and for Congress. Then we'll see who really knows what they're talking about =)

I'm feeling pretty good about the Dems chances. I don't see McCain on the attack, I see his campaign having to put out fires all over the place with Palin's record after his apparently impetuous pick.

When you look at the state-by-state polling Obama seems to be on solid ground. I don't necessarily advocate electoral-vote.com as being super accurate but their current map shows that McCain is in big trouble -- he can win Ohio and Florida and still lose easily. (FWIW, 538 also has Obama winning handily.)

That said I have no audio at work so I'll have to wait to watch the video to comment further.

I've written before about Barack Obama's ties to the far, far
left.

In 1996, he sought the New Party endorsement. The New
Party has, by 1996, become the party of Communists and other
radicals. It was, for all intents and purposes, an amalgamation of
CCC, CPUSA, Green, and Social-Democrat parties.

As I noted then

By 1996, the New Party had solidified its ties with ACORN,
unions, and the left so much so that even the New York Times
referred to it as “leftist.” Manning Marable, writing in the
left-wing New York Beacon, on October 23, 1996, wrote that “there
are four key components in this strategy for progressive political
change.” Among those components were civil disobedience and
“support for independent movements like the New Party which are
running candidates in local races. More importantly an innovative
approach to electoralism is represented by ACORN’s ‘living wage’
referenda campaigns.” . . . .

In These Times reported on February 17, 1997, that “the [New]
[P]arty, with 80 members in the [17th] ward, many of whom are also
active in the Service Employees International Union and the
advocacy group ACORN, has begun to build a parallel precinct
organization.”

A New Party member, writing in the Chicago Democratic Socialists
of America newsletter in 1996, described the New Party as mostly
made up of ACORN members. The member, Bob Roman, wrote, "As the
single 800 pound gorilla in the Chicago New Party, it doesn't leave
a lot of room for newcomers to participate except on ACORN's
terms." Obama, if you will remember, worked for ACORN and in 1996,
ACORN was not organizing the community, they were getting people
out to vote for Barack Obama.

It should come as no surprise then, this morning, to read this :

The latest matter involves Mr. Obama's presidential campaign
paying more than $800,000 to an offshoot of the scandal-ridden,
leftist Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
(ACORN) for services the campaign now says it mistakenly
misrepresented in federal reports.

The ACORN subsidiary, Citizens Services Inc., did
"get-out-the-vote" work instead of the polling, advance work and
major event staging the Obama campaign had first stated in its
Federal Election Commission finance report during the primary

Yet again, ACORN rallies for Obama.

The man is a leftist radical with a messiah complex. If you
still want to vote for him, go right ahead, but just know who you
are dealing with.

From: Erick Erickson

'Meanwhile, our economy continues to crumble, while crime, homelessness and poverty continue to soar.'

Huh?

'Despite the fact that thousands of immigrants risk their safety to come here because this country may offer them better opportunities, the truth is that poverty lives right here in our own backyard.'

...Ppfff...What?

"Plenty of Americans would rather stay in their dream state than to recognize the poverty sweeping across the country, right here, right now."

Oh brother...