http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aLrMAMEn0e_I&refer=home
Great sign
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a5XvwdXHVOuM&refer=home
Hey that is a good sign of things to come
I just got back from a day starting at 5:30am in New Albany, OH (Columbus, OH subs). It was a long day but it was SOOOOO worth it
We delivered OH to OBAMA!
Thank you everyone
Now I am tired
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/11/monday-polling.html
Good info that helps bring it to a close
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/02/shuster-mccain-flack-batt_n_140186.html
He deserves his own show
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/03/voting-lines-stretch-to-e_n_140401.html
I actually look at this in a positive way, it shows people are excited and people are voting
NBC News/Wall St. Jrnl 11/01 - 11/02 1011 LV 3.1 51 43 Obama +8
Rasmussen Reports 10/31 - 11/02 3000 LV 2.0 52 46 Obama +6
Gallup 10/31 - 11/02 2472 LV 2.0 55 44 Obama +11
Diageo/Hotline 10/31 - 11/02 887 LV 3.3 50 45 Obama +5
Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby 10/31 - 11/02 1201 LV 2.9 51 44 Obama +7
CNN/Opinion Research 10/30 - 11/01 714 LV 3.5 53 46 Obama +7
CBS News 10/30 - 11/01 607 LV -- 54 41 Obama +13
GWU/Battleground 10/29 - 11/02 800 LV 3.5 50 44 Obama +6
Pew Research 10/29 - 11/01 2587 LV 2.0 52 46 Obama +6
IBD/TIPP 10/29 - 11/01 844 LV 3.4 47 45 Obama +2 A
BC News/Wash Post 10/29 - 11/01 2172 LV 2.5 54 43 Obama +11
Marist 10/29 - 10/29 543 LV 4.5 50 43 Obama +7
http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2008/10/29/hockey_mom/
This is really funny
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/11/3/81935/3337/840/649033
Not bad at all
FL- Obama 47, Mccain 45 PA- Obama 52, Mccain 42 OH- Obama 50, Mccain 43
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/11/understanding-1.html
A reader writes:
I think it is very simple. I was with a woman this week who is in her sixties. She told me that she has voted Republican her entire life and this year she is voting for Obama. Her reason; John McCain is too erratic and too much of a hot head and Sarah Palin is completely unqualified. I think many "Obamacons" simply love this country more than they do their ideology.
Another adds:
Larison suggests that Obama is an unthinkable option for a real conservative. This is simply wrong. Many of the Obamacons are not just deciding it's more important to punish McCain; they actually believe Obama will result in a government as small or smaller than that of McCain, that he will pursue a more conservative agenda in foreign affairs, and that his social policy, based on a combination of libertarian values and personal morality will also be more conservative overall.
Part of the Obamacon phenomenon is certainly a rejection of McCain. But this is missing something. Some pro-lifers, for example, are beginning to embrace the idea that the best way to reduce abortions is to flood society with life-positive options, including more money for low-income health care. This has especially taken hold among Catholic pro-lifers as opposed to evangelicals because there is a deep and strong tradition for social welfare in the Catholic world.Obama embodies this type of thinking to his soul. I think, and I could be projecting here a bit, that the reason for the size of the Obamacon phenomenon is that some conservatives in the libertarian, realist, and religious categories are acting on the sense that Obama is one of them. It's not about any one policy. It's that when they hear him talk, they recognize their own kind of thinking. He is reasoned, thoughtful, temperate, ethical. While they may worry about this policy or that, they have a gut feeling that they trust him to be making the decisions.
Part of the Obamacon phenomenon is certainly a rejection of McCain. But this is missing something. Some pro-lifers, for example, are beginning to embrace the idea that the best way to reduce abortions is to flood society with life-positive options, including more money for low-income health care. This has especially taken hold among Catholic pro-lifers as opposed to evangelicals because there is a deep and strong tradition for social welfare in the Catholic world.
Obama embodies this type of thinking to his soul. I think, and I could be projecting here a bit, that the reason for the size of the Obamacon phenomenon is that some conservatives in the libertarian, realist, and religious categories are acting on the sense that Obama is one of them. It's not about any one policy. It's that when they hear him talk, they recognize their own kind of thinking. He is reasoned, thoughtful, temperate, ethical. While they may worry about this policy or that, they have a gut feeling that they trust him to be making the decisions.
That certainly captures his appeal to me.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/11/face-of-the-day.html
Oh the dog is so cute
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/11/obamacon-watch.html
wow they keep coming:
Jeffrey Hart, one of the intellectual founders of modern American conservatism, founder of the Dartmouth Review, and a private source of much intellectual solace these past few years, makes it all explicit:
Republican President George W. Bush has not been a conservative at all, either in domestic policy or in foreign policy. He invaded Iraq on the basis of abstract theory, the very thing Burke warned against. Bush aimed to turn Iraq into a democracy, “a beacon of liberty in the Middle East,” as he explained in a radio address in April 2006. I do not recall any “conservative” publication mentioning those now memorable words “Sunni,” “Shia,” or “Kurds.” Burke would have been appalled at the blindness to history and to social facts that characterized the writing of those so-called conservatives.Obama did understand.
