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Off the Bus: Marc Cooper on What President Obama Means(3)
Las Vegas, Nevada - My good friend Micah Sifry framed this historic day perfectly right about noontime. “The hands that picked the cotton are the hands that are picking the next President of the United States.”
Barack Obama’s election tonight is laden with so much significance it seems an impossible task to even attempt any systematic [...]
Off the Bus: Pollsters Underestimate Southern Swing States
Insider Advantage pollster Matt Towery suggests that, in analyzing likely voting trends, not enough focus has been placed on “the new (southern) swing states.” As a longtime professional pollster, Towery thinks voting results in southern states with large African-American populations and increasing numbers of young first-time registered voters could amount to a sea change in [...]
Off the Bus: Marc Cooper on McCain’s Own 60s Radical
The McCain campaign shows no shame in engaging in a tired guilt-by-association tactic as Sarah Palin accuses Obama of “palling around with terrorists.” This desperate calumny derives from Obama once serving on the same non-profit board as former 60’s radical Bill Ayers, one of the founders of the Weather Underground.
But what about McCain’s [...]
Off the Bus: Eric Morse Dishes Advice to Obama for Tonight
With one presidential and one vice presidential debate behind us, a pattern is emerging: each time, the Democratic candidate has come to the table armed with facts and policy proposals, while the Republican catered to pundits and the public with an amalgam of attitude and atmospherics, colloquialisms and avoidance-by-way-of-personal-anecdote.
And in tomorrow’s town hall meeting in [...]