Two secret ballots, the first is apparent to all and the second maybe only to me. Joe Lieberman has been standing unabashedly in front of the Democrats of the US Senate daring them to shove him down. Go ahead he says take away Homeland Security and I’ll go play with the republicans. Some, including the [...]

The Washington Post has an editorial up endorsing Barack Obama for president. The editorial board begins by advising of their respect over the years for Senator McCain. They however are not “ambivalent” in their choice of Obama.
The choice is made easy in part by Mr. McCain’s disappointing campaign, above all his irresponsible selection of [...]

Obama takes McCain to the cleaners, transcript here. McCain calls Obama, “that one,” Obama calls out McCain on distortions about telegraphing our punches and McCain’s flip flops on deregulation. To paraphrase the estimable BTD at TalkLeft it’s Obama going away. I can’t wait to see the polls in Virginia, Nevada, Ohio, Florida and Wisconsin in [...]

Poll after Poll show the McCain ticket is headed for a defeat of classic proportions unless then can stem the tide. Many believe that given the state of the economy a reversal is unlikely without a colossal blunder by Obama. His tight operation and his measured responses would seem to render that unlikely though.
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The McCain campaign wants to move on:
The Arizonan’s campaign is also eager to move the conversation away from the economy, an issue that strongly favors Obama and has helped him to a lead in many recent polls.
Wonder why they’d want to do that? Speaking in North Carolina Senator Obama is curious too:
Senator McCain’s campaign has [...]

Via Ben Smith’s Blog Barack Obama on the bailout:
The breakthrough between Congress and the Administration is the culmination of a sorry period in our history, in which reckless speculation and greed on Wall Street and lax oversight from Washington led to a meltdown of our financial markets. But regardless of how we got here, a [...]

Watching Barack Obama just now on CNN I got the distinct impression I was watching a leader. He was very presidential, he portrayed an energetic, concerned, knowledgeable presence. I would love to see him in Oxford tomorrow whether John McCain appears or not (have we precluded remote attendance?) and then at a presser in Washington, [...]