If you were watching MSNBC as I was this afternoon, you heard a McCain supporter scream "a terrorist!" when McCain asked the questions, "Who is Obama?"

re-posted from Daily Kos We all know 'that guy'; the one that has Rush Limbaugh playing 24/7 at his desk at work and swears that Bush never lied - not even once. On a recent trip back to my office, I overheard him explaining why the financial crisis happened: Carter, Clinton, Janet Reno (for real), and above all else: MINORITIES.

When Sarah Palin went to Omaha last night, she said that she very much enjoyed her trip to the Heartland. Well, she must be enjoying her red state visit a lot, because, according to the ]Politicohttp://www.politico.com/news/stories/100 8/14304.html], she is heading there this week.

http://www.amazon.com/Hell-Politics-Tril lion-Savings-Scandal/dp/0393029824

http://www.amazon.com/Best-Way-Rob-Bank- Own/dp/0292706383

Personally, I can dig the time travel aspect, but I think the McCain camp is heading for the wrong era if it wants to take the voting public on an excursion through history?

The following is my update of the races that will be contested next month in the state of Oregon.  My projections will be updated probably one more time shortly before election day.  I do not work for any campaign and my projections are my own.

Cross-Posted from Loaded Orygun: http://loadedorygun.net/showDiary.do?dia ryId=1395

Ladies and Gentlemen, PUSH THIS EVERY WHERE.

because this is what the McCain campaign just said.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/110974/Gallup -Daily-Obama-Leads-50-42.aspx

That makes today's average 8.75, by my reckoning.  Even with DK's numbers tossed out, this looks like a remarkebly consistent pattern - Obama creeping up ever so slowly towards double-digits.  His job now is to project calm, steady and likable in the last two debates, as they're probably the last real obstacles to his winning.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/100 8/14280.html

My take on the above link at Politico.com:

60 - it is just a number, but it is an important one.

If the Democrats can get 60 members in the Senate, they can disallow filibustering, and allow progressive legislation to follow a much quicker route through the Senate.

Consider this - for all of Obama's intelligence, charisma, and drive, he needs legislators who are willing to live up to the challenges we face: ending the war in Iraq, fixing the economy, ramping up production of renewable energy. The laundry-list goes on and on.

That will not happen if the Republicans can filibuster bills to death in the Senate. And they will. The Republican Party has been hijacked by such a messianic movement that passage of legislation that they do not author is not only bad policy, but an affront to America in general.

They will stop and nothing to thwart an Obama administration's progressive agenda.

Per Politico: VA, NM, CO, AK, NH, OR, NC, MN, KY, MS & GA are all either going to go to the Democrats or states were Republican numbers are falling, and the races are becoming competitive.