An Indiana County Clerk sent letters to employees who voted for Obama in the primary, calling him a "black Adolf Hitler."

http://ipopa.blogspot.com/2008/10/calling-obama-hitler-wasnt-good-enough.html

http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20081024/NEWS0203/810240497/

* A new Gallup poll shows Obama with strong support from Jewish voters. "The current proportion of U.S. Jews backing Obama is identical to the level of support the Democratic ticket of John Kerry and John Edwards received in the 2004 presidential election (74%)."

I know this is a good electoral sign, but I hate the fact that the only way you can get a good portion of the Jewish vote in this country is by pledging undying support to Israel, regardless of what it does to the Palestinians and regardless of how much money it costs the U.S. to fund this.

According to a recent book by a former CIA officer Bruce Riedel, The Search for Al Qaeda: Its Leadership, Ideology, and Future, Israel is one of the three main issues with Islamists, etc.

Michelle Obama is just giving a very heartwarming speech in the cold and rain in Ohio. Makes me wonder why they haven't used her more. She is so relaxed and unpretentious, a natural speaker really. She made a great joke with someone who shouted out "We love you". ('I love you all too, and you know, I paid that guy, I take him along with me').

I think of Cindy McCain, in contrast who seems so stiff, so well--a bit like John McCain--angry almost--and her connection with John seems so, um, strained. Whereas one gets the true sense Michelle and Barack genuinely love and respect one another.
This shouldn't be underestimated. It all carries over, in my view.

As humorous side note, the star.com's election ephemera had this to say

"Maybe there's a Florida dialect we don't know about, or maybe the John McCain campaign is just plumbing the depths in its search for support. The campaign sent out its media itinerary for yesterday's bus tour through the Sunshine State and three times it referred to its "Joe the Plummer" tour.

Here's hoping the campaign wasn't sending a subliminal message that its favourite profession is better at unclogging drains than spelling.

No reaction from John the Politishun."

Keep it classy John

I didn't know that Jews voted so disproportionately Democrat (3 to 1, more than Hispanics). If all you ever read was National Review and The Weekly Standard, you might think it was the opposite.

When it comes to re-election, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) is in deep trouble in her district, and so is Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) in his. Both have said very dumb things recently

Bachmann deserves to be consigned to the dust bin of history. But I will be sorry to see Murtha go. But a calling a section of the country 'racist' (even if true), is just not that smart. Given the full quote I understood what he was trying to say. It's an older white district, many people are uncomfortable with/do not like the idea of voting for a black man. But his choice of lauquage ... insulting your own constituents is just not that bright.

I wonder what sword they hung over Charlie Crist's head to get him to cut the radio ad. If you listen to it - you don't really "feel the love" for McCain. Crist sounds flat and unenthusiastic.

The best response to McCain's robocall is not to send a matching robocall. No one I know listens to them and everyone hates them. It is a bad campaign device.

"I stand athwart the rush of conservative ship-jumpers of every stripe -- neo (Ken Adelman), moderate (Colin Powell), genetic/ironic (Christopher Buckley) and socialist/atheist (Christopher Hitchens) -- yelling "Stop!" I shall have no part of this motley crew. I will go down with the McCain ship. I'd rather lose an election than lose my bearings."

Charles "No I'm not insane" Krauthammer in the WaPo today. What an idiot. It's way past time that out-and-out liars like him and Kristol are shunned in the public sphere.

Look at that result in Montana. I have been saying for a month that Montana would be competetive. North Dakota too. Keep working hard folks. This is not the time to relax.

Montana is not that suprising, given that it has two Democratic senators, a Democratic governor, and that Democrats narrowly control both the state Senate and state Assembly.

Georgia is like Missouri in that it is an urban vs. rural contest. Obama will have a large advantage in Atlanta (like in St. Louis & Kansas City), but in the past that has not been enough to offset the Republican dominance of the suburbs and rural areas.

The best response to McCain's robocall is not to send a matching robocall. No one I know listens to them and everyone hates them. It is a bad campaign device.Posted by: jen f

I agree. I hate being solicited by phone for anything. I hang-up immediately when it is an automated call.

* When it comes to re-election, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) is in deep trouble in her district, and so is Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) in his. Both have said very dumb things recently.

Murtha's something of a boob anyway, and really fond of pork. His electability in his constituency is the mostly the same as McCain's in his - a vet in redneck country.

Good riddance to Murtha, I say. He's a corrupt ole pol.

jen f:The best response to McCain's robocall is not to send a matching robocall. No one I know listens to them and everyone hates them. It is a bad campaign device.

1. It wasn't a "matching" call. Its content directly addresses McCain's smearing tactics.
2. Some people do listen to robocalls. As has been pointed out here recently, when you're hit in one medium, you respond in the same medium, not in a wider-reaching one (radio, TV) that then exposes a whole new audience to the initial attack.
3. None of your ongoing somber admonishments about Obama's supposed campaign missteps has been borne out by reality. Not one. Simply put, you know nothing about running campaigns and your ongoing anger about Clinton's loss is palpable.

has anyone asked McCain what was the extent of his relationship with Pinochet, a dictator responsible for the deaths of thousands, and why we did not know of this before.

1. It wasn't a "matching" call. Posted by: shortstop

Regardless, an automated call is an automated call. They are annoying, particularly if you are living in "battle ground states" where people have been getting up to a half-dozen a day. According to an interview on NPR last night, they aren't even 50% effective, so what's the point? They amount to anonymous harassment.

shortstop,

You are so full of it. Having spent the last three nights calling people in person in support of Obama, I think I have left the nomination process far behind. You apparently are still stuck in some addled anti-Clinton obsession.

I hate robocalls. They seems cowardly to me. At least when I personally call someone who curses me out, I can very calmly ask them what part of their lives has improved in the past four years.