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Obama Wins Big In Second Presidential Debate
I totally agree with Taegan Goddard’s impression of the second presidential debate: “Tonight’s debate wasn’t even close. Sen. Barack Obama ran away with it,” “In co...
Obama Video on Keating 5 Scandal Released
Earlier I posted a preview of a documentary from the Obama campaign on the Keating 5 scandal along with some information. The full video is now posted above. The site keatingeconomics.com contains add...
Obama To Use Keating 5 In Response to McCain’s Smears About Obama’s Past
John McCain plans to launch a new series of smears against Barack Obama this week based upon distorted accounts of association with others. This is a rather desperate move on McCain’s part consi...
Economists Prefer Policies of Obama Over McCain and Bush
From a survey in the conservative news magazine The Economist it appears that many economists, regardless of party affiliation, agree with the view I have expressed many times, most recently here, tha...
Why McCain Is Losing And the Conservative Era Has Ended
Hugh Hewitt ignores the polls and argues that John McCain will close and win. It is a post worth reading to better understand why not only John McCain but the Republican Party is losing across the boa...
Biden Wins Debate As Palin Avoids Answering Questions
The second debate resulted in another win for the Obama/Biden ticket but it will probably not have much effect on the race. The major accomplishment of this debate was to put an end to the idea that t...
Obama on Tax Cuts
Obama is running another two minute ad, this time on his plan for tax cuts to the middle class and small business (video above)....
Polls Show Obama Won Debate And Extends Lead Over McCain
The past week might very well turn out to be seen as the week that Barack Obama clinched the election.Going into the first debate Obama had already moved into a five point lead as voters began thinkin...
Obama Wins First Debate
Despite John McCain’s purchase of internet ads earlier in the day proclaiming victory before he even agreed to participate, the first debate turned out to be a win for Barack Obama. Obama was ...
McCain’s Presence Essential To Pass A Plan He Hasn’t Read
Yesterday John McCain felt it was urgent to suspend his campaign and return to Washington to work on the financial crisis despite not having voted in Congress since April. He doesn’t help to mak...
McCain Campaign Chair on Freddic Mac Payroll Until Last Month
Despite denials from John McCain, The New York TImes now reports that connections between his campaign manager and Freddie Mac were more recent than previously reported–continuing until last mon...
George Will Thinks John McCain Has Lost His Head
It has become commonplace to see centrist columnists who have been favorable to McCain write columns opposing him since he resorted to a dishonest Rove-style campaign. It is less expected to see McCai...
McCain Campaign’s Connection to Loan Companies Stronger Than Previously Reported
A few days ago I noted that John McCain put out a dishonest ad trying to connect Barack Obama to Fannie Mae and received two Pinocchios from The Factchecker at The Washington Post. The New York Times ...
McCain Leads Obama 13 to 1 and Why You Should Vote for Obama
John McCain leads Barack Obama in number of cars owned. Barack and Michelle Obama own one car while McCain owns thirteen. When you have nine or so houses (with nobody yet agreeing on an exact count), ...
Points Obama Must Make
Now that the media has stopped covering Sarah Palin every second and Obama has the opportunity to take the offensive there are two main points he must make on domestic policy: Most Americans will rec...
Obama Repeats Call For Middle Class Tax Cuts
First Read Reports that Obama raised the importance of middle class tax cuts in the face of the financial crisis on Wall Street: “There is a relationship between economic stimulus that I think needs...
McCain Didn’t See The Crisis Coming
We are still not getting straight talk from John McCain. Jake Tapper exposes that McCain is not telling the truth here when he claims to have warmed about the financial crisis: “Two years ago, I...
Obama Talks About Financial Crisis
While television ads typically are limited to thirty seconds and are limited to sound bites, Obama is gambling on the idea that Americans are more intelligent and concerned about the recent problems i...
Economists for Obama
Maybe they just don’t like John McCain because he doesn’t know much about their field, but Economists for Obama posts a survey showing that 66% of economists support Obama over McCain....
How About Some Plans From The Candidates?
Megan McArdle sees through John McCain’s call for a commission to figure out a solution to the crisis with the financial markets: So John McCain wants a commission on what to do about the financ...
Even A Member of McCain’s Family Is Shocked By How He Has Changed
Many people have already noticed how much John McCain has changed. Instead of delivering straight talk he has been running a campaign so dishonest that even Karl Rove and Fox News have objected. Previ...
John McCain Invented The BlackBerry and Other Silly Stories
The silly stories continue. While we are not hearing as much about pigs or lipstick, one of the top stories today is the report that John McCain invented the BlackBerry. AP reports: Move over, Al Gore...
Fox News Again Exposes McCain Lies on Obama’s Tax Proposals
This has been a remarkable election year, and one of the most remarkable things has been that Fox News has now repeatedly been exposing lies from the McCain campaign. Apparently they have become so di...
John McCain’s Very Bad Day
This has been a very bad day for John McCain. Besides losing his post-convention lead in the polls as they return to a tie within the margin of error, the media has increasingly discussed the dishones...
Sarah Palin, Tax & Spend Conservative
Sarah Palin is a strong social conservative, but as I have shown in numerous previous posts, she is no fiscal conservative. CBS News (via Marc Ambinder) has even obtained an email from Palin in which ...
Sarah Palin’s Lack of Success At Cutting Government Spending
While Sarah Palin spends lots of money on items such as travel expenses for her family, some fiscal conservatives are willing to overlook this because of the belief that she has been cutting governmen...
Sarah Palin, Big Spender
Republicans are masters of getting elected by pretending to be things far different from what they really are. Many are as skilled at deceiving the voters as they are incompetent at governing. In addi...
Shooting Down The Maverick Myth
Above is the latest ad from Obama to take on the claims that McCain and Palin are mavericks (via Marc Ambinder). There is far more which could be said on this subject in a thirty second spot. I have o...
Palin Was No Tax Cutter
The choice of Sarah Palin shows the influence of the religious right on McCain’s campaign, but neither he or Palinl offer very much to fiscal conservatives. Her record on por-barrel spending is ...
Fox Debunks McCain’s Lies on Obama’s Tax Plans Once Again
It seemed like a miracle when it happened a few weeks ago. Fox News revealed that the McCain campaign was stating false information about Obama’s tax proposals in their attacks. Believe it or no...