Some news restores your faith (or hope). First, she destroyed McCain’s candidacy and now she looks like being in a terminal political slide herself: Sarah Palin is no longer the most popular governor in the country. That title now belongs to Connecticut Republican Governor M. Jodi Rell. Rell has a 70% approval rating (4.10.09). Connecticut has seven [...]
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Kristol, Palin and the NYT: a tale of intrigue and punditry
Conservative commentator (Weekly Standard, Fox and the New York Times) William Kristol is said to have been Gov. Palin’s ‘patron’ and is now in the centre of a post-election losers’ firestorm which could see him dumped (there’s even an online poll about who should replace him) from his prestigious NYT columnist role. It raises questions about [...]
READ MORESome interesting Saturday links
Branding 101: How to Promote Your Blog Like the Big Guys Do Social reader Twitter Goes Mainstream: A lot more people — and businesses — are finding new ways to tweet Perhaps iPods Aren’t Replacing Radio Nearly One-Third of Web Users Watch TV While Surfing Google at 10: Searching Its Own Soul Palin denounces her [...]
READ MOREGreg Sheridan spits the dummy
Sheridan’s writings are so often so ludicrous. Obviously, from the tenor of yesterday’s rant, he is now coming to terms, psychologically, with an impending thumping for the Republican Party next Tuesday. So I guess we should just consider this stuff as a vent, the early phase of grief. Let’s have a cursory look at some [...]
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Presidential polls stable, Palin and McCain’s brother a little less so
There has been a slight tightening in the national polls over the last 24 hours. The realclearpolitics average has Obama leading by 7.4%, pollster also by 7.4%, fivethirtyeight by 6%, and TPM at 6.3%. Fivethirtyeight also has the livelihood of an Obama victory at 96.7%. Meanwhile, more weird stuff from the growing Palin file. She [...]
READ MORERepublicans lose ugly
There is not much in the way of ‘grace under pressure’ as the republicans contemplate a disaster next week. Some even see the Republican party coming apart at the seams. I certainly agree that they are right to think that a big Obama victory will bring a generational shift like the one Reagan secured in [...]
READ MORE10 days to go: Obama well ahead; McCain ticket fraying
Realclearpolitics has the average lead at 8.0 and Pollster.com has the average lead at 9.0, The lead has grown steadily in the last few days. Obama’s vote is at its highest ever and the lead is the widest ever. There is evidence that the McCain-Palin ticket is fraying under the pressure: Even as John McCain [...]
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Bob Carr’s one-sided view of Obama
In the Sun-Herald today, former NSW Premier Bob Carr retells the case for choosing Senator Hillary Clinton over Senator Obama namely she is white with a nice white sounding name: The brutal truth is that Obama’s was not the ideal biography for someone seeking to vault over three centuries of race prejudice. There’s the Arabic [...]
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