Motley Moose – Archive

(Cross-posted at Clintonistas for Obama)

The frenzy of voting in Georgia continues.  On Tuesday, I reported that an extraordinary amount of voting had already occurred in Georgia.  On Tuesday, 499,582 persons had cast early ballots; that was already a total of 75,000 more early voters than we had seen during the entire 2004 early voting cycle in Georgia.  As of yesterday, just three days later, Georgia’s Election Division had recorded 136,216 more ballots; in other words, the number of early ballots cast by Friday was more than 27 percent greater than the number of ballots cast on Tuesday.  

The Obama campaign apparently is worrying privately that we supporters of Barack Obama, sitting on top of an enduring lead, will grow complacent and assume we’re just going to win this thing and forget to work, forget to give money, and forget to vote.  

The Chicago Tribune first published an edition in the 1840s.  From that time, it had never before endorsed a Democrat for president.  Today, it broke that tradition with its endorsement of Barack Obama.  

(Cross-posted at Clintonistas for Obama)

The Washington Post this morning has an interesting story on the ground game in Virginia.  

The Washington Post tonight endorses Barack Obama in an editorial entitled, “Barack Obama for president.”  It endorsement is enthusiastic and minces no words, “It is without ambivalence that we endorse Sen. Barack Obama for president.”  It says that two basic reasons found its endorsement:

(Cross-posted at Clintonistas for Obama)

The Washington Post is revealing a potential scandal that affects the McCains.  Seems that Cindy thought her ranch in the desert needed cell phone coverage, and fortunately, her husband happens to be “a senior member of the Senate Commerce Committee, which oversees the Federal Communications Commission and the telecommunications industry.”  So what a cellular service provider to do?  

(Cross-posted at Clintonistas for Obama)

I thought it might be interesting to get a sense of the basic current view of Internet prognosticators of the Electoral College outcomes.

(Cross-posted at Clintonistas for Obama.)

Ben Smith has posted on his blog at Politico.com a short update about the incoming numbers of early voters in Georgia.  There is a disproportionate number of Africans Americans who have cast early ballots in the Peach State.  Though only 29 percent of registered voters in Georgia are Black, 37 percent of early voters in Georgia are Black.  We still have three weeks before the election, and 75,000 more Georgians already have cast ballots than all early votes cast in Georgia in 2004.  Data is available from the web site of the Georgia Election Division.

Marc Ambinder has been talking with contacts he maintains in the Republican campaign.  Apparently, as we might have anticipated if we gave it thought, there is a game plan for the last 10 days:

Adam Nagourney writes up a breezy little list of six what-if scenarios that might cause McCain to win the presidency.  None of the points, except perhaps one of them, actually reflects a dynamic currently in play; even if the one might be in play, they are all contingencies that rely on speculation about what might happen.  They sort of fall into the, “if wishes were horses,” category.