Quoted: This election is not about major policies. It's about hope.

Quoted: What Obama Has Going For Him
Hipsters. Lots and lots of them. They love Obama. They're educated, they live in their same-sex households, they donate to Obama at a much higher clip than most states, and they're going to wear ironic clothing and send in their permanent absentee ballots for the Democratic candidate for president.

Quoted: On “Meet the Press,” Colin L. Powell called Barack Obama a “transformational figure” and said that John McCain’s campaign had gone “too far” in its attacks.

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Obama thinks white people are trash, and other "facts" from the good folks of rural Ohio (pretty sure #3 is Eli from TWBB).

Quoted: As the US presidential campaign enters its final weeks, both the Republican and Democratic candidates are hitting the swing states. But misconceptions and ru...

I think the Obama camp would have been happy with a split here, but looks like the opening section on the economy tipped it. I wonder if McCain's original goal with the campaign suspension was to delay the foreign policy debate enough that the economic section would be omitted.

Quoted: The CBS poll of undecideds has more confirmatory detail. Obama went from a +18 on "understanding your needs and problems" before the debate to a +56 (!) afterward. And he went from a -9 on "prepared to be president" to a +21.

He was against the debate before he was for it.

Quoted: Senator John McCain reversed his earlier call to postpone the debate so he could participate in the Congressional talks over the $700 billion bailout plan for financial firms.

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Quoted: http://hmatkin.blogspot.comBecause someone had to do it...Senator Obama just BarackRoll'd you (like a rickroll... only Presidential).

Quoted: But the fact is that Obama is in a stronger position now than he was immediately before the conventions.