A Couple Items From the New Republic
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Jeffrey Rosen gets at least one thing right in his article in the latest issue of The New Republic:
This year, for the first time since the New Deal era, a single election really does have the power to transform the Court--at the very moment that voters, rightly concerned about the tanking economy and the war in Iraq, are looking the other way.
And, the New Republic also has some positive polling news for McCain-Palin:
Strategic Vision has McCain narrowly ahead in both Florida and Ohio, and gaining ground in Pennslyvania. Strategic Vision is a Republican polling firm, and indeed has had a 2-3 point Republican lean this cycle, but nevertheless, these represent significant improvements for McCain in all three states from Strategic Vision's last set of polling. Rasmussen, meanwhile, has him narrowly ahead in North Carolina -- actually the first North Carolina poll that he's led in some time -- and closing his difference with Obama in New Hampshire, where his taxation message may be selling well.
So, it's still very much an open question who will win the election, though Obama definitely seems to have an edge now.
Scared yet?
by AC1
Warning: This will cause you to lose sleep.
Unreal
by AC1
We are about to elect a guy President who believes the Warren court was not radical enough and he thinks the courts should mandate redistribution of wealth. To top it all off, he may have 60 votes in the Senate. We may get someone nominated to the USSC that has never been mentioned before because it was assumed they were to radical. We may be lucky to get Harold Koh.
AC1
by BoBo
Obama's radio interview is truly disturbing. I hope McCain's campaign promotes it to the hilt!!!
There's a lot of idiocy in that Rosen article, much of it the usual Dem GOTV scaremongering, but Whelan's "Grand Deal" is the most idiotic. Aside from the fact that almost every Dem would throw Obama's kids in a meatgrinder and sacrifice the rest of his agenda in order to preserve (let alone expand Roe), anyone who thinks that "preserving" the Pledge of Allegiance is more important than "fixing" affirmative action, school busing, Kelo, gun rights, etc, deserves to lose a POTUS election by 200 EVs, IMO.
Speaking of which, there's no doubt the POTUS race is tightening (the HOR & Senate remain disasters, FTMP). Whether this is just the usual last week tightening (pre-buying remorse & last second hesitation) is hard to say. This has been & remains an election like no other. The media is fully in the tank for Barry (the most egregious example being the free pass Biden's (much worse) gaffes have gotten viz Palin's), and there likely have been more than a few "self-fulfilling, hoped-for-results", based polling models constructed.
We'll see; can't give up yet, and there will be plenty of time for recriminations if the worst happens, tho it's always tempting to get an early start at that.... :)
STEVENS, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which SCALIA, J., joined.