Republican President George W. Bush has not been a conservative at all, either in domestic policy or in foreign policy. He invaded Iraq on the basis of abstract theory, the very thing Burke warned against. Bush aimed to turn Iraq into a democracy, “a beacon of liberty in the Middle East,” as he explained in a radio address in April 2006.
I do not recall any “conservative” publication mentioning those now memorable words “Sunni,” “Shia,” or “Kurds.” Burke would have been appalled at the blindness to history and to social facts that characterized the writing of those so-called conservatives.
Obama did understand.
In his now famous 2002 speech, while he was still a state senator in Illinois, he said: “I know that a successful war against Iraq will require a US occupation of undetermined length, of undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences. I know that an invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and without international support will fan the flames of the Middle East, and encourage the worst, rather than the best, impulses of the Arab world, and strengthen the recruitment arm of al Qaeda. I’m not opposed to all wars. I’m opposed to dumb wars.” Burke would have agreed entirely, and admired the cogency of so few words. And one thing I know is that both Nixon and Reagan would have agreed. Both were prudential and successful conservatives. But all the organs of the conservative movement followed Bush over the cliff—as did John McCain.
In his now famous 2002 speech, while he was still a state senator in Illinois, he said: “I know that a successful war against Iraq will require a US occupation of undetermined length, of undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences. I know that an invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and without international support will fan the flames of the Middle East, and encourage the worst, rather than the best, impulses of the Arab world, and strengthen the recruitment arm of al Qaeda. I’m not opposed to all wars. I’m opposed to dumb wars.”
Burke would have agreed entirely, and admired the cogency of so few words. And one thing I know is that both Nixon and Reagan would have agreed. Both were prudential and successful conservatives. But all the organs of the conservative movement followed Bush over the cliff—as did John McCain.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/11/the-view-from-3.html
Ohio will be for OBAMA!!!!
reader writes:
I voted yesterday at the Montgomery County, Ohio, board of elections building in downtown Dayton and it will an event I will remember for a long time. It took 3.5 hours of waiting in three separate areas until my number was called. I was number 23XX and the queue was moving in groups of ten. When my number was called and I was sitting at the desk of one of the poll volunteers I had a few minutes to ask her impressions. She said that the day before some 3,000 people came out to vote but she was shocked by Saturday's turnout. She went on to say that the Red Cross has donated cots so the polling volunteers have something to sleep on, so I guess they're staying overnight in the building. Then to top it off, when I get to a makeshift booth I was next to a blind guy who kept asking where the lever was to make his selection. The lady with him explained that there is no lever and then he responded that this is the first time he has voted in 30 years. By the time I finished, I met back with my wife. She said the election officials were handing out numbers in the 8000 range.
I voted yesterday at the Montgomery County, Ohio, board of elections building in downtown Dayton and it will an event I will remember for a long time. It took 3.5 hours of waiting in three separate areas until my number was called. I was number 23XX and the queue was moving in groups of ten. When my number was called and I was sitting at the desk of one of the poll volunteers I had a few minutes to ask her impressions. She said that the day before some 3,000 people came out to vote but she was shocked by Saturday's turnout. She went on to say that the Red Cross has donated cots so the polling volunteers have something to sleep on, so I guess they're staying overnight in the building.
Then to top it off, when I get to a makeshift booth I was next to a blind guy who kept asking where the lever was to make his selection. The lady with him explained that there is no lever and then he responded that this is the first time he has voted in 30 years. By the time I finished, I met back with my wife. She said the election officials were handing out numbers in the 8000 range.
On Tuesday, I'll be opening up the blog all day to you, the readers, until the polls close. Call it: The View From Your Election. Send me anecdotes, stories, and photos that capture what your election day was like. Keep them short if you can, and no photos in polling places. But let's have a record of what the day will be like, in all its varieties.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/11/mccains-only-pa.html
Thank you Chuck Todd
http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/11/for_obama_is_arizona_realistic.php
interesting analysis,I think he can
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/11/my-wife-made-me.html
And this white middle-aged banker who voted for Bush discovered what's actually happening:
Instead of walking the tree-lined streets near our home, my wife and I were instructed to canvass a housing project. A middle-aged white couple with clipboards could not look more out of place in this predominantly black neighborhood. We knocked on doors and voices from behind carefully locked doors shouted, "Who is it?" "We're from the Obama campaign," we'd answer. And just like that doors opened and folks with wide smiles came out on the porch to talk.
Instead of walking the tree-lined streets near our home, my wife and I were instructed to canvass a housing project. A middle-aged white couple with clipboards could not look more out of place in this predominantly black neighborhood. We knocked on doors and voices from behind carefully locked doors shouted, "Who is it?" "We're from the Obama campaign," we'd answer.
And just like that doors opened and folks with wide smiles came out on the porch to talk.
Grandmothers kept one hand on their grandchildren and made sure they had all the information they needed for their son or daughter to vote for the first time. Young people came to the door rubbing sleep from their eyes to find out where they could vote early, to make sure their vote got counted. We knocked on every door we could find and checked off every name on our list. We did our job, but Obama may not have been the one who got the most out of the day's work.
Read the whole thing. It gave me goose-bumps.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/11/i-apologize-to.html
Oh no, I think he said it best the first time
