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By jwilkes - Thursday, September 18th, 2008 at 1:45 PM
Just when he thought he was starting to get an upper hand, GOP presidential nominee John McCain has begun to lose his footing.
The days and weeks following his announcement of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate and the Republican National Convention the following week, McCain laid claim to a largely unexpected poll more...
By jwilkes - Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 at 1:45 PM
Forget everything you’ve ever heard about every other “battleground state” in the 2008 election. Only one matters. If Barack Obama can win Virginia, he becomes the 44th President of the United States. Here’s why.
There are eleven states whose polling averages (courtesy of
RealClearPolitics.com) create a margin of less more...
By jwilkes - Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 at 6:42 PM
About six weeks ago, Barack Obama might as well have sent his decorators over to the White House to start measuring for drapes. The presidential race was that lopsided. But today, the story is very different. Obama is clinging to razor-thin margins that would allow him to take just enough electoral votes to squeak into office if the election were more...
By jwilkes - Monday, September 15th, 2008 at 2:07 PM
With the collapse of world investment banking giant Lehman Brothers (which came right on the heels of the collapse of Bear Sterns, another investment bank), Americans are staring down the barrel of an economic crisis that is beginning to look more and more like the financial conditions that led to the stock market collapse and Great Depression of more...
By jwilkes - Sunday, September 14th, 2008 at 2:24 AM
In a front-page story running in its enlarged Sunday morning edition, the New York Times is running an acerbic indictment of Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin. The feature delves deeply into Palin’s record as mayor of the small Alaskan town of Wasilia, as well as her first year and a half in the governor’s mansion.
The more...
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