Keep talking… it ain’t over yet.

Leonard Cohen
Anthem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ssZ32ahjGM

I can’t run no more
with that lawless crowd
while the killers in high places
say their prayers out loud.
But they’ve summoned, they’ve summoned up
a thundercloud
and they’re going to hear from me.

Ring the bells that still can ring .

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.
That’s how the light gets in.
That’s how the light gets in.

McCain is trying to win a grassroots signage campaign. Now people are putting two McCain signs in their yards (opposite corners of front property) to make it appear like two McCain homes when it is one.

The point is, the Palin interview says broadcast is no longer the dominant media for forming political influence.

A couple thoughts here, not necessarily coterminous. Perhaps people figured out that they wouldn’t have anything to gain by watching subsequent episodes of the Couric-Palin Show, which while indeed pumping up Couric’s brand (might as well use their terminology) also indicates that a trainwreck is a trainwreck. No matter how grisly, it’s exceedingly rare for rubberneckers to actually stop the car once they’ve passed it so that they can get an even better look.

Secondly, it could be that the online excerpts of the interviews were enough to get the gist across. I think this holds true for internet-based news readers, but there are still entire swaths of the American population who simply cannot stand to read or watch the news on a computer. That these people aren’t tuning in for more of their potential Veep Next Door speaks to the unintended consequence of their spreading the interviews out over days and days (and weeks!). Apparently even the lowest common denominator philosophy (a la Couric) enjoys a level of idiot-fatigue.

broadcast is no longer the dominant media for forming political influence.

Certainly true with the broadband-enabled demographic. I don’t know how large the not broadband-enabled demographic is but it’s substantial.

I send links and YouTube embeds in e-mails to friends and family. They appreciate it which came as a surprise. Apparently, seeing is believing (even if its misleading).

A YouTube video is how anti-Palin protests in Anchorage, two of them so far, can be effectively communicated to friends and family who have an interest in this race.

Campaign ads, political satire from Stewart, SNL, Olbermann, Maddow, clips from CSPAN are effective ways to communicate with friends and family on political topics.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0…..09,00.html

Obama builds widening lead – poll

From correspondents in Washington

DEMOCRAT Barack Obama is building widening leads in battlegrounds Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, in new polls released today in the trio of states that could be the key to victory on November 4.
New surveys by Quinnipiac University found Obama boosted by his performance in Friday’s presidential debate, the sliding popularity of Republican John McCain’s running mate Sarah Palin and his handling of the economic crisis.

“It is difficult to find a modern competitive presidential race that has swung so dramatically, so quickly and so sharply this late in the campaign,” said Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac polling institute.

The surveys show that Senator Obama leads McCain by a gaping 54 per cent to 39 per cent after the debate in Pennsylvania, compared to 49 per cent to 43 per cent before the debate.

He is up 51 per cent to 43 per cent in swing state Florida, compared to a 49 to 43 per cent lead before Friday’s first of three high-stakes presidential debates.

And in Ohio, Senator Obama is up eight points, 50 per cent to 42 per cent, after having led by 49 per cent to 42 per cent before the clash in Mississippi.

### Folks here in Ohio and college students are pumped up I mean pumped up to vote for Obama. They will trump the Palin/bubba vote if the students show up. No need to spend time on Ohio Universities campus for Obama there are 5-10 people out everyday. I have seen this on the five campuses I have been on pushing for increasing registrations. These young folks are on fire. I really believe the only way McCain can win in Ohio is if they illegally shave off the votes like they did the last time.

I liked Edwards response to this (and I believe it was sincere) that he had made a SERIOUS MISTAKE voting yes on the 2002 war resolution and that he would never support another warmongering resolution.

Biden could follow Edwards lead on this one and say that Congress was given even more faulty intelligence than the public was endlessly being pounded with by the Bush administration before the illegal and immoral invasion of Iraq.

Of course I think that this is lame because all you had to do was turn on the Diane Rehm show before the invasion and hear Scott Ritter, Ray McGovern, and many other questioning the validity of the intelligence and the sources for the intelligence. Could not figure out why they could not have simply delayed that vote until after the mid term election

Oh and let’s not forget El Baradei in early March 2003 telling the world that the Niger Documents were false. Have you noticed not one person has been held accountable for that false intelligence

Biden did learn and voted against the warmongering Kyl Lieberman amendment last fall.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npzN3dZR6JM

####anybody else notice how Lieberman is now standing behind Palin during several news events.

I’m really sick of other people telling me I have to beg for forgiveness. the point is self reflection, folks. if ones wants to or feels the need. we wish more people did, but realizing that doesn’t come from highhanders like mcgovern. sheesh, go have dinner with your family.