""Hess oil would stand to make a killing from offshore drilling," Donnelly continued. "Berman and Green were their lobbyists. Did they play any role in lining up these contributions?""

In the immortal word of Senator Stevens: "NO!"

Posted at August 7, 2008 4:05 PM in response to High-Ranking McCain Campaign Officials Were Paid Lobbyists For Hess

Please stop using the term "DOUBLE DOWN" when referring to these kinds of gambits. As all blackjack players know, you double down from a position of strength, when you have a much better than 50/50 chance of beating the house. I think the term that applies here is double or nothing.

Posted at July 31, 2008 8:25 PM in response to McCain: Accusing Obama Of Playing Race Card Is "Legitimate"

I think Obama needs to go negative with both barrels, now. The way to win an election has been, is, and always will be, to make the other guy look worse than you. Go negative early and often, in as many venues as you can get, deny that you are going negative, and accuse the other guy of going negative. It works EVERY TIME.

Posted at July 31, 2008 8:12 PM in response to Another Poll Shows Montana Is A Swing State

I guess the truth hurts. Obama IS a symbol for me, and I suspect, for a whole lot of other people as well. I don't understand how this hurts him, if anything it hurts the GOP for even bringing it up...

Posted at July 30, 2008 12:08 PM in response to Account Of Obama Hailing His Own Symbolic Importance Is Disputed

I bet Don Young's lawyers are on the phone with DOJ right now, talking plea. He is a goner...

Posted at July 29, 2008 1:15 PM in response to BREAKING: U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens Indicted in Federal Court

Any poll that doesn't include cell phones overestimates McCain. I mean how many people do you know that even use a land line these days?

Posted at July 24, 2008 11:57 AM in response to Polls: McCain Coming On Strong In Battleground States

I go with the bumper sticker theory as well. So far this year, I can only recall seeing ONE McCain sticker, and hundreds of Obama stickers. I live in Los Angeles, but still. In the last election I saw plenty of Cheney Bush stickers.

Any poll that shows McCain within 10 points of Obama in any state is wrong. With the exception of Utah, those people would vote for Satan over God if Satan was the republican and God, the democrat...

Posted at July 18, 2008 11:36 AM in response to Poll: Obama, McCain In Dead Heat In Virginia

Well we can't even count on Jon Stewart for this one, he's so far up McCain's butt you can see his face when McCain opens his mouth...Maybe Colbert can come to the rescue...

Posted at July 8, 2008 6:04 PM in response to McCain Will Balance Budget By End Of First Term. Or Was It Second?

Um, isn't McCain himself in that same Congress with the 12 percent approval rating? Like for the last 20 years or so?

Posted at July 8, 2008 1:29 PM in response to McCain: "I Would Imagine That We Are" In A Recession

A Republican spouting Matthew. Now THAT'S irony...

Posted at June 18, 2008 5:03 PM in response to John Doolittle Lives!