According to the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, 8% of voters remain undecided. And who are these indecisive folks? Pew says:
Undecided voters are less educated, less affluent, and somewhat more likely to be female than the average voter … undecided voters are also more likely to attend church regularly.
I’m not sure [...]

All positive movement for Obama today as he gains 2 in the registered model, stays the same in the likely expanded and gains 1 in the likely traditional.
But again, since Rasmussen’s numbers have tightened, I have to think that if Obama starts to dip below 49% in Gallup’s other two models, the face is changing [...]

What’s all this furor? With barely a week to go, Sarah Palin has become the CNN scapegoat for McCain’s impending doom. CNN’s Rick Sanchez attempted another “Gotcha” moment yesterday afternoon as he tried to catch Palin disagreeing with Boss McCain on Ted Stevens; but before he could assess her first statement about the “sad day [...]

Today, the New York Times takes a look at Sarah Palin’s future position within the Republican Party, whether John McCain wins or loses.
I think a quote by former Bush strategist Matthew Dowd captures the challenge Palin will face:
She’s an attractive woman who can give a great speech, but the American public doesn’t view her much [...]

Following up on yesterday’s money posts from Alan and me – A couple of stories shedding more light on the Axelrod/Obama Greatest Political Money Machine In The History Of The Known Universe.
Mathew Mosk – Washington Post
Obama Accepting Untraceable Donations:
“Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign is allowing donors to use largely untraceable prepaid credit cards [...]

This morning I erroneously put up a post about taxes. I was still in the process of vetting the information but hit “publish” instead of “save.”
I corrected the problem fairly quickly, but I wanted to make sure anyone who happened to read the post knows why it won’t be reappearing: I discovered the info I [...]

Obama – 50%
McCain – 47%
Obama loses one and McCain gains one as the numbers tighten further today.
For the moment it appears as if McCain’s “socialist” attacks are working, and I can’t help but think that the 2001 audio from Monday has had a small effect on the race. But then again…that’s what October surprises do. [...]

So will you all be watching Barack Obama’s first Presidential address infomercial slated to hit all the major networks except ABC tonight? I suppose when you have as much money as the Obama campaign, a little 30 minute long, primetime ad is a pretty good way to saturate the market with your brand message.
My question [...]

A new ad from the Obama campaign simultaneously hits John McCain on the economy and his choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate:

The Obama-Biden campaign has directly singled out Senator John McCain’s choice of a running mate — using footage of Gov. Sarah Palin as she winks — in a new commercial that questions [...]

South Carolina’s largest newspaper reports on the expected flood of voters on Election Day:
State election leaders say they are prepared for a possible record turnout of voters one week from today.
There are 18,000 poll workers in training, thousands of electronic voting machines anticipated to perform correctly and, just in case, a Plan B if problems [...]

Maybe late-night comics should be rooting for John McCain and Sarah Palin. If the Republican ticket loses, the comics will have to find new material.
Check this story out.
From Sept. 1 through Friday, the Republicans were the target of 475 jokes by Jay Leno and David Letterman alone. The Democratic team of Obama and Joe [...]

MSNBC compiles a fun six minute piece that chronicles from start to (almost) finish.

Is it sad or awesome that I remember every single one of those interviews and soundbites?
I’ll go with awesome.

Obama drops a big net 3 points today in all the models, but still maintains a sizeable lead in two of them.
However, with the margin narrowing in Rasmussen’s poll too, we could be seeing a last minute tightening after McCain’s attacks on spreading the wealth.
Registered Voters: Obama +7

Likely Voters (Expanded Model): Obama +7

Likely Voters (Traditional [...]

At some point, we have to step back and try to grasp the sheer enormity of what Axelrod and Obama have wrought. We can just look at it and admire it as a spectacle, as a force of nature, much like staring at Niagara Falls, Mount Everest or the Grand Canyon. The Axelrod/Obama campaign has spent as much selling the Barack Obama brand as McDonald’s spends selling hamburgers. Obama is spending $293,000/hour to win the Presidency.

“We’re set up, unlike other states in the union, where it’s collectively Alaskans own the resources. So we share in the wealth when the development of these resources occurs.”
- Sarah Palin quoted in the latest New Yorker
Now, I don’t know about you, but “share in the wealth” certainly sounds exactly like “spreading the wealth.”
Do you [...]

Remember she of SNL fame?
Well, she apparently thinks that Obama may literally be the devil.
And no, it’s not a joke…
I don’t want a political label, but Obama bears traits that resemble the anti- Christ and I’m scared to death that un- educated people will ignorantly vote him into office.
You see, what bothers me most, [...]

Something’s going on over at our hosting service Media Temple, which means our site has been up and down the past hour.
Sorry for any confusion. We should be good now.
Fingers crossed.

First, Chuck Todd talks about the battlegrounds. No surprise…the trends favor Obama.

And then…the bigger news: early voting.
Looks like Obama’s ground game is really working.

One thing I would note about those places where Democrats and Republicans are neck and neck…Republicans ALWAYS dominate early voting across the country. So even if Dems are tied in some of [...]

Is Barr this year’s Nader? Probably not because this doesn’t appear to be a close call.
However, he could definitely siphon off crucial votes in New Hampshire and Georgia.

So, will Barr help bring about an Obama landslide?

Yet another brilliant user generated pro-Obama ad. This time it’s from the same guys who created those hilarious “Wassup!” ads for Budweiser back in 2000.

Obama has run a 21st century campaign and his supporters followed in kind. But McCain ran a 20th century campaign and he never inspired people to create ads like this. Sure, [...]