There should be a support group for all those beleaguered progressives who over the years anxiously awaited elections in the futile hope that the polls showing their candidate behind would turn out to be wrong — but who this year are fretting just as much that the polls showing their candidate ahead are wrong.
[Ed. Note: I self-diagnosed the disease.]
Which supposedly anti-semitic alleged pal of Obama’s is McCain flack Michael Goldfarb referring to? Come on, Michael. Can’t you just say it? Whisper it? Give us the first letter?
More at Election Central.
There’s definitely been some tightening over the last few days in the tracking polls. As you know, each day we come out with the TPM Track Composite, a computed average of 6 of the 8 available tracking polls. Here’s the graph going back to October 5th, including today (click through for a larger map)…
(ed.note: You may be asking the obvious question: why do you only use six of the eight. We do not include the TIPP-IBD because it’s on a five days cycle, rather than three like the rest of the polls. And the sample size is also much smaller than the rest. That creates both an apples and oranges comparison problem, matching them with the other polls, as well as a question of reliability. We also do not include the GWU/Battleground poll because unlike the other trackers, it only comes out on weekdays.)
A new mailer in Pennsylvania shows the McCain campaign still thinks it’s basically running in the Democratic primary.
The McCain campaign has been throwing around so much mud and smears in recent weeks that it’s easy to miss just how ugly and shameful their character assassination of Rashid Khalidi is. This is an entirely respectable, highly respected scholar. To go further into making a case for him would only be to enable and indulge McCain’s sordid appeal to racism. For McCain, personally, to compare Khalidi to a neo-nazi, it’s just an offense McCain should never be forgiven for. It’s right down in the gutter with Joe McCarthy and the worst of the worst. Khalidi is in this new McCain set piece for one reason — as a generic Arab, to spur the idea that Obama is foreign, friendly with terrorists and possibly Muslim.
Here’s a video John Judis did this afternoon at The New Republic on McCain’s latest low …
A final swing by Saturday Night Live for John McCain. That and the day’s other political news in the TPM Election Central Morning Roundup.
Another GOP voter suppression effort bites the dust when subjected to court scrutiny — this time in Pennsylvania.
In case you missed it, here’s TPMmuckraker’s rundown of the GOP’s mostly failed efforts across the country thus far.
Obama going on TV for the first time in Arizona — and back on the air in Georgia and North Dakota.