Nightly Ramble:Race is Now Tied Again…Biden Brain Scan Finds Nothing; More McCain Sign Stealing; More

Welcome dear reader, to the most intense nightly read on the ‘sphere… BitsBlog’s Nightly Ramble.

• I mentioned last night about polling data… and they’ve been having a bit of a row over it on many of the blogs I’ve

Welcome dear reader, to the most intense nightly read on the ‘sphere… Bitsblog’s Nightly Ramble.

• Second place for the boss at OTB’s caption contest.
• Market went up another 300 points this morning. Lost most of that in the afternon,

David’s quote of Ed Morressy seems to me quite on the money. Consider the operative phrase of Ed’s very first line: “Stench of Desperation”.

And what is driving this desperation, you may ask? Wasn’t Obama ahead? What explains this?
Well,

Welcome, dear reader, to the most intense nightly read in the ‘sphere… The Nightly Ramble….

Tuesday. 28 days until the election.4 days until my vacation, and about 5 hours to the second debate. And if you don’t understand the joke

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A new week. A new Monday. And a few surprises over the weekend. Let’s get to it.

• Sam Youngman at The Hill reports that Sarah

Welcome, dear reader, to the most intense nightly read in the ‘sphere… The Nightly Ramble….

A busy Wednesday, and a new month. Let’s get to it.

• George Will questions the qualifications of Sarah Palin? That’s OK, I’ve long since started

Friday, end of the week. Fall is here, with a bang… 43 degrees this morning and even colder in some of the hills south of I90, and up in the Adirondacks. Leaves are changing the birds are flocking. Let’s see

• By the time you read this, I’ll already be soaking up the outdoors by the lakeshore, and soaking, is the word.  Remember that 30% chance of rain? We’re now to 70%. and as of noon, the whole of upstate NY

It’s remarkable, the lack of reaction from the left to last night’s speech. Take a look for yourself at 7am Eastern time today at the lack coverage of it. Particularly, take note of how few leftie blogs utter a

• YetAnotherJohn gets a first place, and I get an Honorable Mention at OTB’s Caption Contest. It must be said, John has a nice touch for that kind of thing.
• I’ve noted a shift in the readership of BitsBlog the

James Joyner at OTB, this morning notes a new Ad from the McCain camp.

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James notes there’s a pattern of wrting going on and cites a couple examples:

The campaign also quickly emailed around a CNN Political Ticker

The subject of Negative Campaigns came up at OTB yesterday.

I tell James:

There are some issues one cannot play Pollyanna over. As an example, and at the risk of tossing this thing down a subthread, let’s run a quote

According to the Chicago Sun-Times:

Robert Novak has announced his immediate retirement following the diagnosis of a brain tumor, a prognosis the Sun-Times’ political columnist describes as “dire.”

“The details are being worked out with the doctors this week,

Little Green Footballs is on the ball, here, having noticed about half of blogdom is missing… if, that is you’re using IE7… saying about 7pm EDT:

I’ve confirmed that there’s some kind of problem on the Internet, that only seems

• It’s August, already? Where the hell did July go?   2/3rds of the summer is gone and I’m just getting started on the stuff I wanted to do this year.
• Honorable Mention at OTB’s caption Contest. I gotta admit, that