Recommended Reading About Which, Etc
- From Molly Ivins, my second favorite Dixie Chick (after Linda Ellerbee and before the Dixie Chicks themselves): How dumb does Bush think we are?
- From OregonLive: Bradbury plans to investigate election complaint. The complaint is that someone’s been destroying voter registration forms–if the voters were Democrats. It’s happened in Nevada, too.
- From Alternet: Expat Patriots. Another reason to think the election isn’t going to be as close as MSNBC, CBS et all would have you believe.
- From MSNBC-Bush, Kerry arm themselves for final debate. But notice a couple of things.
“The president is widely viewed as having performed poorly in the first debate before battling Kerry to a draw in the second.”
Actually, according to every poll I’ve seen–and I mean the scientific ones–the president is widely viewed as having performed poorly in the second debate, too. But that’s outside the New York-Washington DC pundit bubble, of course. You know, I’m beginning to feel a kind of careless optimism that says Kerry is not only going to win, it’s going to be in numbers that nobody will be able to say they saw coming.
“Although the 90-minute debate is limited to economic and domestic policy, there may be questions that allow Bush to discuss foreign policy, the war in Iraq and the war against terrorism – all issues the Bush campaign thinks bodes well for him.”
Of course, the first debate was limited to those issues. You know, the debate in which even Republicans think he did poorly.
Finally, I won’t quote this but you can see for yourself why I ask this question if you follow the link above. Is it really appropriate for a journalistic story to end with a sound bite from the stump speech for one side?
