Without a ruler

Thursday, October 2, 2008

VP Debate

Well, most of us were watching to see if Sarah Palin would collapse completely.

As we all know, she didn't. However, to have that low a bar is a terrible thing.

So, Sarah Palin had to prove that she could actually speak competently without looking like a fool, and she did that.
Senator Biden had to not kick her if she fell down, and he didn't.

Joe Biden helped his party, his ticket, and gave specific ideas, and restrained from constantly correcting Palins casual relation to facts. Sarah Palin simply did some damage control.

More whining from McCain

He's sounding more and more like Bush every day.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081002/ap_on_el_pr/mccain;_ylt=Ar1QEoJAgTaVRXFNKYBMlITCw5R4

VP Debate looms, McCain whines

It seems that VP moderator and PBS Senior journalist Gwen Ifill dropped a surprise on the McCain camp that she is currently writing a book titled "The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama". This has raised obvious questions regarding her partiality.

How can she claim to be partial when Obama is in the title of her book?
Why didn't she tell us earlier, why did she keep it a secret?

Well, all sarcasm aside, the title of her book does not indicate partiality either way. It obviously describes the story of how race and politics relate in the current political climate, a time when a black man, Obama, wins the nomination of a major US political party. To say that this is a topic that could not be covered impartially by a serious and respected journalist is ridiculous, until we factor in that Gwen Ifill is also black.
A serious and respected black journalist is incapable of being impartial regarding the first black presidential candidate, or so John McCain would have you believe.

“Frankly, I wish they had picked a moderator that isn’t writing a book favorable to Barack Obama — let's face it," McCain said on "Fox & Friends." "But I have to have confidence that Gwen Ifill will handle this as the professional journalist that she is. ..."Life isn’t fair, as I mentioned earlier in the program."

It's not that she will be professional, it's that he will have confidence in her. Please.

Wouldn't this all be a lot less confusing if she had simply disclosed previously that she was writing the book? Well, she had.

"the PBS journalist said that Time magazine noted she was writing a book in August, and that it has been available for pre-sale on Amazon.com. The book also is mentioned in a Sept. 4 interview she gave the Washington Post."

-http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/10/01/america/Debate-Ifill.php

So, with both questions answered, we're just left with John McCain whining, desperate for anything to save him from the impending disaster that is the VP debate tonight.

The Map

Alright, I'm looking at the map again, and things are getting interesting.

Here's my predictions as of today:

Battlegrounds: (race is within 3 pts)

Ohio 20, North Carolina 15, Virginia 13, Indiana 11, Missouri 11, Nevada 5,

75 votes up for grabs

Before results from the battlegrounds we have Electoral Vote breakdown:

Obama: 300 McCain: 163

If McCain takes all 6 he'd still only have 238. A far cry from 270.

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Obama gains Florida!

According to the latest polls, Obama just picked up Florida!

He's up by 3 points in Virginia, 2 points in Ohio, and is now in the lead by a point in Florida!

CNN Polling data now projects the following breakdown of Electoral Votes:

Obama: 325 McCain: 180

*270 votes needed to win.

That's what I call momentum!

Palin doesn't even understand the questions

Another instance of Katie Couric asking a question that just goes over Sarah Palins head.

It's getting tough with Palin, the videos simply speak for themselves and truly don't require much commentary. The sheer stupidity exhibited, I'm speechless.

Katie Couric basically dares her to name 3 news sources she has followed to remain informed, and Palin thinks it's a question relating to Alaska being uninformed because it's far away. My God.