I’m gonna take a quick two seconds to pull a Colbert and say “Called It!”.
Called It!
Cue the balloon drop.
Back at the beginning of October, our panel predicted how the electoral map would wind up. With Missouri leaning McCain and North Carolina a light shade of Obama, I can safely say I was off by just …

I live in Illinois - Chicago, specifically.  Other than college, I have lived here my entire life.  I used to work at the Chicago Urban League, during which time I met a young community organizer named Barack Obama, and worked with him for about a minute on some school reform shit.  That was like 15 …

Man, oh, man!  Fox-TV is up in arms on a quarter-hour basis today.  Every 15 minutes, according to Fox, there is a new assault on God and Country, a la Barack Obama and the Socialists.  The crime du quarter hour is that 2 guys were standing outside a polling place in Philly, intimidating people for …

NYTIMES has a nifty media toy where you can enter the word that best describes your current mood and follow the most popular choices from readers. For CHANGE OBAMA peeps:

and McPain peeps:

Why so dyspeptic, my friends? From the looks of it both supporters will be on the edge of their respective seats in anticipation. I can only hope that the …

Unbelievable. Exactly two years ago, SurveyUSA completed interviews with 600 voters in every state (30,000 total interviews), asking them how they would vote in a 2008 Presidential Election between John McCain and Barack Obama.
Based on those interviews, SurveyUSA was able to report that:
In November 2006, Obama carried … 

His home state of Illinois.
His birth state of …

A boy named Hope tried to tear down a McCain sign of intolerance and hate, but was shocked when a Shawn Turschak of Chapel Hill hooked up the sign to a power source for an electric pet fence Monday–he put up a surveillance camera, too!
Said the boy, Hope, “I’ll take electrocution any day over a Palin-McCain presidency.”

Elizabeth Dole, (Fossil-North Carolina), behind in the polls, has decided to channel Ralph Reed in a last-gasp effort to reverse her electoral fate.  Maybe it will work.  I ain’t from North Carolina (proudly), so I have no idea.
Senator Liddy – or is it Libby??? – Dole is airing a TV ad in which she uses …

It is six days out from Election Day, and time for the candidates to give us, the electoral jury, their closing arguments, the reasons that they feel we should vote for them.  And here they are:
McCain campaign:  Obama is a Socialist/Commie-Pinko/Muslim, Israel-killing, vote-fraud-inciting, terrorist-befriending, Unreal-American threat.
Obama campaign:  Americans should drop their divisions and come together, …

I have long wondered where the McCain campaign gets its inside track on deep-trench shit digging equipment, and now I know:  Joe the Plumber.  Today, Joe the Plumber, while officially stumping on the McCain campaign trail, stated that a vote for Obama is a vote for the death of Israel. 
The McCain campaign’s initial reaction was …

As chronic FP readers will recall – and for those of you who are chronic FP readers, Bravo/a! – I wrote a post last week about how badly McCain missed the mark on what it would take – strategically – to win this election. That strategy should have been, win the Independents.
In the final couple …

After stabbing national Democrats in the back with his staunchly pro-Bush, pro-Neo-Con run up to the war in Iraq, followed by his stabbing Connecticut Democrats in the back when, after losing his primary bid for re-election, he ran as an “Independent Democrat” and won, then returning to more back-stabbing of national Democrats with his attached-at-the-side …

So hang me. I deserve it. But before you do, let me state my case.
I think that President Obama (God I hope it’s President Obama) should take a big-ass page out of Dwight David Eisenhower’s Presidency. No, I am not referring to re-staging WWII. If you want that, then vote for McCain. I am …