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I know Nancy Reagan is a horrible person, but I don't think she deserves to be starved to death by her handlers.

h/t Daily Kos: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dic4oh5M11s[/youtube]  

Pundits and partisans tend to be impressed by attacks, but the portion of the population that actually watches debates with changeable minds don't.  They judge the candidates on such inane factors like demeanor,…

He did it again. He won right under my nose. I was looking for something from Obama that he was not delivering, meanwhile he was quietly kicking McCain's ass -…

My Take: The GOP gets to pretend that McCain is the comeback kid.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l63SRpGXBHE[/youtube] h/t numerous websites, including but not limited to Daily Kos, Marc Ambinder at The Atlantic, Ezra Klein, Talking Points Memo.

This is a direct pickup from Kos Diarists Olon: In FiveThirtyEight.com's article about early voting today, there was a comment that deserves higher status than a comment. The user's profile…

TPM asks...Will McCain Man Up? Will McCain make eye contact with Obama? Will he finally have the nerve to bring up Bill Ayers to Obama's face, as he's been doing…

CNN / TIME have just released new battleground polls: COLORADO: Obama 51, McCain 47 FLORIDA: Obama 51, McCain 46 GEORGIA: McCain 53, Obama 45 MISSOURI: McCain 49, Obama 48 VIRGINIA:…

WE DON'T TORTURE PERIOD The Bush administration issued a pair of secret memos to the CIA in 2003 and 2004 that explicitly endorsed the agency's use of interrogation techniques such…