just thinking out loud
Foon Rhee at the Boston Globe has an interesting breakdown of votes versus campaign contributions: A nonpartisan watchdog group calculated that US House members who voted yes received 51 percent more in campaign contributions from the finance, insurance, and real estate sector in their congressional careers than those who opposed the emergency legislation. The Center [...]
Over the past few weeks, as the financial crisis worsened (or at least acquired more Chicken Littles) and McCain’s narrow lead slipped and then disappeared, criticism of McCain’s campaign has grown. Specifically, talk floated around the punditocracy about how his campaign is too focused on the short term goal of winning the news cycle at [...]
I am not going to bother with a string of links, but the consensus of the Left and the MSM seems to be that Obama either won outright, or he tied and that was just as good as a win for him. I disagree with both assertions. I think McCain did win, and will discuss [...]
You heard it here first. That is, unless you’ve already heard it someplace else. Anyway, I predict that Obama will see little or no ‘bump’ in the polls associated with the Democratic convention. This is counter to all of the ‘conventional’ wisdom out there, but I don’t think I’m going out on much of a [...]
