With eight days to go before Election Day, both sides are worried. Republicans are increasingly worried that McCain is losing in a way that "threatens to take the entire Republican Party down with him." Democrats, while being careful not to count their electoral chickens before they're hatched, are privately worried about winning without enough of a majority in the Senate to really change things. The enduring theme of Obama's campaign has been fundamental change. But, with victory within sight, the question becomes: how much change can he deliver if Democrats don't reach a filibuster-proof 60 seats in the Senate? If the recent past is prologue, the answer is: not nearly enough. So here is what the Obama campaign needs to do: spill a little red ink to turn a few more red states blue.
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While Republicans had the media searching for links between Obama and ACORN, RNC operatives were busily completing one of the most massive voter suppression and purging efforts in American history.
Six years ago this week, I was campaigning across Georgia for re-election to the Senate. My opponent at the time, Saxby Chambliss, ran a TV commercial against me that questioning my "courage to lead."
We'll have plenty of time to dissect this pig after November 4th, but I wanted to get a head start on some of the most egregious acts of political malpractice I have ever seen at this level of politics in my life.
I love the idea of Sarah Palin. She conforms to an early American ideal of womanhood: rifle on one hip, baby on the other. The problem is that the the idea of Sarah Palin does not match the reality of Sarah Palin.
Limitations on coordinated expenditures between a party's National Committee and its candidate -- such as Palin's $150,000 wardrobe -- had been in place for decades, until McCain gave the nod to lifting them.
The evangelical Christian mullahs are declaring that Obamageddon is at hand. One warned that people who hate Christianity will take over the country if Obama is elected. "Life as we know it will end!"
This year's World Series, featuring the Phillies and some other team, will be the first-ever to be yanked before completion, but in the words of one baseball executive, "We're fairly sure no one will notice."
By alluding to incidents that happened almost 40 years ago and making charges that would have made Joe McCarthy proud, McCain supporters are, almost literally, fighting the last (Cold) war.
The two candidates offer a clear choice between a confident man and a highly emotional one, between a major change in the nation's direction and a minor one, between a combative style and a more conciliatory one.
The next President of the United States will confront major health policy decisions that will affect the lives of all Americans.
Possibility #5: Sarah Palin reveals secret past as Rhodes Scholar; admits "hockey mom" thing was just a ruse -- to avoid being called an "elitist."
