Somebody say it was time for a thread title change?

Okay, so Obama really has no excuse if he doesn't wipe the floor with McCain. McCain is as far from the common man as anyone, with his wife flying him around in her private jet.

And he can fuck right off too. Maybe that should be the thread title?

Who would have thought that his endorsing McCain would make me hate Berlusconi just a little bit less.

I was thinking of resurrecting this thread for Fox News's latest example of professionalism.

. . . or their latest but one example of professionalism.

Racist AND stupid. A heady combination.

Micro-polling is a load of fucking shite

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A poll by the Washington Post/ABC published yesterday recorded that 46% of Democrats favoured Clinton as the vice-presidential candidate. No other potential running mate made it out of single digits. The poll puts Obama ahead of the Republican candidate John McCain by 48% to 42%. Among independents, who could hold the key to the election, the two candidates are about even.

Has any other VP candidate spent tens of millions of dollars getting the face on TV for the past 7 months? And what's the point in the 'independents' polling separately to the main poll? Surely if they are evenly split, then Obama is more appealing to his base than Mcain, which makes this next bit irrelevant:

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The Obama team does not want her on the ticket, in spite of her accumulating 18m votes during the campaign and being more successful than him in attracting women, Latinos and white working-class males.

I mean, for fuck's sake. She lost, but she didn't lose among people who like raspberry jam. How is Obama going to appeal to the raspberry jam constituency? What about their very important hopes and fears, that are only met by Hillary Clinton?

He's not going to pick HRC.

The campaign just hired Patti Solis Doyle (HRC's former campaign manager) as the Chief of Staff for the VP candidate, and she isn't exactly enamored of the Clintons after being thrown under the bus to cover for Mark Penn.

But...she was an idiot, wasn't she? Letting the campaign go bankrupt, not having a plan B...why does Obama want her?

It isn't completely clear how much of an idiot she was, and how much responsibility she actually had for what happened. Penn's pawprints appear to have been all over the "f*ck the small states" strategy, and he also appears to be the source of much of the mudslinging at Doyle.

In any event, Chief of Staff to a potential Veep isn't exactly National Security Advisor. And she must have had some positive qualities for HRC to have worked with her for 8 years.

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In any event, Chief of Staff to a potential Veep isn't exactly National Security Advisor.

*cough*David Addington*cough*

Was Addington there for the campaign?

My understanding is that this is a campaign only post, and that the veep would get to pick his or her own person if they win.

Ohmigod ohmigod.

What a fabulous site for polling nerds.

And also, it says things are looking very, very good for Obama.

Ah, he's been nuancing that position ever since the primaries ended, and big time since he began the "economic tour". Only because it's a speech in Canada, reported by a Canadian paper, and written by somebody who doesn't appear to have paid any attention to the policy aspect of the campaign since Ohio, does that appear a radical shift of message.

Meanwhile, remember his Appalachia problem? Turns out it was entirely down to Clinton's racist smear campaign.

Oh, and it looks like Barr may be hurting McSame really badly. Latest polls in Georgia have him on six percent, with McSame only one point ahead of Obama. That's Georgia.

This is starting to look like a landslide.

Edit: Drat, I dawdled and was beaten to the 538-linking punch.