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Seventy-Six Nobel Laureates are giving their endorsement to Barack Obama. In an Open Letter to the American People (PDF file), the Nobel winners are saying:
This year’s presidential election is among the most significant in our nation’s history. The country urgently needs a visionary leader who can ensure the future of our traditional strengths [...]

So I made the mistake of wearing an Obama t-shirt to work today. I’ve gotten no work done and instead have spent my day engaged in a series of political discussions - of varying complexity and length - with an array of coworkers of varying degrees of hardcore republicanism.
What I discovered in these discussions [...]

First of all, The Bradly effect is bullshit.
Remember how powerful was the anti-elitist meme about Bush being a guy you would wanna have a beer with?
The appeal to this voter was really an appeal to rednecks who liked the idea of a president that wasn’t no better than they were (and they [...]

Just when you thought it was all a a bad dream, along comes a dude like David Storck (and his faithful GOP volunteers) to pinch you and confirm you are, indeed, awake.

Mr. Storck, head of the Hillsborough County GOP, passed along an e-mail from a GOP volunteer who expressed concern as follows:
[I see] car loads [...]

Polls would indicate Barack Obama has a comfortable lead in enough states that McCain has almost no chance of getting the 270 electoral votes needed to win the election. But it’s not an impossibility. The Obama campaign is taking no chances. In addition to the states already under intense focus, they have [...]

Seriously? Someone in my office came to work in costume today - in blackface.
What the fuck is he thinking?

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who heads the Green Zone government, won’t call the draft treaty between the U.S. and Iraq a security agreement. For him, it’s all about the withdrawal.

Guarding the Green Zone in Baghdad.
Government television quoted the prime minister as describing the agreement as a framework for the pullout [...]

No seriously. Waiting for Christmas has nothing on waiting for election day 2008.
MSNBC reported this a.m. that 188 million people are registered to vote. Given that turnout in US elections is consistently among the lowest in the industrialized world, this is a good sign. Early voting has seen HUGE turnout. 538 [...]

h/t Bradblog
In case there is any doubt that the 2000 and 2004 elections were stolen…
After many months and many requests and many challenges from both critics and Mainstream Media types, The St. Petersburg Times reports — and The BRAD BLOG can confirm — that Clint Curtis took a polygraph test on March 3rd, 2005…and passed!
The [...]

‘There are strange things done in the midnight sun . . .’
The New York Times reports that Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens returned home to a hero’s welcome. Hundreds of supporters cheered while Stevens vowed to appeal his felony convictions and asked voters to re-elect him.
Top Republicans including John McCain and Sarah Palin have called [...]

When I was a child, election night was a strange mystery. My parents disappeared soon after dinner and didn’t return until they done the arcane process of voting. It simply happened.
The first election of which I have any memories was 1976. I thought Jimmy Carter’s smile was too broad and [...]

Continuing the theme of several of my co-authors here, enjoy Obama’s newest TV ad:

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