The McCain Campaign’s Tragic Legacy
By Ned Resnikoff - Nov 12th, 2008 at 11:25 amThis “Joe the Plumber” crap will just. Not. Die.
First, he got his own record deal, as if country music hasn’t suffered enough. And now,…
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Nate Silver Has Godlike Predictive Abilities
By Jesse Singal - Nov 5th, 2008 at 2:56 pmVia reddit, my months-long mancrush on Nate Silver had been fully validated:
That is really friggin’ impressive.
Given the huge amount of filler in the…
Vote for Bajohn McBama!
By Jesse Singal - Nov 4th, 2008 at 4:17 pmI can still see this when I close my eyes:
(via Dan Savage, who got it from other folks)
Buy The Iron Cage
By Dylan Matthews - Oct 31st, 2008 at 3:10 pmEzra has a great suggestion for how to protest the McCain campaign’s Islamophobic, anti-Arab campaign against Columbia Professor Rashid Khalidi:
Presumably, this experience has not…
Slate Lets You Know
By Matt Zeitlin - Oct 29th, 2008 at 11:45 amSlate has a quadrennial tradition of its contributors, editors, reporters and interns all declaring who they are voting for in the upcoming election. The results are never…
The Paradox of Progressive Health Care Reform
By Dylan Matthews - Oct 29th, 2008 at 11:28 amI really recommend watching the Campus Progress discussion between Elizabeth Edwards and Ezra Klein that Kay posted yesterday. It does an exceptional job of elucidating…
Elizabeth Edwards on Health Care
By Kay Steiger - Oct 28th, 2008 at 6:02 pmLast night Campus Progress, our sister organization, sponsored a wonkarific discussion on health care between Ezra Klein and Elizabeth Edwards. The full video can be…
If You Can’t Ask Tough Questions, You’re Not a Reporter
By Jesse Singal - Oct 28th, 2008 at 12:50 pmTPM highlights a truly remarkable piece in today’s Los Angeles Times , one that Times staff writer Maeve Reston wrote because she doesn’t want anyone…
The Persistence of Negativity
By Jamelle Bouie - Oct 28th, 2008 at 10:05 amVia ThinkProgress comes the revelation that more than half of Kentucky Republicans–and almost a quarter of Kentucky Democrats–are unaware that Barack Obama is a Christian:…
Double Standards
By L. Russell Allen - Oct 23rd, 2008 at 11:21 amCNN is reporting that John McCain has claimed that America’s enemies will be encouraged to attack us should we, the American electorate, elect Barack Obama…
Obsessed: Your Jalopy, Joe the Plumber, and Bluegrass Fiddle
By Bradley Portnoy - Oct 17th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
It’s 18 days until the election–what did you think we were obsessed with?
I am obsessed with the new camo cans. Delicious and discrete.
-…
Finally, Some Election Lolz
By Loryn Wilson - Oct 17th, 2008 at 10:19 amObama and McCain roasted each other last night at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner in New York. Just when I was feeling the…
School Vouchers: Still a Terrible Idea
By Ned Resnikoff - Oct 16th, 2008 at 1:04 pmSteve Benen picked up on what I thought was a pretty surreal moment in the debate as well: John McCain touting the smashing success that…
Last Night’s Debate By the Numbers
By Dylan Matthews - Oct 16th, 2008 at 10:21 amThe number of times the following words were uttered in last night’s presidential debate:
Joe the plumber: 9 times.
Ayers: 7 times.
Earmarks: 5 times.…
For Allah’s Sake, Islam Isn’t Evil
By Jessica Hillyard - Oct 15th, 2008 at 10:21 amMatthew Yglesias salutes CNN’s Campbell Brown for consistently calling out some of the idiocies of this election year. A few weeks ago, Brown challenged the…
