Nice look behind the scenes at Obama's advance man. Maybe he wishes he set up a rehearsal of the swearing in, but it was a minor blip in a great day.

Quoted: As the media and advance staff jumped out to get into position, Mr. Beliveau chided a sprinting staffer, "Remember, no running -- that's our rule." Frowning on the unnecessary show of panic, he calmly called out to the aide: "Speed walk."

Quoted: "It was never about playing to the camera but to the people," says his advance deputy, David Cusack.

Wow, that's good news. Didn't expect it after the managed bankruptcy talk yesterday.

Quoted: "In the midst of a financial crisis...allowing the U.S. auto industry to collapse is not a responsible course of action," Mr. Bush said.

I liked this a lot, even as a non-Gen-X-er

Quoted: Your earnest, self-important prattle has gotten on Gen X nerves for decades. But now we finally get it.

Quoted: And look, we really did stand for something, underneath all the eye-rolling. We're feminists, we care about the environment, we want to improve race relations, we volunteer. We're just low-key about it. We never wanted to do it the way you did it: So unselfconscious, so optimistic, guilelessly throwing yourself behind Team Liberal. We didn't get that. We aren't joiners. We don't like carrying signs. We tend to disagree, if only on principle.

Nice campaign photos.

Here's the Michigan version of new websites going up in swing states. John McCain really doesn't understand Michigan...no chance of changing that since he decided to hightail it out of here.

Quoted: Learn why John McCain just doesn't understand Michigan.

All that Teflon Sarah talk was annoying. She was a great story like Obama was a great story. But the pendulum swings back on those.

Quoted: A tight race? It certainly is a tight race, and has been all year. But this, of course, is not really the lead story. The story is that there has been a rather dramatic shift in the national polling toward Barack Obama in the past 2-4 days, coinciding with the Wall Street financial crisis. Some pundits will love this, since it gives them something fresh to talk about. But others, like those cynical beat writers in the Wrigley Field press box, will be annoyed, because it means that the the story they were telling us just a few days ago -- that the Obama campaign was in trouble, that Sarah Palin was the greatest thing since sliced bread -- has now been more or less invalidated.

Are these photo-shopped? I don't think so. Nothing like gas prices to make politicians act silly. Still got his back, but this is a little embarrassing.

Quoted: Obama is such a snob about motorcars that he didn't know the car had to BE THERE for him to fill it up. He has never driven a car in his life. He rides a velvet-seated flying pineapple that runs on Dom Perignon champagne fuel.

We know him too! Congrats, John. They did a very nice job with this.

Quoted: Hard at work in the national campaign headquarters of Barack Obama, John Zwier '05 still believes God is not a Republican—or a Democrat.

Let's hope Pennsylvania is close and that Hillary withdraws with grace. If she does, she might just end up on the ticket after all.

Quoted: Fifty-one percent negatives among white voters, no cash — and now a lead in Pennsylvania that has dwindled to five points: They don’t come any more stalwart than Hillary Clinton, but the next three weeks are going to be one long death march.