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By jwilkes - Monday, October 27th, 2008 at 11:09 PM
Las Vegas has moved from taking bets not just on whether or not GOP presidential nominee John McCain’s campaign will go down, and started allowing wagers on just big the flames will be as it does.
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Odds of an Obama landslide- meaning that he earns not just the 270 electoral votes needed to win the election, but 370 out of a total more...
By jwilkes - Sunday, October 26th, 2008 at 2:28 PM
There probably aren’t too many members of the youngest slice of the voting populace that would have seen the classic movie about Notre Dame‘s most prominent football coach, “Knute Rockne, All-American,” though many of them are probably familiar with it’s famous catchphrase. Towards the end of the movie, a dying Georg more...
By jwilkes - Friday, October 24th, 2008 at 11:59 PM
A recent comment by satirist David Sedaris made me ponder something about the election. Here’s what Sedaris had to say about undecided voters:
“I look at these people and can't quite believe that they exist. ‘Are they professional actors?’ I wonder. ‘Or are they simply laymen who want a lot of attention?’ To p more...
By jwilkes - Friday, October 24th, 2008 at 2:38 AM
If there is one particular talking point John McCain’s presidential campaign has hammered in the past 72 hours, it’s been Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden’s assertion that Barack Obama will likely be confronted with a serious international crisis in the first year of his administration. McCain argues that that poss more...
By jwilkes - Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008 at 12:33 PM
Regardless of how this election turns out, John McCain accomplished quite a feat in American partisan politics: he won the Republican Party’s nomination without the support of the Republican Party. And that’s been his problem all along.
Flash back to February, when McCain rose from the ashes of defeat in Iowa to capture victory in Ne more...
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