Category: Politics

As I said in an earlier post, the only election-night coverage I watched was the Comedy Central special and Obama’s speech on C-SPAN. This morning, though, I flipped back and forth between MSNBC and CNN while feeding and walking the floor with SteelyKid (when she’s fussy, she won’t tolerate me standing still to read blogs).… Continue reading Thank God for the Internet

Some commentary on the night just past. This will be somewhat scattered, as I stayed up until 1 to hear Obama and read the celebratory postings at my favorite left-leaning blogs: — As much as I believed what folks like Nate Silver were saying, I was still afraid that it would somehow all go wrong,… Continue reading The Morning After

Heart-warming morning thought: SteelyKid is going to grow up in a world where “Can a black man be elected President?” will be considered a stupid question. That’s worth a smile: Hell, that’s worth some dancing in the streets:

It seems like everybody with a blog has put up a live-blogging/ open comment thread about the election. I can’t really type fast enough to compete in this sort of thing, and anyway, it seems cruel to leave foreigners and apolitical types out of the fun. So, for the benefit of those who can’t vote… Continue reading Non-Election Live Blogging

There aren’t any results yet. Turn off the computer. Go vote. Already voted? Watch some silly videos. Eat a sandwich. Do some freakin’ thing. Just stop reloading FiveThirtyEight and Talking Points Memo, already.

Is it just me, or is this New York Times article on undecided voters just a more genteel version of this Daily Show segment on undecided voters? (Personally, all the people in the Times sound like they want to vote for McCain, but know there’s no good reason to do so. They’ll talk themselves into… Continue reading Advantage: Comic-o-sphere

With the election nearly upon us, I’ve started regularly following Talking Points Memo again. Late last night, Josh Marshall wrote about the early voting results: Among those who’ve already voted, it’s Obama 57%, McCain 38%. And that number is not inconsistent with numbers coming out of a lot of the early voting states. CBS says… Continue reading Early Voting, By the Numbers

Some time back, the Obama campaign site offered a “check your voter registration” link. This seemed like a good resource to promote, so I checked it out. This required giving them an email address, and since then, I’ve gotten a flood of fundraising emails purporting to be from significant people within the Democratic party. One… Continue reading For $1,500, Joe Biden Will Dance Like a Monkey