Archive for October, 2008

I didn’t go to Harvard but I think $150MM > $47MM and 400 staffers > 100

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

In case you haven't heard the news, Obama has an enormous money advantage going into the final 2 weeks. He raised an incredible $150MM in the month of October. From Real Clear Politics: Republican presidential candidate John McCain reports spending $37 million in September and has $47 million for ...

14 Days to go; get ready for the mother of all negative campaigns

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

Slate forecast: Obama 313 McCain 157 Electoral-vote.com: Obama 364 McCain 71 I wrote in a previous post that McCain seemed to be running a less intelligent version of the Bush/Rove '04 campaign; less intelligent in that the brilliance of ...

News Flash; Obama suspending campaign activities to visit ailing grandmother in Hawaii

Monday, October 20th, 2008

Full post from The Caucus

15 Days to go; SNL’s Palin Rap

Monday, October 20th, 2008

Slate Poll Tracker (data from Pollster.com) Obama 313 McCain 157 Electoral-Vote.com: Obama 364 McCain 171 In case you missed it, here is the Palin Rap from SNL:

16 days to go: Obama WV campaign; fundraising; Powell Endorsement

Sunday, October 19th, 2008

Iphone app now called Slate Poll Tracker '08 Obama 313 McCain 160 Tossup 65 This is one of those days where there is just too much to report on. Before leaving for church, I saw this great article ...

19 Days to go, Say it ain’t so Joe

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

Iphone electoral vote app now called "Slate Poll Tracker" Obama 313 McCain 155 In case you haven't heard, the man referred to over and over during Wednesday's debate as "Joe the Plumber" is neither a plumber nor making $250K a year. Here's part of a Politico post ...

MSNBC Analysis of Debate and state of the race

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

Andy Richardson just sent this to me. A well done summary of yesterdays developments. Watch the clip if you have a few minutes. Here's a summary: 1. McCain played well to the base in last night's debates, but did nothing to reach out to independents 2. Obama reached out to independents ...

Flash poll from tonights debate

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

I am only now watching the debate in its entirety, but wanted to pass along 2 quick things. See the NYT The Caucus "First impressions from the last debate." CNN is broadcasting the following flash poll results: Who did the best job in the debate? Obama 57% McCain 31% Manage the economy Obama 59% McCain 39% Manage the ...

20 Days to go – With friends like these, who needs enemies?

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Iphone says:  Obama 364  McCain 174 Obviously the big event is tonight - Debate at Hofstra University. I will send around some recommendations on live blogs and pre-debate anaylsis and "what to watch for" from people that don't have other jobs/work today! In the meantime, I wanted to make sure you are aware ...

Campaign de ja vu?

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

Is it just me or does it feel like Obama is running a better version of Clinton’s 1992 campaign, while McCain is running a weaker version of Bush 2004? Clinton’s 1992 (or probably more correctly Carville’s) mantra was: “It’s the economy, stupid;” “Speed kills;” and “Don’t forget health care.” “Speed kills” ...