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You will read or hear that the flash polls conducted by CBS of uncommitted voters showed that Biden "won" the debate: Forty-six percent of the uncommitted voters surveyed say Democrat Joe Biden won the debate, compared to 21 percent for Republican Sarah Palin. Thirty-three percent said it was a tie. CNN had similar results: Fifty-one percent of those polled thought … Read More

The winks. That’s what stayed with me the most thinking about the debate this morning.  Palin’s winking. It caused me to pose this question: "If Palin were a woman who looked like, oh, Helen Thomas or Margaret Thatcher or Hillary Clinton or even an actual typical soccer/hockey mom from middle America, would she get away with that?" I don’t think … Read More

8:40 pm:  McCain was on Fox News today, saying the bailout bill — which McCain voted for — is a catastrophic bill which will lead the country into financial ruin.  Now, maybe McCain was having a "senior moment" and meant to say that the thing the bill was meant to fix was catastrophic.  But then, McCain said that Bush should … Read More

The GOP saw Michigan as a vulnerable blue state.  McCain and Palin have been there; they were planning to go back (that visit has been cancelled).  Staffers, offices and advertising have all been pulled from the state. What does that mean?  It means what we’ve known for a few days now: McCain is losing in swing states, and even being … Read More

Another screw-up: In an answer to questions about her foreign policy experience ahead of tonight’s make-or-break vice presidential TV debate, her aides listed numerous contacts with foreign officials – including Britain’s ambassador to Washington, Sir  Nigel Sheinwald. However the meeting never occurred. Officials at the embassy swiftly contacted the  McCain-Palin campaign to inform them of the discrepancy. A British Embassy … Read More

If Palin tries to bolster her qualifieds by making the point that her state (Alaska) is 239 times larger than Delaware (Biden’s state), then — except for the handful of diehard rightwing monkeys who will go "Yeah!  She’s RIGHT!" — it’s over for the McCain campaign.

You know, if this is only half-truths, it is still very devestating and a must-read. For example, you know the story about McCain refusing an offer by his Hanoi captors to be released, because other servicemen weren’t also being released?  Well….. What McCain glosses over is that accepting early release would have required him to make disloyal statements that would … Read More

Yeah, I might.  Sox aren’t playing tonight, right? The folks at Vanity Fair have already liveblogged it.

Just in case you’ve been under a rock (or not reading this blog), here’s a nice TPM compilation of most of Sarah’s blunderings in interviews, all in one place. (Does not include her Roe v Wade muff-up)…

Really, don’t:

I’m not one of the Obama supporters who is gleeful that Palin’s performance tonight will be viewed as a trainwreck a la the Couric interviews. She won’t have a trainwreck. She will be warm and personable, but tough.  She will go on the offensive, taking opportunities to point out, for example, where Biden and Obama have disagreed on policy.  (Also, … Read More

Oh, Lord… Okay.  I’m not the first to say this, but I’ll say it for those who haven’t heard the analogy. You go to class — undergrad, law school, whatever.  You haven’t done the required reading.  You are asked by the professor some question relevant to the assignment you didn’t do.  For some reason, you decide to answer (rather than … Read More

After Barack Obama’s speech today in Wisconsin, the McCain campaign sent out a press release, whining that: As Americans teeter on the edge of economic crisis, Barack Obama continued attacking John McCain today… And here is the "attack" by Obama: Let me lay this out, because I want everybody to know the differences between myself and Senator McCain in this … Read More

As you probably know, Sarah dodged Couric’s question. (If not, here’s a reminder….) But since that time, a photo has turned up…. [Original photo appears here] Somebody enhanced the photo to read what she is reading…. What is she reading?  That’s the cover of The New American, the magazine of the ultra conservative John Birch Society.  More info here.