Sunday and Monday are the 161st Anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention, the first Women’s Rights Convention. As a refresher, here is a bit of history on that auspicious occasion:
The seed for the first Woman’s Rights Convention was planted in 1840, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton met Lucretia Mott at the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, [...]

It has taken the better part of a year, and specifically the last six months of this election season, for committed citizen journalists at NoQuarter and many other blogsites to do the research on Barack Obama that the media, the democratic national committee, and our Congress should have done.   Although our collective knowledge of Barack Obama [...]

Congratulations, Senator Obama.
And yet, we will all be watching. Very closely.
Will you make good on the promises that will make for a better life for all of us? (It’s difficult to pin down the specifics because there were so few of them.) We will be watching.

Over at my place Partizane, we have a discussion going on the polls and the internal polls.  Here is my cross post on what I feel is happening.
Obama was in my town of 25,000 yesterday begging for our lousy 4 electoral votes.
Tonight he’s having another Springsteen fund raiser in NYC because he needs dough.
This thing [...]

New York
New Jersey
Minnesota
Pennsylvania
Ohio

McCain-Palin
41
45
45
47
48

Obama-Biden
46
48
45
47
45

Barack Obama is not the “map changer” CNN and all the discredited Democratic blogs claimed he would be; he is a supercilious underachiever who promises to color the entire nation red, not blue. He is tied with McCain in Minnesota and Pennsylvania; he is trailing McCain in Ohio AND MICHIGAN; he is [...]

216 for McCain-Palin, 217 for Obama-Biden, 105 Toss Ups: Obama’s lead in the electoral college has officially eroded. Here is Survey USA’s report about the state of electoral affairs in Washington state:

Sarah Palin’s speech on Wednesday night might be the defining moment of the General Election. According to CBS’s new poll, Obama’s post-convention bounce has evaporated and the race is again tied. It’s likely that McCain will pull ahead with his own convention bounce. One of few sane netroots bloggers, Jerome Armstrong, sifting through the CBS [...]

So the other day, John Kerry helped celebrate The One’s birthday (oh wait -dadgummit – that has now been labeled “racist,” too!!!). OK – do over – Monday night, Senator Kerry helped Obamessiah celebrate his 47th birthday. Kerry said,
“I asked Barack Obama what he wanted for his birthday. He said, ‘Indiana, Colorado and Virginia,’ ” [...]

McCain Makes Significant Gains in Four Key Battleground States, Washington Post:
Republican John McCain has quickly closed the gap between himself and Democratic rival Sen. Barack Obama in several key battleground states even as the Arizona senator struggles to break through the wall-to-wall coverage of Obama’s trip to Europe and the Middle East this week.
McCain and [...]

Looking at all the polling data available on Obama versus McCain on Real Clear Politics website, 147 polls in all since November 2007, a very interesting pattern emerges. I pulled the data provided at that site into a spreadsheet, and within a few minutes, saw some things I did not expect to see.
When all [...]

No Quarter published two fascinating posts on Tuesday about the current state of the race between McCain and Obama. Taken together, these two pieces of analysis convey ominous news for Obama.
The first post, Obama’s Flawed Race Strategy: Why the Black Vote Won’t Be Enough by iam0nly1, argues convincingly that Obama’s weakness in the Rust Belt [...]

1) Over at the Guardian is an interesting two-part piece (part one here and part two here ) about how old, debunked and just plain vicious right-wing rumors and lies about HRC and BC are recycled by today’s “progressive wing” of the Democratic Party. Why this should be so is not explained (and is there [...]

The boost in the wake of the primaries about which Obama supporters have been gloating has evaporated.  According to Gallup’s three day tracking poll, Obama and McCain are now tied at 45%.
Obama also trails McCain in the important state Missouri by a margin of seven points in a poll Survey USA released today.  McCain has already consolidated [...]

Imv is my username, but you should know that I am a delegate for Sen. Hillary Clinton to August’s Democratic National Convention in Denver. I reside in “Red State America.”

The algorithms used by pollsters are beyond the vast majority of voters. Most people take polls at face value. WRONG.
Pollsters massage their numbers based [...]

According to a poll Rasmussen released today, McCain will beat Obama in Florida by at least a margin of eight points. I quote:
The Florida survey also found that McCain currently leads Obama in the state by a 47% to 39% margin. Six percent (6%) said they would vote for some other candidate while 8% [...]