McCain on SNL and the Obama Ad on Cheney Endorsement of McCain

Continuing with the diary style blogging I began yesterday, and did you remember to set your clocks back one hour? I forgot, as per usual for me, but I was reminded when watching the news this morning---thought I would take it upon myself to remind you.

Only 2 more days to go! I am at a point where even meditation, working out, staying away from McCain supporters, eating chocolate, raking leaves, hugging my son, cuddling with my cat, does nothing to decrease the very high level of my anxiety. For a time, I posted on a forum where I and the other Dems were quite out-numbered by neocons. I spent a lot of time at the bottom of a pile-up --- nothing I said made any sense. According to the neocons, that is. Then the owner, for reasons unknown to me, brought in even more of these people, to the point where it became very difficult for me to hold on to my temper. Actually, I didn't hold on to it, and I finally decided that in order to retain my own self-respect, I could not allow myself to post there anymore. The bad part of this is that I no longer have this outlet for my misery, and the other forum where I post is filled with others who share my views. Both are unbalanced in that way, at least for me. I will be SO glad when this election is over resolved.

ELECTION NEWS - and whatever....
► Because Senator Ted Stevens, the incumbent Republican senatorial candidate in Alaska, has refused to step down after his indictment on corruption charges, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev) warned the Alaskan voters that "Stevens would not only face an ethics investigation but also expulsion proceedings regardless of his efforts to appeal the convictions."
► Great post on The Relevant Rhino - "They Hate Us For Our Freedom - In case you hadn’t noticed, the right is becoming increasingly more desperate. This election is one giant character attack, and it flows down to every man, woman, and child with the courage to stand up to the GOP. But 40 years of failure is a bad example, and these school-yard bullies and" [......]
► Election predictions from the panel on "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos. Ooooh, it is looking so good!  Summary of the predictions from the panelists: President - Obama - 338-378 electoral votes
Senate - the Dems will pick up between 7-9 seats

House - the Dems will pick up between 27-32 seats
Also on "This Week", George interviewed Rick Davis (McCain Campaign manager) and David Axelrod (manager of the Obama Campaign) . Davis said that most polls are weighted against the GOP, without offering any really credible reasons for his opinion. When asked if McCain has far fewer paths to the 270 electoral votes needed to win, he nodded yes. Davis is a Rovian protege, and was a lobbyist. See my earlier article which provides some background on Davis
► The Obama Campaign almost always reacts rapidly. The endorsement of McCain by Dick Cheney is no exception. Hilarious ad, and sadly true.

► McCain on SNL last night. How could that possibly help him at this point? Tina Fey as Palin: “OK, listen up everybody, I’m going rogue right now, so keep your voices down,’’ and offering “PALIN 2012” T-shirts.
► In perusing my referrers for last night, I saw that one of my articles was linked to by Crooks and Liars  ---Yah!
► Inspire Site News - After the election is resolved, I will be taking at least a week off, and then I will resume posting both here and on my other, sadly neglected (because of the election) blogs. At that point, I may do an occasional political post, but not often --- I am looking forward to going back to blogging for fun here, which was my original intent.

Comments

[Relevant Rhino]

Thanks for checking out my site, and for the link...you rock, new friend.

Sadly, I will not be able to take the week off following the election, as a portion of my income relies on both daily posts and number of hits. I will, however, be working on a new format: Blue to Green.

Blue to Green will focus on a progressive Democratic platform slanted towards putting pressure on elected Democrats to pass environmentally friendly legislation and promote energy independence.

Thanks again,

Cheers

[Alan]

Just wanted to pop in here to say that you rock, Nicole. You've provided some really great coverage of this election and whatever happens on Tuesday and beyond you have a lot to be proud of.

I kind of doubt that the election will actually be resolved on Tuesday night (the past two elections disabused me of that particular notion). Let's hope we have an Obama administration that gives us no cause for angry blogging ;)

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[Inspire]

Alan....thanks for the very kind words! I am with you on hoping that we have no cause to be making angry posts on Wednesday, I am practically holding my breath, in fact. :)

[Inspire]

Relevant, my pleasure! I like the idea of a focus on promoting efforts to legislate environmentally friendly laws and energy independence....will be reading! :)