You mean "Utah" by 32, not Nevada.

Whatsup with the Nevada number? Is that an outlier or does everyone in Nevada really, really like Sarah Palin's glasses?

Rasmussen shows McCain leading Obama in Nevada by 32, 64% to 32%.

Nearly gave me a heart attack there, Steve. (It's supposed to be "Utah".)

Sarah repeated BtN again. The lying as a strategy makes no sense.

I guess they decided to go full National Socialist this year!

Palin also gave a speech on the economy in Colorado. I only heard a couple of lines, but two things seemed obvious. As a mother and 'head of family' she did get the seriousness of the problem, and that the problem was in Washington, and the fact that 'the folks took their eye off the ball.'

What she didn't get was that she was, at least in the couple of lines I heard, arguing against the whole McCain-Gramm-Reagan deregulation philosophy.

Not surprisingly, the Obama campaign jumped on McCain for praising the strength of the "fundamentals of the economy."

McCain is running for Herbert Hoover's 2nd term.

Today Nevada, tomorrow Idaho.

I don't get it, is McCain saying that the current meltdown is the fault of the government? Could the government have prevented this?

I still think he is pushing the "new sheriff in town" meme, where he rides in and cleans up the mess. Only he has clean hands, everyone else is to blame. My worry is that he will continue to blame everyone but himself if he is elected.

"If they had just listened to me...if they had just done what I said to do."

This is dangerous because it allows McCain to continue bashing everyone forever.

Siena College says Obama down to just 46-41 in NY.

I see JohnnyMac is stealing the "Enough" line now.

One thing everybody seems to have missed (though it might have made the WaPo) was that, at the same time as the Palin "Welcome Home" rally, there was an "Alaska Women Reject Palin" rally, which (according to Mudflats, the Alaska blog) outdrew the pro-Palin rally about 3-2, and was "the largest political rally in the state's history."

Pictures and coverage, including video, at
http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/09/14/alaska-women-reject-palin-rally-is-huge/

McCain adviser Donald Luskin explains that the bad economic news is all in our minds. In a Sunday WaPo op ed piece titled Quit Doling Out That Bad-Economy Line Luskin blames Obama for talking down the economy and then goes on to explain how this really isn't anything like the Great Depression.
Not yet it isn't. It will be if McCain gets elected and takes advice from the likes of Luskin and Gramm.

Well, since Nevada is where all those sinful Mormons go to blow their money, it was only a matter of time until Nevada simply applied eminent domain---and annexed Utah.

And that really big tabernacle-thingie in Salt Lake City will make an absolutely bodacious* casino!

*No---I cannot believe I used the word "bodacious," either---but it really pisses off the proselytizing wenches (additional wives, perhaps?) who keep visiting the home of my LDS neighbor across the street....

The Bush administration has been marked by an unmitigated and unprecedented series of disasters, from 9-11 to Wall Street's crash and burn, yet you'd never know it from the polls.

As for the comment at 12:32 p.m., I came up with the Herbert Hoover analogy this morning, too. Only I think John McCain is running for his first term. Apparently, as with Calvin Coolidge, two terms weren't enough for the American people. They needed a third to wake up, and it appears they need four more horrific years before they come to their senses.

John McCain ought to be polling 29% - 28% from those hopeless, mindless Bush supporters, and the richest 1% who don't care about anyone else. It just doesn't make sense that he's doing so well. How can the American people be this clueless?

Hark,

I can think of a couple of good reasons why McCain is doing so well in polls.

1) Americans have been brainwashed to think that "liberal" means evil. And Obama is the most liberal senator, don't ya know.

2) The Dems are going to raise your taxes...McCain said so. Another knee-jerk, brainwash job.

3) Obama's a black guy!?!

4) 9/11 9/11 9/11, terrorists, terrorists, terrorists

5) Christians for Christian Candidates!

6) Real Americans always vote for the guy whose crowd of onlookers chants USA the loudest.

I could go on...but I'm starting to depress myself.

When I first heard Palin's voice, I thought she'd be worth a couple of points at least in Minnesota. She sounds so much like the Minnesota accent. I know that shouldn't matter, but I bet it does.

McCain has plans for your Social Security. He wants to invest it with Merrill Lynch or with Lehman Brothers, but he can't seem to find them right now. If you run into those guys, will you have them get in touch with him?

New VA poll survey USA Obama 50 Mccain 46 this is really great news if true and maybe shows that in the last few days and give the calamity on wall st the tide is turning of course Mccain's dumb as comment was a nice gift also