7:49 p.m.

I added more pix, and description, which I embedded in the 7:35 entry, for better flow. 

7:35 p.m.

Pix!

Here's the first one. This is the gist of how our voter-lists-on-the-walls worked. These are the master rolls, and each packet gets updated according to this:

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Pollster was nice enough to do a chart on the trendline of polls on Prop 8:

http://www.pollster.com/polls/ca/08-ca-prop8.php?xml=http://www.pollster.com/flashcharts/content/xml/08CAProp8.xml&choices=No,Yes&phone=&ivr=&internet=&mail=&smoothing=&from_date=&to_d… Read full post »

12% of Colorado has already voted!

Our Secretary of State announced this morning that it has already received 340,000 mail-in ballots, and 42,000 have cast ballots at early-voting centers this week. That's out of 3.2 million registered, which is 11.94%.

If you assume a very high turnout of 70%, then 17… Read full post »

In zero words, why McCain is losing:

Hard to believe this is not photoshopped. John McCain actually did this. The description from Yahoo, where it's curently the #1 most emailed photo in the world:

US Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain (R-AZ) reacts to almost heading the wr… Read full post »

I have fallen for two shows this year. The thirteen episodes of True Blood have a shot at being the best film of the year. The Mentalist is pretty damn good, too.

For starters, there's Simon Baker. And his character. In spite of how together he is, I love… Read full post »

I hurtled out of bed today and ran to my computer to see if this was the day. Yes!

(Technicaly, I hobbled down the hall quickly, as fast as I could drag the cast.)

October 7, 2008, this was the day it happened.

In the daily electoral tracking maps… Read full post »

gallup tracking has obama up by eight: pretty stable, and inching up:

http://www.gallup.com/poll/110932/Gallup-Daily-Obama-Maintains-Significant-Margin.aspx

Obama has now held a statistically significant lead over McCain for the last eight days, one shy of his campaign-best streak of nine days with… Read full post »

good strategy on florida jewish vote under the radar that i just became aware of.

i a friend of mine is a wealthy, successful jewish businessman, and son of a rabbi. the obama team wants him to got to florida once a week to speak briefly at jewish temples and community centers… Read full post »

Great new Obama ad set to run in Michigan:

This is nearly a perfect ad, targeted to a particular, crucial state.

In one quick swoop, it shows that McCain

1. is a liar (using footage of him proudly claiming he's always bought American cars, his whole life).
2. a… Read full post »

Here it is. The ad we've been waiting for--two minutes long, with all the meat:

I asked for a one-two punch, and this is the second punch.

Obama will win if he does two things:

1. Shows McCain is out of touch and clueless on the economy.

2.Demonstrates… Read full post »

Update: Now this is service! Twelve hours later, the Obama campaign has produced and posted the ad I requested, beat for beat! It's on youtube, with a 5-star rating.

I'm sure they didn't see my post. It was just screaming out to be made. I hope they run the shit… Read full post »

Has anyone culled this stat yet?

I predict we will hear it a million times, and rightly so:

"Two years ago, Sarah Palin was the mayor of a town with x stoplights."

I was shocked to hear just how small Wasilla is. Wiki says: "As of the 2000 census,… Read full post »

Bryan Williams just played an extended interview with Michelle Obama.

Man, she's something.

From about the second time I saw her last year, I liked her. Now, I have completely fallen for her. She is so articulate, but also so authentic and endearing.

He asked her who wrote her speech,… Read full post »

That might have been the best speech ever delivered by a Clinton. Man. Freaking incredible. I expected her to do a really good job. I didn't think she had that in her. I thought she was an ultra-smart person who was never going to excel at oratory. Where the hell did… Read full post »

I spent the last couple hours milling about LoDo (Lower Downtown) on bike and occasionally on foot, and the one common thread I picked up was the surprise by visitors on how freaking hot Denver is. Sunny and 86 at the moment, 23% humidity. It doesn't sound bad, but with everyone… Read full post »

Michelle Obama exceeded my wildest expectations.

What a sincere, moving and likable speech, that made both her and Barack seem both lofty and real--normal, everyday people, with staggering hope and determination. They did the impossible because they believed they could.

That was one of the best… Read full post »

How come no one in the media--even late-night comedians--are busting NBC for lying to half the country about showing the major Olympic events live?

From what I have gathered, living in Denver, it appears NBC  is creating a single 4-hour prime time show each night, which they then run t… Read full post »

First the bad news:

I was excited that Obama was planning to advertise during the Olympics, but appalled by what I saw.

They look, sound and feel like those annoying corporate ads from The Archer Daniels Midland Company, or GE's "We bring good things to life" crap. I didn't even guess… Read full post »

Wow. I just shuddered at something that demonstrates the dearth of Americans' knowledge of history.

On The Early Show (don't ask), CBS's veteran European correspondent Mark Phillips did a piece on Obama's speech today. Phillips said it will be at "The Victory Column, built after a war in the mid 1800… Read full post »

Watching the flap over Wes Clark's benign statement got me thinking. Lost in the discussion of this non-issue so far is the other half: how McCain is playing it.

Poorly, I think. He does not wear "victim" well.

I watched him yesterday, and he fell somewhere between sad-puppy… Read full post »

I was watching Face The Nation Sunday, and gaping at Bob Schieffer before Wes Clark opened his mouth. The story here should be Schieffer. He made some really illogical statements equating POW with experienc to be president, and did so in an aggressive, condescending (bitchy) way.

Wes Clark was… Read full post »

it was an amazing night. i hope that everyone, no matter how they feel about Dems or barack can take great joy in the amazing event that happened tonight: a great big gaping hole was smashed through the color barrier.

 you may or may not wish to see… Read full post »

The white house said it's "puzzled" by Scott McClellan's eviceration.  Of course they were: they're so used to lying as a matter of course, they can't get their heads around the idea of one of their guys telling the truth.

 It is kind of astonishing that Scott lied to… Read full post »