Posted by JumpyPants 9:55 - How many Biltmore balllrooms would it take to contain the Grant Park crowd? I'm guessing more than 8, which is the number of houses John McCain owns. 9:57 - Gergen talks...
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JumpyPants Liveblogging Election 2008
Posted by JumpyPants In which I play Pancho to Bob's Cisco! 8:57 - Watching FNC is like watching a funeral in progress. Brit Hume looks like somebody stole his cold, dead heart. 9:00 - CNN says here...
Calling Today
Posted by JumpyPants Me and a bunch of moms got together during school hours today and made several hundred calls to voters in Ohio, Viriginia and North Carolina. Probably 70% answering machines...
Let’s Get to Work
Posted by JumpyPants Yes. We. Can.
My Son and I Voted
Posted by JumpyPants Before school this morning, at 7:30, my 9-year old son and I went down to VFW Hall, our polling place, to vote. He came into the booth with me, I showed him how the machine...
It’s You
Posted by JumpyPants Of the many, many reasons Barack Obama is a great human being, I would have to say the one that I believe makes him greatest, makes him not just a scuttling creature gnashing and...
Bile in the Spittle
Posted by JumpyPants Watching Senator Kit Bond of Missouri lay down the exhausted "socialism" fear-blather-nonsense point just a few minutes ago on Hardball was almost as painful as watching Senator...
Dean
Posted by JumpyPants The 50-State Strategy Works. Period. On Monday, November 3rd DNC Chairman Howard Dean will spend the last full day of the 2008 presidential election helping to get out the vote...
Who is the dork beside McCain?
Posted by JumpyPants Seriously, who is that guy? I know I've seen him somewhere.
Election Theft
Posted by JumpyPants The last two presidential elections in this country were stolen, the first one a theft in broad daylight, via the fiat of five judges, two of whom were appointed by the father of...
PA’s To-Do List
Posted by JumpyPants 1. Elect Barack Obama President 2. Get rid of this shitbird next senate election:
Five States to GOTV
Posted by JumpyPants Nate Silver knows polls. And he says five states matter right now: Those states are Virginia, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Nevada. Essentially all relevant electoral...
Here’s When We’ve Won:
Posted by JumpyPants We've won when John McCain gives a speech to his hotel ballroom full of constituents on national television. And not a moment before. National polls are not a win. State polls...
Senate Pick-Ups
Posted by JumpyPants Right now we have 51 Senate seats (including Sanders and (gag, cough, hairball) Lieberman). For the filibuster-proof majority, we need ideally need 10 more (hairball, Lieberman)...
20.1 vs. 6.1
Posted by JumpyPants Building on Bob's glee, below, over McCain having to campaign in his home state, I think it's worthwhile to look for a second at the respective leads the candidates have in their...
Just Getting Warmed Up
Posted by JumpyPants I was chatting with a fellow Obama supporter yesterday, and he said to me, "A lot of times I think it's just too late...the economy, the environment, everything." "Okay," I...
Be Real
Posted by JumpyPants When you're phone-banking or canvassing or just talking to somebody in the next six days, if they bring up any, and I mean ANY, of the absolute crap that McExplodinghead and his...
Charles Alexander
Posted by JumpyPants "He's the same in person as he is on TV." Charles Alexander said that about Barack Obama in the video that Squire Dingeldein posted below. But this man is more than just an...
90%
Posted by JumpyPants According to a new ABC News/Washington Post poll, 90% of Americans say they're comfortable with Obama's race. Keep that foremost in your mind when you read about the neo-Nazis...
Looking ahead four years
Posted by JumpyPants "When I go out, I say, 'I have a lot of respect for Sen. Obama. He's bright. He's eloquent.'" That's Joe Lieberman, back-pedaling as fast as he can in the most craven and...