England for Obama

Highly recommended if you didn’t see it all last night:

As highlighted by Bob Cesca:

Erm, probably, yes.

A common worry among us liberals is that at the last minute, people will decide to not vote for Barack Obama because he’s black. It’s called ‘the Bradley effect’ - a political phenomenon named after the former Los Angeles mayor, Tom Bradley, who ran to be governor of California and who lost, despite being consistently ahead in the polls in the run-up to election day. The suspicion being that many people who said they were going to vote for him simply couldn’t bring themselves to do it because he was - yikes - black, and had lied to the pollsters about that fact.

I for one have always suspected that the racist voter contingency in this election are a) already saying that they’re voting for John McCain - they’re just not being honest about why; and b) likely to be outweighed by a combination of young voters, first time voters, and the percentage of the populace who will vote for Obama precisely because he is black.

And that aside, Ben Smith on Politico has already suggested that Obama could benefit from a reverse Bradley effect - while polling expert Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight has also argued that the Bradley effect is nothing to be worried about in this election.

Keith Olbermann looked at the issue on his show last night:

Lee Stranahan continues his countdown:

J.O.B.S. Yesterday in Ohio:

Soooomeone’s getting ready to be preeeeesident..!

Now, I’m not saying that his Messianic qualities include the ability to see into the future. But now we know how Obama is managing to remain so calm and unruffled - and tactically sound - in the face of the current Angry Mob tactics. He predicted this line of attack from the GOP, down to the very last word. Just take a look:

I hope he repeats this idea - the thinking behind these attacks, and the acknowledgment that change is hard, but necessary - in the final presidential debate. I think the timing would be perfect.

Barack is interviewed by Charlie Gibson about the revival of the William Ayers ’story’ - and notes that John McCain “wasn’t willing to say it to my face”:

Meanwhile, here’s footage of Sarah Palin “pallin’ around” with the Alaskan Independence Party - a group who don’t seem to like America very much, either, and whose founder was what some might call “a domestic terrorist” (what with him inciting people to take arms up against their own country and being found dead surrounded by explosives, an’ all). Sarah’s husband - sorry, first dude - Todd was a member of the AIP until a few years ago; and Sarah Palin filmed the welcome video below for the AIP convention last year:

As Salon says:

“Imagine the uproar if Michelle Obama was revealed to have joined a black nationalist party whose founder preached armed secession from the United States and who enlisted the government of Iran in his cause? The Obama campaign would probably not have survived such an explosive revelation. Particularly if Barack Obama himself was videotaped giving the anti-American secessionists his wholehearted support just months ago.”

(Thanks to AK Muckraker.)

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The current economic crisis demands that we understand John McCain’s attitudes about economic oversight and corporate influence in federal regulation. Nothing illustrates the danger of his approach more clearly than his central role in the savings and loan scandal of the late ’80s and early ’90s.

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‘It’s OK to like someone - but you don’t have to vote for them’. Genius:

Enjoy.