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McCain's Blackberry, $20 — Link: http://www.myfoxdc.com/myfox/pages/Ne... The McCain-Palin team had a little yard sale last week and sold off a bunch of campaign Blackberries for $20 a piece. As a bonus, it turns out they still had months of campaign email messages on them. Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment »... [Tags: blackberries, blackberry, bonus, image link, mccain]

NYT runs William Ayers' op-ed — 'I never killed or injured anyone,' insists McCain's campaign boogyman.... [Tags: mccain, nyt, william ayers]

Stephen Hayes Offers Confusing Advice For Sarah Palin — Try to decode this logic from The Weekly Standard writer Stephen Hayes: BORGER: You just can't say no, because that won't go over with the American people. HAYES: I'm not sure, I think there's a strong part of the country -- more than 50% in a lot of polls -- that are just opposing right now, that are very skeptical of these bailouts, and I think that if you have somebody like a Sarah Palin or another Republican who can articulate that opposition by presenting alternatives... BORGER: But what are the alternatives? That's the point. You have to have 'em.... [Tags: bailout, giveaways, logic, mccain, missing something]

Laurence Leamer: The Wages of Wealth — For the first time since the Thirties, the moment of truth is arriving for the wealthy in America. During the New Deal, as FDR saved the capitalistic system that had brought the economic elite such bounty, many of the ultra rich berated the president as a traitor to his class. They sat in their clubs and sneered at the reformers and were largely bystanders to the great American drama of their time. I've been living in Palm Beach for the past decade and a half gathering information for my forthcoming book, Madness Under the Royal Palms, and I say with... [Tags: american drama, black tar, bystanders, capitalistic system, cocktail party]

Peter Dreier: Why Liberals Need Labor: The Upcoming Battle over Labor Law Reform — By Peter Dreier and Kelly Candaele Three weeks before the November election, the New York Times Magazine ran a cover story that asked, "Will Gun-Toting, Churchgoing White Guys Pull the Lever for Obama?" When the polls closed, the question was answered: Nationwide, white men, white women, working-class whites, white gun owners, and white weekly churchgoers supported McCain by wide margins. But a significant number of whites in each category broke ranks and voted for Obama -- enough to help him win key battleground states and the presidency. Exit polls conducted by Guy Molyneux, a survey expert with Peter D. Hart... [Tags: afl cio, battleground states, class whites, college graduates, exit polls]

Midday open thread — Not a lot of moderates left in the GOP. When did Canadian politics suddenly get so interesting? And how long before the Bloc Quebecois do their usual "I'm taking my ball home" schtick and it all unravels? I was obsessed with Canadian politics back in the 90s. But that was during the heydey of the separatist movement in Quebec. Once that calmed down, I lost interest. I may have to start paying attention again. MN-Sen: The Minnesota recount has been impossible to follow, since challenges have obscured any progress in the recount. But this is certainly good news: Ramsey... [Tags: absentee ballots, canadian politics, canvassing board, clerical errors, county officials]

India demands 'strong action' from Pakistan — New details emerge about attackers; McCain calls on Pakistan to cooperate.... [Tags: attackers, india, mccain, new details, pakistan]

New details about Mumbai terrorists — India wants 'strong action' from Pakistan; McCain urges cooperation.... [Tags: cooperation, india, mccain, new details, pakistan]

Palin Recycles Old Stump Speech In Georgia, But Replaces "McCain" With "Chambliss" — Today, Gov. Sarah Palin traveled to Georgia to campaign for Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R), who faces a tough runoff election tomorrow against Democratic challenger Jim Martin. In the first of four stops today, in Augusta, Palin told the crowd, "The eyes of the nation are on you," adding, "The stakes are so high" and that "America is counting on you."... [Tags: crowd, democratic challenger, election tomorrow, mccain, quot]

Julie Menin: Women And The 2008 Election: A New Majority — Much was made before the 2008 Presidential election of the potential impact of the African American or youth vote on the election. Pundits claimed that both voting blocks would "carry" the election for Barack Obama. But what about women voters? The truth is that they came out in full force for Obama. Women strongly preferred Obama to McCain 56-43% whereas men split their vote 49% for Obama and 48% for McCain. Women have voted in larger numbers than men since 1980. In the 2004 Presidential race, nine million more women than men voted and when final results are tallied it... [Tags: 19th amendment, barack obama, campaign forum, election cycle, full force]

Steve Schmidt: Jindal Is GOP's Destiny — Ramesh Ponnuru at the National Review notes that a number of Republican heavyweights are hyping Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal as the party's future, as a weekend Washington Post article shows: No less an aspiring kingmaker than Steve Schmidt, the chief strategist of McCain's failed presidential bid, sees Jindal as the Republican Party's destiny. "The question is not whether he'll be president, but when he'll be president, because he will be elected someday." The anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist believes, too, that Jindal is a certainty to occupy the White House, and conservative talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh has described him as "the... [Tags: bobby jindal, chief strategist, crusader, destiny, gop]

