Category Archives: Politics: US: 2008 Elections

This commercial for Tom Udall (NM Senate candidate) has to be near the top of the 'best' list for this cycle.

But I think it's beat by this anti-Palin commercial called Choice?

Please feel free to nominate other contenders in the comments.

The Booman Tribune points to this Al Jazeera news report finding hate and fear in Ohio.

Gonna be a rough (almost) three weeks…

Bruce Schneier, New Chip-and-Pin Scam in the UK:

The readers were hacked when they were were built, “either during the manufacturing process at a factory in China, or shortly after they came off the production line.” It's being called a “supply chain hack.”

Sophisticated stuff, and yet another demonstration that these all-computer security systems are full of risks.

BTW, what's it worth to rig an election?

It's good when your side's views infiltrate pop culture. Here's a snippet from this week's “Screen Gems” column in the Miami Herald.

Coming this week on TV and at the movies, Toughest Race on Earth: Iditarod (10 p.m. Tuesday, Discovery) — I know, I know, who cares about some dog race in Alaska? Until Sarah Palin is vice president, and then the dog-racing police will come to your house and if you don't know the right answers they'll stick a cattle prod up your … Oh, sorry, I was channeling Keith Olbermann there for a second. Never mind, he's gone now.

Stories with good news like 538.com's On the Road: St. Louis County, Missouri make me nervous.

Still, imagine what they do to the McCain campaign.

In many states, early voting begins this week or next. Meanwhile, Homer Simpson tries to vote for Obama. You have been warned.

(Thanks to MW)