Obama wins...

The state of Ohio, about 35 minutes ago, was announced for Obama. McCain needed both Ohio and Florida to have any realistic hope of winning the election. Too bad... but hopefully not too, too bad. Sigh.

It's over.

Congratulations to the next president of the United States... Barack Obama. May he serve with a wisdom beyond his experience.

Electoral Map Breakdown on Nov. 4th

There is an interactive electoral map over at Real Clear Politics. Here is my map with my best guess for tomorrow's election results:
Click on map to enlarge

To win McCain would need to also win Virginia and New Mexico/Colorado or Virginia and Pennsylvania. That is too big of stretch in my mind to be realistic. But I am really ready for a down the stretch surprise!

Halloween editorial cartoons...

A Gary McCoy cartoon linked from the Media Blog at NRO


From The Ryskind Sketchbook

Something is wrong with this picture...

A trend it seems. And this guy might end up being the one to occupy the office of the President of the United States of America? Not to worry... just have another swig of the kool-aid.

Last refuge of a scoundrel?

Michael Ramirez of IBD sums up the attitude of the Obama campaign, it's surrogates, and much of the mainstream media (sorry to be redundant again...). More and more just about any kind of criticism of Obama by Republicans on any issue is being sloughed off and rebuffed with accusations of racism. Click on the cartoon to enlarge it.

As the race tightens this tactic of crying racism by the Obama campaign is becoming more and more frequent. Are they getting a little worried?

The Race keeps tightening....

Rasmussen has Obama up by 3 points. But as you get into the internals of the poll it really looks even tighter:

Among those who “always” vote in general elections, Obama leads by just a single point.

As for those who have not yet voted but are “certain” they will do so, the race is tied at 48%. Two percent (2%) of these “certain” voters plan to vote for a third party option while 2% say they are undecided.

It is still an uphill battle for McCain/Palin and, with less than a week, unlikely that they'll squeeze out a victory. But it is getting interesting.

So I have gone from... "it's over" to "it ain't over till it's over" to now... "wouldn't it be sweet if John and Sarah pull out a last minute victory over the one."

If Obama were to lose, the shock and outrage on the left and in the MSM (sorry to be redundant) would register off the Richter scale... that would be something to behold.

As Yogi Berra said...

"It ain't over till it's over..."

Did I call this for Obama too early? As we enter the last two and a half weeks of the campaign it appears that the race is tightening up.

According to a couple of the latest polls-

Gallup: 49% Obama 47% McCain among likely voters.
AP/Yahoo: 44% Obama 42% McCain based on poll of 873 Democrats and 650 Republicans.

And why are you voting for Obama?

Ignorance on the part of some of the electorate (more than one cares to know) is always to be expected in varying degrees. Here it is laughingly and shockingly highlighted by this Howard Stern video... an unlikely source for me to post (hat tip Newsbusters blog).

It wold be nice to imagine that those voting for either candidate had some idea of what policies each stood for, what each one's past record is, and (by all means) who their Vice Presidential running mate is!

A new low in voter IQ?

Investing? It's all relative...

If one year ago you invested a thousand dollars in Delta Airlines, or AIG, or Lehman Brothers... this is what you would have today to show for your market savy:

Delta.......... $49
AIG............ $33
Lehman......... 0

But if you had purchased $1000 worth of beer and drank all of it, then you would have:

Aluminum beer cans recycled...... $241

Obviously in these dire and stressful financial times drinking beer may be both the best therapeutic and investment choice.

... Or is this it?!

George Will writing today in a column entitled, McCain In A Bear Market, conjures up the words of the former Baltimore Orioles' manager Earl Weaver, "Are you going to get any better or is this
it?"

Will gets to the heart of McCain's problematic approach to the ongoing economic Wall Street and Main Street downturn:

Recently Obama noted -- perhaps to torment and provoke conservatives -- that McCain's rhetoric about Wall Street's "greed" and "casino culture" amounted to "talking like Jesse Jackson." What fun: one African American Chicago politician distancing himself from another African American Chicago politician by associating McCain with him.

Read the whole thing.