Casual Friday

According to Zogby.com, Virginia has moved from a toss-up state to Obama. This change now gives Obama, according to Zogby, 273 electoral votes, three more than is needed to win the presidency...If you have the Dish Network, check out channel 73. It's Obama's own personal channel. It started about two weeks ago. All Obama, all the time...Obama will spend over $110 million in October in key battleground states...Obama is also purchasing air time on NBC and CBS at 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, 29 October for 30 minutes. The networks have offered McCain the same deal though it is unlikely he can afford it...Joe Biden yesterday announced that he did not know many plummers who were hurting on $250K, an obvious reference to and crack at "Joe the Plummer" from Ohio...Last night, both John McCain and Barack Obama spoke at the annual Alfred E. Smith Charity dinner at the Astoria Hotel in New York for charity. It is 63 year tradition where presidential candidates come together to raise money for Catholic charities and poke fun at one another. McCain was absolutely hilarious and very complimentary of Obama. McCain even took a few shots at Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, and MSNBC. "McCain cracked", I hear Olbermann is getting his own "Mission Accomplished" banner (in support of Obama's campaign after 4 November). If he does not know what to to with it, I'd be happy to tell where he could put it". Hilarious! If McCain were only this loose and funny on the campaign trail. Smith, by the way, was a four term governor of New York, and the first Catholic to run for the presidency...When McCain looks back on this campaign should he lose, he can mark 15 September as the turning point. That's when he uttered the regretable phrase, "the fundamentals of the economy are strong"...AIG has taken $82.3 billion in emergency aid money...It asked for another $12 billion yesterday...Stocks were up 4.7% yesterday, which means there'll be down today about 5%. When will it end?...More and more states, including several key battleground states, are now looking very closely at their new voter registration logs as a result of rampant allegations of voter fraud as a result of ACORN's efforts to register new voters...Speaking of ACORN, they have received over $31 million from the federal government over the past few years.

There are 18 days until the presidential election. There are 94 days left in the Bush presidency. And, it's been 7 years, 1 month, and 6 days since there's been a terrorist attack on US soil. Good day and God bless!