It has been a delight playing the role of diversity show here in the locker room, but that time of joy must come to an end. I haven’t been around much lately, but I have carried the weight of my presumptive blogging responsibility on my shoulders, as I am wont to do. And […]

instead of knee-jerk political responses. One of the most lovely changes that we see these days is the return of some intelligence, the banishment of superficial political responses to difficult problems.
Today we have Zbigniew Brzezinski telling Joe Scarborough (who inexplicably still has a three hour show daily on MSNBC) that his understanding of the […]

The meme du jour seems to view Barack Hussein Obama as the rightful heir of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, as the progenitor of the New New Deal. Franklin Delano Obama is the subject of a Paul Krugman piece that argues for bold economic strokes and audacity. But he is an economist. We […]

I’ll go with this guy, who says that Obama has a 95% chance of winning between 303 and 381 electoral votes and a 99.8% chance of winning the election. Sure, a coal black swan from Hell is not totally impossible–just look at what the markets have done. I take comfort, however, from the fivethirtyeight.com and […]

I’m on a crusade about voter suppression. I think that one of the most important things a new president and congress can do is to fix the voting system so that everyone can vote. And I made that clear to the House leadership last week. More on that later.
Now kudos to a […]

As of this morning, nicely assembled by Jerome Armstrong at MyDD
 
Quinnipiac:
Florida: Obama 49, McCain 44
Ohio: Obama 52, McCain 38
Pennsylvania: Obama 53, McCain 40
Big Ten:
Illinois: Obama 61, McCain 32
Indiana: Obama 51, McCain 41
Iowa: Obama 52, McCain 39
Ohio: Obama 53, McCain 41
Michigan: Obama 58, McCain 36
Minnesota: Obama 57, McCain 38
Pennsylvania: Obama 52, McCain 41
Wisconsin: Obama 53, McCain […]

h/t tristero at Hullabaloo

Marc Ambinder, the Atlantic Monthly author who was among the first to calculate that Obama would win the Democratic primary, has posted some interesting data on how people of different religious preferences split between McCain and Obama. I note that the survey cited was conducted in June-August. I wonder what the numbers would look like now.

Natasha Chart, writing on MyDD, quotes Ben White at the New York Times,
 
The billionaire Warren E. Buffett will invest $5 billion in the investment bank Goldman Sachs, as part of the bank’s efforts to raise $7.5 billion in fresh capital, a Goldman spokesman, Lucas Van Praag, said Tuesday. 
In return, Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate run by […]

Stepping to the forefront in the name of public service is the right thing to do. Perfectly tailored physical specimen maybe even drinks the same liquid diet stuff some of the Skins and the Bears do to stay on top of their game. Everybody knew that Shrubby couldn’t run a business. And Lord Cheney knows […]