The Republican leaning Rasmussen Reports finally polled Delaware.   And the results were not surprising.

Obama-Biden 55%

McCain-Palin 43%

Not surprisingly, most Delaware voters—54%– say Obama made the right decision when selecting Senator Joe Biden to be his running mate. Just 40% say that John McCain made the right choice when he selected Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to be on the GOP ticket.

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Obama is viewed favorably by 64% of Delaware voters, McCain by 53%.

Biden comes out on top in his home state by earning positive reviews from 68% of voters. Palin receives favorable ratings from 50%.

Fifty percent (50%) say that Biden is politically liberal while 30% view him as moderate. Seventy-eight percent (78%) see Palin as politically conservative.

Today has been perhaps the most eventful day in Wall Street history since October 29, 1929.  And tomorrow may top it.     In a literal barrage of horrible news, it has been announced over the last few hours that Lehman Brothers will file for bankruptcy, and by all accounts, will be liquidated; and Merrill Lynch will be purchased by Bank of America for $44 Billion.   And thus, in a span of 24 hours, two of Wall Street’s most storied investment banks will disappear.   In the next week, it appears that Washington Mutual and AIG will also fail.

Meanwhile, Alan Greenspan, whose sneezes causes the Dow to drop 100 points, said today that the current financial crisis is the worse he has seen in his lifetime, and that the US is most assuredly heading into a deep recession.    Further, Mr. Greenspan said that McCain’s tax plan would devastate the economy.

And these GOP thugs want to run the country for another 4 years?   What, they want all the banks to fail so we really can experience 1929 all over again?

Just ask Karl Rove.

“McCain has gone in his ads one step too far, and sort of attributing to Obama things that are, you know, beyond the 100-percent-truth test,” said Rove. “Both campaigns ought to be careful about… there ought to be an adult who says: ‘Do we really need to go that far in this ad? Don’t we make our point and get broader acceptance and deny the opposition an opportunity to attack us if we don’t include that one little last tweak in the ad?'”

Thanks to Tom Noyes for letting us know about this article in the Sunday NY Times magazine.  It is a six page article that covers the whole journey of Bluewater.  Copeland and McDowell get called out for their opposition.  Tommywonk also gets a quote.

I strongly recommend you all read this

A burst of ferocity stunned the room into silence. No other word for it: The vice president’s attorney was shouting.

“The president doesn’t want this! [1] You are not going to see the opinions. You are out . . . of . . . your . . . lane!”

Five government lawyers had gathered around a small conference table in the Justice Department command center. Four were expected. David S. Addington, counsel to Vice President Cheney, got wind of the meeting and invited himself.

If Addington smelled revolt, he was not far wrong. Unwelcome questions about warrantless domestic surveillance had begun to find their voice.

Cheney and his counsel would struggle for months to quash the legal insurgency. By the time President Bush became aware of it, his No. 2 had stoked dissent into flat-out rebellion. The president would face a dilemma, and the presidency itself a historic test. Cheney would come close to leading them off a cliff, man and office both [2].

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz6RAJ54HFQ[/youtube]

From Daily Kos:

THE LINEUP:

Meet The Press: Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), small man in search of a balcony Rudy Giuliani, Bush author Bob Woodward & Chuck Todd.

Tweety: Mark Whitaker, the hot Cynthia Tucker, Patrick Healy and BBC’s Katty Kay.
Half of these quotes were embarrassingly wrong

This Weak: The great Claire McCaskill (D-MO), unqualified-for-VP Carly Fiorina, political hack Alan Greenspan.  Relic of the past George Will, Jay Carney and Claire Shipman talk about what President-Elect McCain will do now that the election is over.  Paul Begala remembers when he approached the Kerry campaign about getting tough with the gop, sticking to one message and being relentless with it, and how they ignored him.

Face The Nation: AZ Gov. Janet Napolitano, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), ex-Massachussetts Acting Gov. Jane Swift (R) and unqualified-for-VP Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-PassedOver).

Fixed Noise: ex-Alaskan Gov. Tony Knowles (D), Alaska LG Sean Parnell (R) and enemy of the constitution Karl Rove.

Late Edition with Wolf: Passed-over Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Gov. Bill Richardson, Sen. Dianne Feinstein.  Boring gop strategist Alex Castellanos, Hilary Rosen and Washington Times’ Tara Wall talk about what they want to wear to McSame’s Inagural Ball.

Fareed Zakaria GPS: Iraq War supporter Tommy Friedman – Suck. On. This. Wall Street Journal’s Bret Stephens, Council on Foreign Relations managing ed. Gideon Rose, NYU’s Moral Courage Project Driector Irshad Manji and Greg Mortenson, author of Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time.

This Dialogue Delaware vignette is very informative, and makes our two Democratic candidates for Governor look very sincere:

Jack Markell was at home in shorts and a T-shirt Tuesday night, hitting “refresh” on his computer screen to keep up with election returns, when a campaign staffer called to tell him to come down to the Riverfront and join the large crowd of supporters gathering there.

His last check of the numbers — with Wilmington precincts still remaining — wasn’t promising.

“When I got in the car, I thought I was going to lose,” he said. “I wasn’t doing as well in Wilmington as I had hoped, and I was making people crazy saying, ‘This doesn’t look good.’ It was not until John called me, when I was two minutes away from the Riverfront. He congratulated me.”

Carney said Markell was surprised by his call.

“He said, ‘You mean it’s over?’ And I said, ‘You’re ahead by 1,700 with only a few ED’s [election districts] left. There’s no way,’ ” Carney said. “He honestly was surprised.”

Indeed, in another article in today’s paper, Jack Markell also indicates that he holds no grudge towards Bluewater Wind in their effusive praise of John Carney after the Offshore Energy deal.

“Should I be fortunate enough to win the general election, I’ve got a very important job to do, to serve the people of this state,” Markell said. “Personal feelings are really unimportant at that point. The question is, what’s in the best interest of all the people of the state? That’s where my focus is.”

In normal politics in Washington and elsewhere, grudges and the consequences of endorsing a losing candidate are common.   Look at the race between Obama and Clinton.   When Hillary was the inevitable frontrunner in late 2007, many Democrats were falling over themselves to support her.   And when some Democratic officials endorsed Obama, especially a young freshman Democratic Congressman like Patrick Murphy, they were literally risking their careers.   Most politicians do hold grudges.  It is just the nature of the business.

“The consequence is there’s some type of lashback by the opponent[,” said Majority Leader Cathcart].  Markell is “too classy” to do that, [he] said.

For once, Cathcart and I agree.