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Old people shoot Crown Royal. Young people shoot three-pointers. Myself, I enjoy a mean game of catch and a microbrew; maybe I’m becoming a “moderate.”

For all her “experience,” Hillary Clinton’s campaign was a mess of infighting, backstabbing, and overlapping egos. Meanwhile, Obama’s is, in Josh Green’s words, “admired by insiders of both parties for its functional beauty—not just admired but gawked at, like some futuristic concept car leaking rocket vapor at an auto show.”
Marc Ambinder lays out the [...]

If you want the blow-by-blow of how Obama’s team pulled of one of the greatest political upsets in recent history read this WaPo story. Obviously something like this is going to look like genius in retrospect, but it’s still striking how well they played the game.

Because this is when things just get silly*:
It’s expected to bring some 60,000 people to Louisville and some prominent political figures, including presidential candidate John McCain.
The NRA convention starts Friday at the Kentucky Exposition Center.
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The south wing was bustling with activity Thursday, the day before the National Rifle Association Convention opens in Louisville. [...]

Time was, John Edwards perseverated about two Americas. No longer:
John Edwards gave his long-awaited endorsement to Senator Barack Obama on Wednesday, bolstering Mr. Obama’s efforts to rally the Democratic Party around his candidacy and offering potential help in his efforts to win over working class white voters in the general election.
“The Democratic voters in [...]

Obama detractors on Left and Right have both taken pains to paint him as a closet Muslim. The willing mix up of “Obama” with “Osama” is just the most egregious example of a pattern that’s emerged over and over in this campaign - point out Obama’s differences in an effort to marginalize him and [...]

Longtime reader Nihilist Easter Bunny wrote in with his own reinterpretation of Hillary Clinton’s comments about the strength of her white support:
White men! White women! Clinton is calling you! The Muslim is using the black as muscle against you. And you are left there helpless. Well, what are you going to do about it, whitey? [...]

Apocalypse Tom owns a 2004 Subaru Impreza WRX, an all wheel drive pseudo sports car that goes faster than Tom reasonably needs to drive and allows him to go over Snoqualmie Pass in winter weather that keeps everyone except chained-up semis and Tom at home.
The WRX has a 15.9 gallon gas tank, and requires [...]

Early returns from PA are in: Obama takes Philly, Hillary rocks it in squirrel-hunting country.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the continued political support of the “heartland” in terms of subsidies and trite mythologizing creates the seed for the kulturkampf and the root of everything that’s broken in modern America.
(I mainly just [...]

Because I’m loving the 50 State Strategy this year, and because I think this encapsulates what I think of Democrats hunkering down and trying to hold their safe states and seats*:
I don’t want to get any messages saying that “we are holding our position.” We’re not holding anything. Let the Republicans do that. We are [...]