Exactly right. It's the primary reason why you don't see long-time Senators becoming President. Their records are long and the deals they have to make put them on every side of every issue.

Fourteen years ago wasn't that long ago to most voters.

Posted at September 9, 2008 1:11 PM in response to Flashback: McCain Favored Abolishing Department Of Education

My wife and I have donated every night the GOP convention has been on. We figure every dollar we give now saves us ten or twenty dollars towards an affordable college education for our kids fifteen years from now.

Posted at September 4, 2008 9:56 PM in response to Obama Camp Has Now Raised More Than $10 Million Since Palin Speech

As an aside, I was just listening to the radio and the station I was listening to has an ABC "News" update every so often. These updates are always crappy sound bites. Today's crappy sound bite was interesting. It was Jake Tapper talking about Biden wasting no time on hitting McCain on being out of touch because of all of the homes he owns. Then he says, "The McCain camp responded by saying that John McCain was a POW." His voice dripping with snark.

Posted at August 25, 2008 1:14 PM in response to McCain: It's "Honorable" To Want To Lose The War In Iraq Out Of Political Ambition

I think we'll see team Obama put more of these out now that the convention is near.

Posted at August 21, 2008 11:27 AM in response to New Obama Ad Hits McCain On Number-Of-Houses Gaffe

People are hard-wired to look for certain physical traits in leaders. It's why the vast majority of politicians are over six feet tall and are relatively nice-looking people with straight teeth. A photo of McCain lounging pool-side in a tank-top would effectively end his campaign.

Genetics ... can't live with them, can't live without them.

Posted at August 15, 2008 11:17 AM in response to McCain Campaign Attacks Obama For ... Taking His Shirt Off On A Beach

Rasmussen is very good at the straight-forward are you going to vote for candidate a, b, or c. They are a conservative polling group and will skew issue oriented polls with loaded questions.

Posted at August 15, 2008 11:06 AM in response to Election Central Morning Roundup

Ayn Rand in a nutshell...

Posted at August 13, 2008 10:37 AM in response to Tomorrow's Swift-Boating Of Obama, Today!

That's a good point. There is a huge enthusiasm gap between the candidates. Books like this serve to not only de-motivate marginal Obama supporters, but perhaps more importantly, motivate the GOP base; not out of love for McSame, but out of hatred for Obama.

Posted at August 13, 2008 10:35 AM in response to Tomorrow's Swift-Boating Of Obama, Today!

It's really weird... They also seem to have this mistaken idea that the more you cut taxes, the more money the govt. takes in from economic growth. Historical data proving the opposite has no effect. By this reasoning, shouldn't we cut taxes to .001%? Man! Think of all the cash the government would haul in then. Maroons.

Posted at August 13, 2008 10:31 AM in response to Tomorrow's Swift-Boating Of Obama, Today!

I believe that's the "born again" vote in two decades, which would be different. Still, pretty great news!

Posted at August 13, 2008 10:10 AM in response to Tomorrow's Swift-Boating Of Obama, Today!