Sarah Palin: I've Got God On My Side, Bloggers Sit In Basements Wearing Pajamas

Failed Republican Vice Presidential candidate and Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin told Fox News that she is confident God would show the way to the White House one day.

The scarily stupid and mildly hot 44-year-old Alaskan Governor also told the right wing network that she spent part of her weekend sorting thought the $150,000 worth of clothes bought for her failed campaign during September and October this year. Palin said during the Presidential election that she would return all of the clothes the RNC purchased for her after the election.

The Republican also had mean things to say about bloggers who wrote stinging criticism of her during the campaign,. Sarah Palin claimed that they spend all their time "sitting in their parents' basement, wearing their pajamas."

Via: Huffington Post.

Epic Fail? John McCain Could Lose Arizona.

It would be one of the most Epic Fails in the modern history of US Politics. John McCain is only just hanging on to his home state of Arizona, despite representing the western state for many years as Congressman and Senator.

If Obama is this close to beating McCain in Arizona....Well, you draw the conclusions on "That One."

Rasmussen Polling:
Election 2008: Arizona Presidential Election
McCain 51%, Obama 46% in Arizona

John McCain’s lead over Barack Obama is down to just five points in his home state of Arizona. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the state finds the Senator leading 51% to 46%.
McCain is viewed favorably by 59% of voters in Arizona and unfavorably by 40%. Obama’s ratings are 49% favorable, 50% unfavorable.
Voters in Arizona trust their state’s Senator more than Obama on the top issue of the economy by a 52% to 44% margin. However, voters not affiliated with either party trust Obama more, 52% to 39%.

8 Days to Go: Obama Up In Normally Republican Virginia, North Carolina, Surging in Ohio

A Reuters/Zogby poll ( slightly slanted Republican due to an allocation of party affiliation the same as 2004 when George Bush and the Republcan party were far more popular) has Barack Obama looking strong in the normally reliable red states of Virginia and North Carolina. They also show him surging in Ohio, but Flordia is likely going to come down to the wire.

Reuters/Zogby telephone surveys of eight battleground states show Democrat Barack Obama ahead in six. While his lead over Republican John McCain is less than three points in Florida, Missouri and North Carolina, these results still point out the daunting task McCain faces to reach the 270 Electoral College votes needed for election

With Barack Obama only needing to hold onto the states John Kerry won in 2004, plus the now strongly blue stats of New Mexico and Iowa (states that only went to Bush in '04 by a few thousand), a win in either Colorado, Virginia, Florida or Ohio would see Obama become next President.

Ohio
Reuters/Zogby
Obama 50, McCain 45
Obama +5

Florida
Reuters/Zogby
Obama 47, McCain 47
Tie

North Carolina
Reuters/Zogby
Obama 50, McCain 46
Obama +4

Virginia
Reuters/Zogby
Obama 52, McCain 45
Obama +7

Missouri
Reuters/Zogby
Obama 48, McCain 46
Obama +2

Nevada
Reuters/Zogby
Obama 48, McCain 44
Obama +4
Indiana

Reuters/Zogby
McCain 50, Obama 44
McCain +6

West Virginia
Reuters/Zogby
McCain 50, Obama 40
McCain +10

Virginia
ABC News/Wash Post
Obama 52, McCain 44
Obama +8

Sarah Palin Corrupt Alaskan Gas Pipeline Deal

Alaska has a history as being a state awash with political and financial corruption, Republican VP runner and Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin is in the thick of it.

Sarah Palin could soon find herself in the middle of another damaging scandal, this time involving the apparent deliberate favouring of a contractor, TransCanda corp, in a multi-billion dollar gas pipeline from the Governors state to the lower 48.

Among the findings, the investigation found that Sarah Palin broke rules which legally bound her not to speak directly to any potential bidders. It also found that the leader of the Alaskan state bid had lobbied for the winning bidder in the past. The terms of bidding for the pipeline contract was also found to be anti-competitive, the winning company was granted subsidies by the State of Alaska despite the bid terms originally not requiring such a intervention by the Governor of Alaska.

