Motley Moose – Archive

For all of my optimism yesterday about the polls, the new RNC ads in West Virginia and Montana, and McCain’s decision to start robo-calling in Arizona…devastating news today. Barack Obama is losing the cat shit vote.

At the end of September, I speculated that the long anticipated October Surprise might be a surprise announcement from Sen. McCain that he would only serve one term in office.  Other bloggers obsessed over a non-existent “whitey” tape or about the possibility of a foreign policy move by the Bush administration or by one of our adversaries.

Today, the foundering McCain campaign may have played it’s final card.

I think that this is one of Obama’s best ads of the general election campaign.

This evening, Research 2000/Daily Kos released a poll that put Democrat Becky Greenwald within 5 points of Republican incumbent Rep. Tom Latham.

This shouldn’t be a shocker in a district where registered Democrats outnumber registered Republicans by 8694 voters (a nearly 15,000 voter swing from 2006, when Republicans outnumber Democrats).  This shouldn’t be a shocker in a district with a PVI of D+0.4.  But this is not a typical race.

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell endorsed Senator Barack Obama for president on Meet the Press this morning.

Former Secretary of State and Chairman of the Join Chiefs Colin Powell endorsed Senator Barack Obama for president on Meet the Press this morning.

On Tuesday, the DCCC announced that it was adding Becky Greenwald (IA-4) to its Red to Blue program. The Red to Blue program was created to provide financial and logistical support for Democrats in competitive races for Republican-held seats.

Last night, John McCain tried to tie his smear campaign against Barack Obama to comments made by Hillary Clinton during the Democratic primary campaign this spring.

“I don’t care about an old washed up terrorist, but as Senator (Hillary) Clinton said in her debates with you, we need to know the full extent of the relationship with you.”

I’m not going to parse, here.  That is a bold-faced lie.

This afternoon, the Supreme Court in Connecticut overturned the state’s ban on gay marriage in a 4-3 decision.

From Connecticut Supreme Court Chief Justice Richard Palmer:

We conclude that, in light of the history of pernicious discrimination faced by gay men and lesbians, and because the institution of marriage carries with it a status and significance that the newly created classification of civil unions does not embody, the segregation of heterosexual and homosexual couples into separate institutions constitutes a cognizable harm.

This is the remark that will have everybody talking today:

McCain made the remark tonight when discussing a 2005 Senate vote on an energy bill. “There was an energy bill on the floor of the Senate loaded down with goodies, billions for the oil companies, and it was sponsored by Bush and Cheney. You know who voted for it? You might never know. That one,” he said, pointing to Obama. “You know who voted against it? Me.”