans ? (Obligatory: not that there's anything wrong with that.) Bush won two elections (sort of almost) because he was the prefered beer buddy (though he professed sobriety.) God help us all, our nation's been dumbed down so far (except I don't bleieve in a Supreme Being, oops, there goes my political career).

I couldn't see Kate Winslet's breasts at all in that black gown. I guess I'm not smart enough to understand what Ms. Paglia's talking about.