More of the report from AP:

Despite Palin's boast of a smart and fair bidding process, the AP found that her team crafted terms that favored only a few independent pipeline companies and ultimately benefited the winner, TransCanada Corp.

In interviews and a review of records, the AP found:

_Instead of creating a process that would attract many potential builders, Palin slanted the terms away from an important group _ the global energy giants that own the rights to the gas.

Despite promises and legal guidance not to talk directly with potential bidders, Palin had meetings or phone calls with nearly every major candidate, including TransCanada.

_The leader of Palin's pipeline team had been a partner at a lobbying firm where she worked on behalf of a TransCanada subsidiary. Also, that woman's former business partner at the lobbying firm was TransCanada's lead private lobbyist on the pipeline deal, interacting with legislators in the weeks before the vote to grant TransCanada the contract. Plus, a former TransCanada executive served as an outside consultant to Palin's pipeline team.

_Under a different set of rules four years earlier, TransCanada had offered to build the pipeline without a state subsidy; under Palin, the company could receive a maximum $500 million.

Saturday 2008 President Polls: Obama Strong Nationally, Big Lead in Colorado, Pennsylvania, Close in Ohio Despite Economy

Saturday, Midday October 25
Poll
Results from realclearpolitics.com

National
Rasmussen Reports
Obama 52, McCain 44
Obama +8

National
Hotline/FD
Obama 50, McCain 43
Obama +7

National
Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby
Obama 51, McCain 42
Obama +9

Colorado
Rocky Mtn News/CBS4
Obama 52, McCain 40
Obama +12

Pennsylvania
Morning Call
Obama 52, McCain 41
Obama +11

Ohio
Ohio Newspaper Poll
Obama 49, McCain 46
Obama +3

The "Palin Insurgency"?

Politico.com's Ben Smith talks about the apparent unesyness between John McCain and Sarah Palin in the McCain-Palin 2008 camp.

Four Republicans close to Palin said she has decided increasingly to disregard the advice of the former Bush aides tasked to handle her, creating occasionally tense situations as she travels the country with them. Those Palin supporters, inside the campaign and out, said Palin blames her handlers for a botched rollout and a tarnished public image -- even as others in McCain's camp blame the pick of the relatively inexperienced Alaska governor, and her public performance, for McCain's decline.

Obama Goes Nuts With TV Ads in October.

Barack Obama is really opening up a can of whoop ass on American TV with the Obama-Biden 2008 campaign spending "more than half of what Sen. John F. Kerry spent on television commercials for the entire 2004 presidential campaign" in the first 2 weeks of the month of October alone.

The Washington Post Reports:

The burst of spending came on the heels of Obama's record month of fundraising and has, in some key markets, enabled the presidential nominee to broadcast as many as seven commercials for every one aired by Republican Sen. John McCain.

"It's beyond saturation," said Evan Tracey, a media analyst.
The overall differences in the way each campaign spent money during the critical first weeks of October are stark.

The reports filed with the Federal Election Commission late Thursday show that Obama and the Democratic Party committees that are supporting his effort spent nearly $105 million from Oct. 1 to Oct. 15. McCain and Republican Party entities, by contrast, spent just over $25 million

Obama Headed for Mass Victory?

Charlie Cook wonders:

Barack Obama's presidential campaign appears headed for the upper deck. Polls (both national and state-by-state), organization, money, and momentum are all running strongly in Obama's favor.

At this point, one wonders whether Obama's winning margin could be greater than Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton's 5.6-point win over President George H.W. Bush in 1992, more than Bush's 7.7-point win over Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis in 1988, or more than Clinton's 8.5-point win over Sen. Bob Dole in 1996.

Even higher on the landslide roster is California Gov. Ronald Reagan's 9.7-point victory over President Carter in 1980 and Gen. Dwight Eisenhower's 10.9-point win over Adlai Stevenson in 1952.