Via Ben Smith, this new feature “organizes and prioritizes your contacts by key battleground states, making it easy to reach out and make an impact quickly.” Which reminds me of this, also via Mr. Smith: Barack Obama is Google, John McCain is AT&T. Via Slog.
Eli Sanders
Eli Sanders is The Stranger's associate editor. His book, "While the City Slept," was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He once did this and once won this, but he also once crashed his bike into a parked car while on his way to a staff meeting, never mind this, so… His website, which probably hasn't been updated in a while, is www.elisanders.net.
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McCain’s Crappy, Crappy Week
This week is a total disaster, politics-wise, for John McCain. Maybe he’ll blow everyone’s mind at the debate tonight and as a result his strange gambits over the last few days will be forgotten. But I doubt that. Let’s review, briefly. McCain began the week with his standing in the polls sinking, the economy imploding, […]
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What? Me Worry?
I am the last person in the world to begrudge people their election anxiety, but looking at some of the electoral college vote prediction sites that I frequent, I don’t see as much cause for Obama-related alarm. At least not today. Here’s the current Real Clear Politics map. It’s close, but Obama wins: FiveThirtyEight and […]
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Obama Responds; McCain Loses Letterman
In response to McCain’s request to delay this Friday’s debate, Obama nicely tells McCain to suck it. This gambit is not going well for McCain. Here’s Drudge’s description of tonight’s Letterman show: David Letterman tells audience that McCain called him today to tell him he had to rush back to DC to deal with the […]
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McCain Wants to Delay Friday’s Debate
McCain is apparently suspending his campaign, heading back to Washington D.C. to be available to hammer out a bailout plan, and calling on Obama to do the same. McCain’s statement, via the siren-flashing Drudge: America this week faces an historic crisis in our financial system. We must pass legislation to address this crisis. If we […]
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Perverse
The McCain campaign puts out an education attack ad that suggests Obama wants to sex up kindergarten students. (Check out the photo of Obama that hangs for several seconds at the end of the commercial. Hmm. Are they trying to tell us something?) Team Obama hits back with a statement: It is shameful and downright […]
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Among the (White) People
Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Endgame in Oregon
The sun is going down over the Jackson County Fairgrounds in southern Oregon, washing everything in that kind, soft light that you tend to see in uplifting campaign commercials. You might call it the best light possible. Beneath this light, a line of excited Hillary Clinton supporters stretches from a Secret Service screening area toward […]
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Mourning in America
Lynn Bradach’s Son Lost His Life in Iraq. Last Month She Joined Other Mothers of Dead Soldiers in Crawford, Texas to Ask President Bush Why.
Like the young man in the new Army recruiting commercial, Travis Bradach-Nall had issues with his father. His parents divorced just before he turned 13, and he barely saw his dad again after that. Instead he lived with his mother, Lynn Bradach, in the close quarters of her brown cottage-style home in Grant Park. Like […]