Here at TPM, we’re watching all the senate races really closely. But I’ll confess to a special personal interest in the Minnesota contest pitting Al Franken against Sen. Norm Coleman. I’m a longtime fan of Franken’s and I think I can call him a friend. Here are the polls from the race released in the last 48 hours …
PPP (D) (10/31):
Franken (D) 45%, Coleman (R) 40%, Barkley (IP) 14%
UMN (10/31):
Franken (D) 41%, Coleman (R) 37%, Barkley (IP) 17%
Mason-Dixon (10/30):
Coleman (R) 42%, Franken (D) 36%, Barkley (IP) 12%
Rasmussen (10/29):
Coleman (R) 43%, Franken (D) 39%, Barkley (IP) 14%
As John McCain just gets sleazier and sleazier, let’s review the hypocritical record one more time …
It’s so important I’m reprinting Jo-Ann Mort’s post on McCain vile campaign against Rashid Khalidi in full …
It has come to this–the red baiting and the nastiness of the McCain/Palin campaign, in desperation to get Jewish support, is now baiting and bad-mouthing a notable Palestinian-American historian, Rashid Khalidi, for his and his wife’s friendship with Obama. The Khalidis know Obama from their time in Hyde Park, when Rashid was a professor at the University of Chicago.
Now at Columbia University, he is someone who has always reached out to all sides in the debate about the future of Israel and Palestine. He has been outspoken in his arguments against Arafat’s ways of governing and terrorism and when he was at U of C, he was close to Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, one of the most important American Jewish figures of our time. For the Republicans to go after him is pure vile–they think that the Jewish vote is so stupid and racist that they will turn away from the Democrats solely on this type of slander. For someone like Daniel Pipes, quoted in today’s New York Times story, to call him ‘marginal,’ is a joke. It’s time to move the Center back to the Center–let’s hope that happens as of November 5–for the sake of America, the sake of Israel and the sake of Palestine.
McCain’s final gambit is racism pure and simple, a stain on our national honor.
Sen. Stevens to constituents: I actually haven’t been convicted.
Now Reagan Adminstration official Ken Duberstein endorses Obama.
Not a household name exactly; but another one of those eye-poppers.
A little odd to see Obama approvingly citing McCain adviser and neocon stalwart Robert Kagan in a new TV ad. The ad cites a Kagan column from last year, which tried to make the case, in a sometimes mocking and sarcastic way, that Obama’s foreign policy really wasn’t all that different from the neocons’. The ad is running in the Navy home port of Norfolk, VA, where defense spending is obviously a big issue.
Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) finally gets around to deploring the politicization of the Justice Department — but declares it’s the Democrats whom DOJ favors.
If DOJ won’t do the GOP’s bidding, then it must favor the Dems, right?
Why are right-wing freaks now the self-appointed defenders of Jews, defending us from the candidates the overwhelming proportion of us Jews plan to vote for?