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Monthly Archives: October 2008

Blink, Wink, Think, Sink

© Dan Wasserman

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Being John Maverick

From driftglass

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Crap Shoot

© Tom Toles

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Is Cindy McCain the Borg Queen?

From Totally Looks Like

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Mooselini

From BartCop

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US Electoral Maps before and after Great Depression

Wall Street and the stock market crashed in October 1929. What a difference an economic meltdown makes. In 1928 Herbert Hoover received 444 electoral votes, four years later he was only able to scrape up 59: Maps from 270 to Win

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McCain*Palin – because you can’t have Jesus without an apocalypse

From BartCop

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Winner takes all. Gulp.

© Marshall Ramsey

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I just don’t know if we can trust him

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Ad exposes the real Obama

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Wall Street is a one way street

© Jim Morin

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Barack Osama

This is the actual absentee ballot that was sent out to voters in New York State’s Rensselaer County. I’m not sure which is worse — believing the county election officials who claim that it was a simple typo that made it past three separate proof readers (are the ‘B’ and ‘S’ keys right next to each […]

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Graph of McCain’s polling numbers v. the S&P 500

As goes the economy, so goes McCain — down: From Arjun Modi From Steve Lombardo in Pollster.com: The past 14 days have transformed this election. The financial crisis has catapulted Obama into the lead both nationally and in key states. We have been saying for six months that the political environment has favored the Democrats […]

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Who says the banking crisis isn’t funny?

Following the problems in the sub-prime lending market in America and the run on HBOS in the UK, the financial crisis has now hit Japan. In the last 7 hours Origami Bank has folded, Sumo Bank has gone belly up and Bonsai Bank announced plans to cut some of its branches. Yesterday, it was announced […]

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McCain booed by his own supporters

At one of his town hall events, a woman in the audience said “I’ve heard that Senator Obama is an Arab.” To his credit, McCain cut the woman off and said “No, maam. He’s a decent family man and citizen that I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues.” My opinion of McCain […]

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