Comparing Manhattan’s evacuation zones to the contours of the original island — for history and map buffs. Worth a look.
The final week of the campaign is starting to remind me of the last week in 2008 when the McCain/Palin campaign went into full-out ‘Obama-loves-terrorists’ mode and ended with unknown McCain campaign volunteer Ashley Todd scratching a backwards B on her cheek to simulate the feral and pro-Obama black gang-bangers who would run America under the new Obama regime. Today the Romney campaign, which days ago seemed to have Florida close to wrapped, went on the air with a new ad claiming that Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro (actually Fidel Catro’s niece apparently) are “endorsing” President Obama.
Times public editor Margaret Sullivan has a post up taking Nate Silver to task for daring Joe Scarborough to a bet over who would win the election. Basically, she says making a bet like this diminishes the Times and he shouldn’t have done it. That may be so. I don’t know and don’t really care. Read More
From TPM Reader JC …
A half-dozen GOP ads during Jeopardy tonight, here in Harrisburg, PA. Crossroads, Americans for Prosperity, new warm n’ fuzzy Romney ad, not sure about the others, but it was like getting beat down to the ground and, just as you’re getting up, boom, another punch. They were all good ads and, one after another, kind of overwhelming. They must think they can move the needle in PA. Can they? Disturbing thought for me.
TPM Reader JB thinks arc of the moral universe may be bending away from douchedom, and thus all the ruckus …
I have been thinking about the attacks on Nate Silver since I heard about them and think your rejoinder to Margaret Sullivan gets part, but not all of the story. The real story is that we are watching the twilight of the current horse-race elites. As data supplants visceral election appreciation, two groups stand to lose a lot: Horse race pundits and the Republicans who can sway them.
I’m pretty jaded about funny campaign vids. But this genuinely made me laugh out loud. After the jump … Read More
A new poll out today and the Polltracker average show Obama pulling ahead substantially in New Hampshire.
Republicans will look back on the Indiana race as the single biggest missed opportunity in the Senate this cycle, if today’s polling bears out.
The way the Bureau of Labor Statistics didn’t count nearly 100,000 new jobs back in August shows how deeply involved the White House was in monkeying with the numbers.
Benjy Sarlin was at the Romney rally in Richmond yesterday and got a chance to talk to attendees about Mitt, Obama, and where they see the race headed. Some delightful on the ground reporting.