Election

I stumbled across a great website that is everything you wanted to know about the Electoral College. (electoral-vote.com) Most interesting

In this month’s New Republic, Jonathan Chait follows the evolution of the “flip-flop” in this year’s presidential campaign. Analyzing 37 Kerry “flip-flops” listed on the Bush campaign website, Chait concludes only six are “legitimate reversals”

The most recent report from the Weapons inspector in Iraq takes away every excuse Bush has used for going to war there. Remember, the reasons have changed over time, each time they were discredited.

New job numbers are out this morning, and they’re more bad news for a president who has already received a truckload of it this week. The economy added about 96,000 new jobs in September. That’s fewer than analysts expected, fewer than what’s needed to keep up with population growth in the job market, and way fewer than what Bush’s own Council of Economic Advisors projected in December.

I read a good summary of the Vice Presidential debate on Salon.com. I agree that mainly Cheney managed to continue throwing out information he knows to be inaccurate, but Edwards seemed more concerned with making his talking points that responding to those false statements. Neither hurt each other’s campaign, but Edwards missed some chances to hit some home runs.