Bithead Reads the Numbers And the Future

James Joyner at OTB mentions the current reading at Electoral-vote.com and says:

If the election were held today, Barack Obama would cruise to victory with 317 Electoral Votes to John McCain’s 194, according to projections tabulated by Electoral-Vote.com. Florida,

A cow is a cow, without regard to color.  Mary C. Curtis, Washington Post, moos about the “Silence Of Feminists:”

Michelle Obama has become an issue in the presidential campaign even though she isn’t running for anything.

JACKSONVILLE, Florida (Reuters) – Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama said on Friday he expects Republicans to highlight the fact that he is black as part of an effort to make voters afraid of him.

Republicans? Seems to me the only

Sadly, Barack’s insistence on gentle and civil debate seems to be as one-sided as his voting record in the Senate

Carol Platt Liebau, Townhall

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Barack Obama has now taken to mocking the Seal of the President of the United States.   Photo courtesy of CNN.   John McCormack, Weekly Standard, suggests that BO’s faux seal is illegal:

18 USC Sec. 713 …
(a) Whoever

An interesting note at the LA Times Blog this morning:

Led by chairman Mike Duncan, the Republican National Committee ended May with 13 times more money in the bank than its Democratic counterpart, and raised five times as much

The mortgage bail-out bill pending in the Senate, the so-called, Dodd-Shelby mortgage-lender bailout bill was written by the its chief beneficiary, Bank of America.  BOA paid the bill’s co-sponsor to push their bill.  Stephen Spruiell, National Review has both the

Charles Krauthammer explains the problem with John McCain’s energy policy and with Barack Obama’s entire campaign, Washington Post::

Alas, McCain’s proposed reform is only partial. Still better than Obama, however, who refuses to deviate from liberal orthodoxy. But that

Ben Castlemen at the WSJ this morning points out that lifting the drilling ban would not be an immididate fix for our situation.

If the bans were lifted tomorrow, it would be at least seven years — and likely as

ABC’s Political Punch this morning:

In a web video to supporters — “the people who built this movement from the bottom up” — Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, announced this morning that he will not enter into the public financing system,

Congressman Maurice Hinchey(D-NY), want to natinnalize domeestic oil refineries(industry?), via Beldar Blog:

So if there’s any seriousness about what some of our Republican colleagues are saying here in the House and elsewhere about improving the number of refineries, then

The left side of the ‘shepere is all over the story of Larry Sinclair being arrested following his apearence at the National Press Club, yesterday. Blogger News Network says:

Larry Sinclair-the gay man who’s accused Senator Barack Obama of sharing

Just how stupid is Barack “BO” Obama?, via John Brody, Brody FilesL

“This is unfortunately become a habit in our politics where anything’s fair game, and we just make things up about people. If you think about Michelle, I mean

So, President Bush has now joined John McCain’s call to eliminate the federal ban on offshore oil drilling. He’s even asked Congress to do so. This strikes me as a smart move, both in the political world, and the

Jason Horowitz at the New York Observer this morning:
(Warning: NSFW)

A former bundler to Hillary Clinton just called in to tell me that Barack Obama’s selection of Patti Solis Doyle as chief of staff to the campaign’s eventual vice