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The Wreckage of Wall Street and Barack Obama's Big Opportunity
Tweet Share on Facebook September 16, 2008 Comment (9)Various and sundry authors have taken various and sundry positions on whether the Wall Street wreckage of this week benefits the Obama or McCain camp more. My opinion is: We don't know yet. We won't even have much of a serious clue until the three-day rolling presidential tracking polls have several days of history behind them.
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Is 9/15 the New Black Monday?
Tweet Share on Facebook September 15, 2008 Comment (9)Will September 15 go down as Black Monday in Wall Street history? Will New York City remember two huge hits in future mid-Septembers: 9/11 and 9/15?
Today's meltdown among major financial Wall Street players is unprecedented, really. First, Bear Stearns folds; then, Freddie, Fannie, and countless others; now, Lehman Brothers files for bankruptcy, AIG seeks a government bailout, and Merrill Lynch, a Wall Street brand since before the Great Depression, gets bought out and bailed out. What is next?
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Following Up on the Torture Visited Upon Tennessee Walking Horses
Tweet Share on Facebook September 15, 2008 Comment (7)I want to follow up with readers on my "Torture Litany: Horrors Visited Upon Tennessee Walking Horses" post of last month.
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Palin Pushes Non-Moms Toward Obama?
Tweet Share on Facebook September 12, 2008 Comment (25)Even though I believe the polls are going in the wrong direction for Sen. Barack Obama at a very late stage of the game, even though I have whipsawed on the Sarah Palin pick (at first believing it to be brilliant, then beyond stupid, now brilliant again) and even though I believe Governor Palin's selection has brought soccer moms, hockey moms, NASCAR dads, independents, and white women into the GOP fold, here is a very interesting and quite credible read that takes the polar opposite position:
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Sarah Palin Displays a World-Class Ignorance of Foreign Affairs, but Her Supporters Won't Care
Tweet Share on Facebook September 12, 2008 Comment (111)Sarah Palin's debut interview in a widely-touted exclusive on World News with Charles Gibson showed she has little knowledge of foreign policy and needs to study up on what she, herself, has said in the recent past. Will her fans care? Not a whit.
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Punch-Drunk From Watching the Polls? Blame Today's Youth
Tweet Share on Facebook September 11, 2008 Comment (40)Watching the polls this political season has been a bit like standing on top of the net in a ping-pong match and keeping one's eye on the ball—an impossible feat. It all started with Sen. Barack Obama's surprise win in Iowa, followed by Sen. Hillary Clinton's surprise win in New Hampshire (where polls showed Obama ahead.)
Then we saw the "generic" Democratic candidate for president ahead of the "generic" Republican by double digits, only to see polls after the GOP convention with Sen. John McCain way ahead of Obama.
Why the ups and downs? Well, polls, as a "snapshot in time," do tend to jump all over the place in close elections. But this year goes beyond that.
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Sarah Palin: What's Sexist and What's Not Sexist?
Tweet Share on Facebook September 10, 2008 Comment (18)Women can be sexist, too, you know, just like persons of color can be racist. As the media debate whether Gov. Sarah Palin's public treatment is sexist or not, take this punch, socked to Palin by a woman, that's as clearly out of bounds as a husband slapping his wife in the face in public.
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Sarah Palin and White, Married Women
Tweet Share on Facebook September 10, 2008 Comment (13)Not only do white, married women vote more Republican than single white women and women of color, but married voters generally vote in greater percentages than unmarried voters.
Consider this article from Women's eNews:
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The Democrats' Gender Gap—They Lose Married White Women
Tweet Share on Facebook September 10, 2008 Comment (4)Robert, you've got it partly right about Barack Obama and white women voters.
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Barack Obama's Problem With White Female Voters
Tweet Share on Facebook September 9, 2008 Comment (44)Are Democratic leaders getting just what they deserve? Quite frankly, should they have been able to predict this wave of GOP support when they nominated an inexperienced, far-left candidate for president on the Democratic ticket?