Barack The Hawk — Yglesias worries:What is unclear at this point is whether Clinton joining the Obama team means that Clinton has gained faith in Obama’s approach, or that Obama has lost faith in his own. The very fact of Obama’s election would seem to tilt things in his direction: there was a consistent trajectory to their disagreements, and Obama was on the right side – a judgment vindicated by his victories over both Clinton and McCain. It’s not merely that he won, but that winning demonstrates his supposedly “risky” positions were not so risky after all.In the end, I'd say, there was never... [Tags: american strength, bush, disagreements, disciple, faith]

Polls and The Election – A Revisit — This is a good day to reflect and look back (there's a winter advisory here in CT), as we move into the holidays and look to January 20th and beyond (is Bush still here? Damn.) One of the hot topics of this election, and a perplexing one, was poll performance as a reflection of where the electorate's head was at. We know the polls did well, at least the final polls. From pollster.com's Mark Blumenthal: How did the polls do last week? Quite well. While we worried about the many challenges, the telephone survey again defied the odds and delivered... [Tags: accurate results, aggregate, algorithm, assumptions, election day]

Filmmakers Behind Fake McCain Adviser Discuss Tricking The Media (VIDEO) — Dan Mirvish and Eitan Gorlin appeared on CNN's Reliable Sources to discuss how they tricked the media by creating a fake McCain adviser named Martin Eisenstadt. The duo were able to fool such reputable news organizations as The New York Times, The New Republic, and, most famously, MSNBC, whose anchor David Schuster reported live on air that Martin Eisenstadt had been identified as the McCain adviser who leaked that Sarah Palin was unaware Africa is a continent. Schuster quickly retracted the report. (Fox News' Carl Cameron was the first to report on the Palin-Africa story, and he has said that... [Tags: adviser, africa, anchor, carl cameron, cnn]

Greg Mitchell: Study's Claim on the 'Myth' of Obama's Small Donor Base Is Itself a 'Myth' — The Campaign Finance Institute (CFI) study disclosing that Barack Obama actually raised most of his campaign money from "larger" not "smaller" donors has gained wide, approving, coverage in recent days, from USA Today to the Los Angeles Times and countless web sites, even making Huffington Post at least twice, including as a top link currently. Nearly everyone has headed their account with a headline referring to the "myth" of Obama riding a wave of small donations to victory. That study's author himself uses it. But the "myth" is actually in the spinning of the report, including by its author, Michael... [Tags: aggregate, author michael, barack obama, campaign finance institute, campaign money]

iPhone eCards = Awesome — What a phenomenal and simple idea: eCards for your iPhone-carrying friends. New service eCardlets, based in San Francisco, and founded by former Microsofties and Googlers, lets you create an eCard on the web, then send the recipient a text message containing a link to the card. You can try it with the Mashable card above, or a wide selection of other options. The cards are specially optimized for the iPhone, of course, allowing you to open the card by dragging your finger across the front. Simple. Effective. Go try it and tell us what you think. ---Related Articles at... [Tags: cards, chat tool, client chat, ecard, ecards]

Von Hoffmann Award Nominee II — "Who are these pro-McCain Democratic voters?  They overwhelmingly tend to be former Hillary supporters.  Perhaps the most well-known of these voters are the "PUMAs" - which stands for Party Unity My Ass.  These are Hillary supporters who are adamantly opposed to Obama.  Let's not forget that during the Democratic primaries - real elections, not polls - Hillary crushed Obama among white working-class and middle-class voters in such key states as Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.  If a meaningful number of these voters end up voting for McCain, as I predict  they will, then Obama's smooth road to the White... [Tags: american thinker, award nominee, brick wall, democratic primaries, democratic voters]

What Joel is thankful for — Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Saturday Night Live, The Daily Show, How I Met Your Mother, The Office, 30 Rock, Reality-Free, The Big Bang TheoryAs I think about the past year, in both my life and in the world of TV, there's plenty I have to be thankful for. The life stuff is obvious: health, family, my girlfriend, a roof over my head, food on my plate, and a job that I enjoy. But the TV stuff isn't quite as obvious. So, as the balloons float over midtown Manhattan and people get ready to gorge themselves, here are a... [Tags: big bang theory, colbert report, daily show, david letterman, election season]

Syria First — Building on my post below about the new Obama national security team, Aaron David Miller has a smart column in the Washington Post today about another area in which the Obama foreign policy is likely to differ from that of Bush--and also from what McCain was proposing. He believes that the first step toward a middle east peace is for the U.S. to support the negotiations between Israel and Syria, which the Bush Administration tried to thwart for the past two years in deference to the neoconservative radicals.  I'm not sure that Syria can be brought fully into the community... [Tags: aaron david miller, alawite, assassination of rafik hariri, bashar assad, bush administration]