Time did an article a few months back showing how McCain was an avid craps player, apparantly this has rubbed off on his campaign, as instead of putting his country first by picking a runningmate ready to assume the presidency should he die, he picked Sarah Palin governor of Alaska, who has only served 18 months and who he has only met once or twice before giving her the job.
Biden’s strong speech
August 28, 2008 — axt113
Edit, replaced three part video with one unified video courtesy of TPM
Excellent speeches
August 28, 2008 — axt113By President Clinton and John Kerry, i’ll have video of them soon
“Were you in this campaign just for me?”
August 27, 2008 — axt113Hillary challenges her supporters:
State of the race
August 23, 2008 — axt113Things have been going badly for Obama the last month, McCain’s constant barrage of negative attacks have hurt his poll numbers and the race has tightened both in national polls and in the statewide race.
electoral-vote.com
fivethirtyeight.com
Pollster.com
Obama now holds a slim overall lead, however in the next few days he has a chance to recover a larger lead as the Democratic national convention begins. Obama’s biggest saving grace is that he retains a lead, albeit slim, going into the conventions, in the last few elections, the leader after both conventions are over tends to win the election.
Biden is Obama’s veep choice
August 23, 2008 — axt113Back from my long vacation/hiatus just in time to report that Biden has been confirmed as Obama’s VP selection by CNN.
