Nobody Knows Nothing

By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  October 22nd at 11:59 AM  | 

If you go here, here, here, here, here, and here, you can pretty much cover the landscape of arguments for why the polls simply can’t be trusted this year.

Spinning Anger

By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  October 15th at 05:47 PM  | 

While we are on the subject of things that get written for reasons other than the relationship they bear to the truth, those of us who remember the successful effort to demonize Republican success in 1994-95 as “a temper tantrum,” “angry white men,” etc. (all the way to Bill Clinton essentially blaming the Oklahoma City bombing on Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh) see the same | Read More »

Narrowing The Field

By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  September 11th at 06:49 PM  | 

With 54 days until the election and four debates still to go, a lot can happen; the presidential race could still end up getting badly away from either McCain or Obama. But now that we have the benefit of polling done entirely after the two VPs were picked and the two conventions held, it’s possible to get a sense of what the playing field really | Read More »

Hard-Hitting New McCain Ad Highlights Obama’s Tax Hikes, Celebrity

By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  August 8th at 04:46 PM  | 

I really like the new McCain ad (see here for Jonathan Martin’s take and Obama’s response): The McCain ad people have really have found their voice in turning out-of-control Obamania against Obama, who will be picking his teeth out of his tonsils from this one. It’s a great ad in three ways.