…it’s unclear why Newsweek didn’t try drilling down for the more predictive sample.

No, Ed, it’s not, unless you impute impartiality to them, which I do not. They are shills and partisans–I’ll restrain myself from using the t-word.

McCain/Palin ’08

Ah, electricity just came back on here in Houston! I was going through acute HotAir withdrawals!

Neocon Peg on September 13, 2008 at 9:52 PM

Good show. All in all, not too bad, eh?

Excuse me? Her accent sounds pretty normal to me… well not quite there is BC in there too, me thinks.

petunia on September 13, 2008 at 2:36 PM

Heh. I love her dialect, and I am convinced that some voters hear little inflections in the voice and they resonate. “This person sounds like me.” Especially when the rest of the candidates don’t “sound like me”.

She has that northerner thing, where about is “aboot”.

Still wondering about a regional impact from Palin. I’ll never hear a word about that from the liberal media, but that’s what I wonder. Washington – close enough to Alaska to talk funny.

Jaibones on September 13, 2008 at 12:23 PM

Excuse me? Her accent sounds pretty normal to me… well not quite there is BC in there too, me thinks.

I hate to raise false hopes, but those results don’t reflect Washington state’s recent tightening in the race. I know it’s a long shot, but maybe…

Tommygun on September 13, 2008 at 9:03 AM

Please please Wash have the courage to clean up your own politcs and elect McCain. That is my native state. It is unbelievable the freedom we had there when I was growing up and how the California transplants have ruined it.

The East side is always conservative…and it has always been only KIng county votes that made any difference. One county determines the whole state. But I know the despictable recount last time has people pretty mad there!

Fifty-seven percent of registered voters did not know that Palin opposes abortion even in instances of rape and incest. Sixty-nine percent did not know that she favors teaching creationism in public schools
Nice to see the MSM pushing the creation in schools meme, even through polling.

lodge on September 13, 2008 at 8:54 AM

Someone needs to yell the truth here from the roof tops. This lie is quickly becoming the “truth” that everyone knows.

Hotline/FD tracking: McCain +1%
Gallup Tracking: McCain +2%

And, via Rasmussen, a Nevada poll of likely voters: McCain +3%

Slowly, but surely.

Some 527 needs to get to the important issue of Obama’s character and personal honesty. I think he flat out lied about the flipping Hillary off and the lipstick thing. I don’t know how you prove that but I bet there are other flat out lies that can be proven. Plus, the dishonesty that he is willing to be bi-partisan. Nothing he has ever done supports that.

And lastly. Attacking a war-hero’s handicap is the dirtiest thing I have ever seen in politics. (computer ad) They will say they didn’t know. So what! That is what they did. I haven’t heard an apology! It is despictable. And if that doesn’t show the character of Barack Obama I don’t know what would. He is petty. He is power hungry to the point of maniacal. No moral compass…That should be hammered.

…police found 52 bags of heroin in their car that had OBAMA and an image of the Democratic presidential candidate stamped on them

Obvious “Community Organizer” “earmarks”………

there fixed it.

…police found 52 bags of heroin in their car that had OBAMA and an image of the Democratic presidential candidate stamped on them

Obvious “Community Oranizer” “earmarks”………

…police found 52 bags of heroin in their car that had OBAMA and an image of the Democratic presidential candidate stamped on them

My collie says:

They were jusr 5 states short of a full load.

They were short because many of their Al Qaeda/Taliban friends in Afghanistan have been having some difficulty bringing in the Opium crop.

Would be nice to pick off a big blue state like Michigan/Pennsylvania for insurance just in case Virginia goes bonkers.

SouthernGent on September 13, 2008 at 10:56 AM

Virginia won’t. Let’s put it this way: In 2006 Allen lost by just 10,000 votes to Jim Webb, a guy that ran as a conservative.

There was very low Republican turnout and extremely high BDS turnout. And Jim Webb, who campaigned as a conservative, barely won.

There will be much higher conservative turnout this election. Obama is not a conservative Democrat. Independents won’t be voting for a socialist.

I never thought in a million years that Washington would be a tossup.

Lehosh on September 13, 2008 at 9:14 AM

Still wondering about a regional impact from Palin. I’ll never hear a word about that from the liberal media, but that’s what I wonder. Washington – close enough to Alaska to talk funny.

Can’t wait for Team Obama to finally take the gloves off and hit back.

slap fight < counter punching
Obamas glass jaw is going to shatter like Sarah’s shattering the glass ceiling

Shape up.

GOOGLE: Saul Alinsky. He was the mentor for Obama and Hillary did her paper at Wellsley. He wrote the book, “Rules for Radicals.”

volsense on September 13, 2008 at 8:51 AM

Uh…dude?

January 30, 1909, Chicago, Illinois – June 12, 1972

Alinsky died when Obama was 10. Let’s be careful with our “facts”.

(No, I don’t care.)

Tommygun on September 13, 2008 at 9:57 AM

Rat, tat ,tat!

52 bags of heroin in their car that had OBAMA and an image of the Democratic presidential candidate stamped on them

The base of the Dhimmicrat party speaks out once again.

Think of the thousands of budding Republican politicos who saw this election turned on its head by putting an unapologetic, unafraid conservative on the ticket.

Leftists, in contrast, win by hiding who they are.