Okay, I’m wondering what planet Democratic pollster Thomas Riehle lives on.
In the final three weeks of the campaign, longtime leading Democratic strategists such as Stan Greenberg and James Carville urge the party to maximize the once-in-a-generation opportunity the 2006 election offers Democrats by reaching out for every seat that is even conceivably contestable. Netroots newcomers, […]

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A “liberal” astroturf mailing is going out in an attempt to suppress the pro-Casey vote. Typical strategy, usual suspects, last gasp of desperation…

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Josh Marshall says Karl Rove is playing a head game to affect voter turnout.
Just ignore him (Rove, I mean). It drives him crazy.

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My guess is, Jesus would find this as funny as I did. After all, let’s not confuse Him with the people who claim to be acting in His name…

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It’s a good one, go read the whole thing. More from Jacob Hacker on “The Great Risk Shift”:
What’s distinctive about the dramatic increase in inequality in the United States is that it largely hasn’t happened because of a growth in America’s perennial poverty problem (though deep poverty — defined as living below 50 percent of […]

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Look, you can make your own Simpsons Treehouse of Horror trailer!

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With John Le Carré:
On what he regards as the hypocrisy with regard to western attitudes to Africa:
“Corporate power does not want democracy, it is damned uncomfortable. It likes to deal with the bosses, it likes the bosses to guarantee they can quell the population. If you’re an anonymous Dutch oil company opening up an oil […]

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I love this show, but I’m the only person I know who actually watches it. What gives? Not too many quality shows the entire family can watch…
I hope it’s not because it’s about a black family, because it isn’t. It’s about every family. In every single episode, I see something of my own childhood.

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I’m so used to having my civil liberties stripped away, I can’t even keep track anymore:
Despite the unprecedented and shocking nature of this act, there has been no outcry in the American media, and little reaction from our elected officials in Congress. On September 19th, a lone Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) noted that 2007’s Defense […]

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1. Call your local (city/county) board of elections to verify your voter registration. (Do a Google search.) Double-check the location of your polling place. (Many Philadelphia polling places changed this year…) In Philadelphia, the number to call is 215-686-1500.
2. Make note of the physical location - that’s where local demonstrations will take place if they […]

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Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone:
But the 109th Congress is no mild departure from the norm, no slight deviation in an already-underwhelming history. No, this is nothing less than a historic shift in how our democracy is run. The Republicans who control this Congress are revolutionaries, and they have brought their revolutionary vision for the House […]

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Whenever I hear libertarians preaching about how government shouldn’t help people, I think of families like these.
Philadelphia has a lot of older homes that were built on filled-in creekbeds, and the builders are long gone. How can people cope with this on their own?
By way of contrast, I will point out that as a reporter, […]

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Very interesting piece in the Times about why liberal Republicans in the Seattle suburbs are furious with their party:
“I am a Republican and have traditionally voted that way,” Tony Schuler, an operations services manager at Microsoft with a Harvard M.B.A., said as he sat with his wife, Deanna, in their home above Lake Sammamish. […]

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Just one more way in which we’ve made life in Iraq worse.

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Michael Kinsley on why you should vote the party and not the person. (Independents, are you listening?)

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Why, oh why can’t we have a better press corps?

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There’s something to be said for living in a 110-year-old building. There were serious wind gusts (55 m.p.h.) all over the Philadelphia metro area today, and my neighborhood was fine except for some downed tree limbs. Lots of roof damage, fallen trees and downed electrical wires all over the suburbs, though. We were lucky.

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Not that they’re going to read this, but you never know.

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Maybe with a Democratic Congress, we can address problems like this with something other than one of Bubble Boy’s half-assed snickers:
The Stern Review says that climate change represents the greatest and widest-ranging market failure ever seen. And on the basis of this intellectually rigorous and thorough report, it is hard to disagree.
Sir Nicholas […]

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From the Times UK:
Frank Luntz, a Republican pollster and one of the strategists behind the party’s 1994 takeover of Congress, told The Times: “The Santorum race shows that Reagan Democrats are returning to their roots. Economic issues among blue-collar social conservatives are now subsuming concerns about social issues.
“The Republican party has failed them. It […]

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Missy Lynn, why you so mad at me?
UPDATE: Okay, under the Equal Time provision of the Blogger Ethics Act, I’m posting this.

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