http://www.redstate.com/rmj Thu, 06 Nov 2008 13:56:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This site is a mess. It is laid out poorly and functions like a Model T in sub-zero weather. All the error messages are inexcusable. The "editing" is hit or miss and seems to be more a function of who is awake and feels like doodling with the site than ... http://www.redstate.com/rmj/2008/11/06/redstate-needs-to-change/ I have been exchanging a few emails the past several days with a very liberal Democratic friend of mine who lives in Alexandria Virginia just outside DC. He is totally for Obama but a comment he made in an email today really got my attention: I haven't seen a ... http://www.redstate.com/rmj/2008/11/02/an-interesting-little-nugget-from-virginia/ No I mean their actual ages. Of course it matters who is ELECTED. I have noticed that many news stories go out of their way to give the candidate ages. For instance this AP story. Ages normally are included either when the individuals are unknown or when there is a specific reason for ... http://www.redstate.com/rmj/2008/10/26/age-of-obama-age-of-mccain/ This election is not over. John McCain can still win. The polls are grim but they are in a tightening phase once again. For the past several weeks there have been odd swings where Obama goes way out in front and then slips back. We are currently witnessing another slip back. I’ve ... http://www.redstate.com/rmj/2008/10/13/quitters-never-win/ I haven't seen any comments related to Obama's desire that the FDIC limit be raised from the current $100,000 to $250,000 via the "recovery" bill. This seems a tad odd and out of line with his professed love for the middle class and poor down trodden folk in general. After all how ... http://www.redstate.com/rmj/2008/10/03/why-did-obama-insist-on-increasing-the-fdic-l/ Ace of Spades today linked to this piece by William Saletan in Slate. From September 14, 2000 it pronounced GWB "toast" because of his poor standing in the polls. Saletan's concluding paragraph: A candidate who puts pride before prudence, refuses to learn from his mistakes, and is capable of living ... http://www.redstate.com/rmj/2008/10/02/flashback-to-2000-bush-is-toast/ The polling picture just now is rather grim for Republicans. They almost unanimously show Obama with a 4 to 9 point lead. This is not good. It also is not the end of the world. Everyone wants to be up in the polls. No matter how much we disparage them when ... http://www.redstate.com/rmj/2008/10/02/why-its-not-over-why-conservatives-should-n/ The death of Paul Newman saddens me. Mr. Newman was a classy guy, a great actor, a competent race car driver, and several cuts above the average Hollywood leading man. Mr. Newman was a political liberal but not of the mindless Woody Harrleson variety or the nasty and angry Ed Asner ... http://www.redstate.com/rmj/2008/09/27/paul-newman-rip/ So here are the three tracking polls I have been following. As of September 25: Gallup Tracking - Tie , 46 46 Rasmussen Tracking - Obama +3 , 49 46 Battleground Tracking - McCain +1 , 48 47 Everyone buckle your chin straps and hang on. ... http://www.redstate.com/rmj/2008/09/25/well-wellgallup-shows-a-tie-again/ Jay Cost on his old Horse Race Blog did an outstanding job of breaking down the various polls in 2004. He was invaluable in figuring out which ones were solid and which ones were fluff. Is anyone doing that on a daily or weekly basis in 2008? The constant avalanche of polls ... http://www.redstate.com/rmj/2008/09/24/who-is-the-jay-cost-of-2008/ After closely watching the polls over the past three weeks my sense is that they are weird this cycle. I am mildly suspicious about the national polls. They seem to be going up and down in a semi-choreographed way. This makes we wonder if in fact they are all tinkering with ... http://www.redstate.com/rmj/2008/09/23/fwiw-polls-moving-back-toward-mccain/ After closely watching the polls over the past three weeks my sense is that they are weird this cycle. I am mildly suspicious about the national polls. They seem to be going up and down in a semi-choreographed way. This makes we wonder if in fact they are all tinkering with ... http://www.redstate.com/rmj/2008/09/23/fwiw-major-polls-moving-back-toward-mccain/ As we behold the disgusting attacks on John McCain and Sarah Palin it would be well to recall that it was 56 years ago this week that another Republican ticket was fighting against the same type of smear tactics. Charges that were first splashed across the pages of the New York ... http://www.redstate.com/rmj/2008/09/19/deja-vu-all-over-again/ Today was the 221st anniversary of the signing of the United States Constitution and in Orange County Virginia, Montpelier, the home of the Father of The Constitution, James Madison, re-opened after a multi-million dollar renovation. Along with various elected officials, we were honored by the presence of Chief Justice John Roberts ... http://www.redstate.com/rmj/2008/09/17/chief-justice-roberts-and-justice-alito/ RCP has put up five very telling FOX News/Rasmussen polls this evening: Pennsylvania Obama 47, McCain 47 Tie Ohio McCain 48, Obama 45 McCain +3 Florida McCain 49, Obama 44 McCain +5 Virginia McCain 48, Obama 48 Tie Colorado Obama 46, ... http://www.redstate.com/rmj/2008/09/15/good-batch-of-polls/ Two new polls show Barack Obama ahead in New York by 5 points and in Virginia by 4 points. If you believe that I have some oceanfront property in Iowa to sell you. New York went for John Kerry by 19 points while Virginia went for George W. Bush by 8 points. ... http://www.redstate.com/rmj/2008/09/15/beware-the-polls/ http://www.redstate.com/rmj/2008/09/14/iraq-war-veteran-speaks-to-mr-obama/ Over the past 60 years of presidential elections "experience" has proven a tenuous foothold for those trying to discredit an opponent. For instance Richard Nixon was only 39 years of age when Ike put him on the ticket in 1952. The Democrats, who already hated Nixon because of his take down ... http://www.redstate.com/rmj/2008/09/14/obama-biden-incompetant/ In a piece via UPI, Martin Sieff explores some of the more egregious examples of the media bias this year. But for me he kind of ruined the whole effort with this paragraph: In the long sweep of U.S. political history, the worst dirt that has been thrown at either ... http://www.redstate.com/rmj/2008/09/13/is-accuracy-an-option-now/ When John McCain chose Sarah Palin he pulled off perhaps the most brilliant political masterstroke in living memory. Whether he realized all the nuances of his act or not, will likely be the subject of a few books over next 5 or 10 years. I believe that he also had the good ... http://www.redstate.com/rmj/2008/09/13/the-palin-effect/