Now that the primaries are over....

...the Veepstakes have begun. The first poll that includes potential Veeps for Obama and McCain is now out.

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A lot of people think the debate was pretty even. Obama supporters liked Obama, McCain supporters liked McCain, I assume (that is utterly obvious). But what matters is the effect on uncommitted voters. Aside from the effects of the three major gaffs that McCain made (the cost to him, to his…
In the Gallup Tracking Poll for the US election, Obama leads McCain for the ninth straight day, and for the seventeenth out of the last nineteenth pollings. We will have to see if the absurd new tactics being attempted by Palin and her running mate McCain will have an effect on this one way or…
I know I don't blog about pure politics much, but it's the weekend, I'm too tired to do anything heavy-duty about medicine or science, and this depressed me. As much as I'd like to delude myself that things have changed, it turns out that they haven't changed nearly as much as I'd like to think, as…
A word about some of the battle ground states, including Florida, Ohio, North Carolina, Virginia and Pennsylvania. As you know, McCain has been claiming that the "gap is closing" in many toss up states. This is an expected exaggeration, but it is not pure fantasy, and it is a bit worrisome.…