Someone has some awesome editing skills.

My friend Jake just sent me this image from his phone. He took it about an hour ago in Henrietta while out for lunch. It’s a bit difficult to read, but that’s a fake dead arm coming out the back of that truck’s tailgate and it has “Obama” written on it.

Some people…

Check out the tag cloud on this site (on the right side of the page):

http://www.roytanck.com/

Her face annoys me.

John McCain is putting all of his chips on Pennsylvania.

Consider that for a moment.  It displays, in plain sight, how far ahead we are right now.  Pennsylvania has not gone red in the past two decades, and here’s how the Pollster.com average looks right now:

That’s pretty steep.  So what the hell is John McCain thinking?  Well, he’s thinking this:

“There’s a tendency in Pennsylvania for the polls to change dramatically in the final days,” says John Brabender, a top Republican political consultant based in Pittsburgh. “In the governor’s race in 2002, there were polls just a few days out showing [Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell] with a 25-point lead and he ended up losing 50 of 67 counties and won by nine points.”

So it’s a combination of thinking the polls are wrong, and banking on some late movement for McCain, and if it were any other state, I would scoff and tell them to keep dreaming.  But there’s two things that bother me about Pennsylvania.  The first is the Bradley effect.  Now I know the Nate Silver has written over, and over, and over again about this, but I always felt that if the Bradley effect were to still exist, it would show up in either Michigan or Pennsylvania.  So that’s that.

The other is that Pennsylvania is critical for Obama’s electoral math.  The path of least resistance to 270 for Obama was always Kerry states + NM + IA + CO/VA.  Losing Pennsylvania throws a giant wrench into all of that, by dropping out a very critical 21 EVs.  Obama would then need to pick up either OH, FL, NV+VA, or NV+NC.  Now, none of these are impossible, or even improbable, but it definitely makes things more difficult when you have to win NM, IA, CO, NV, and VA all on the same night.

Basically what I’m trying to say is, we cannot lose Pennsylvania; therefore, we must not get complacent, especially when the competition is moving into a full court press.  I urge all of you that are close to PA to make a trip.  Remember how fun it was last time?

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From my very own home state:

The Arizona Democratic Party is demanding that Ryan Anderson, deputy campaign manager for U.S. Rep. John Shadegg (R-Phoenix), be fired, after they say he gave false information on a contribution form when he visited Democratic Party headquarters to buy an Obama bumper sticker.

Democrats believe Anderson was responsible for leaving a Shadegg campaign credit card at Democratic Party headquarters, which was discovered Monday. A police report was filed and the Shadegg campaign was notified, but the mystery of how it got there remained. The Arizona Democratic Party thinks it has found the answer.

The Shadegg campaign’s original story was this:

Sean Noble, Shadegg’s campaign manager, said the card was given to campaign volunteer Ryan Anderson, who was using it to buy office supplies. He is not a senior campaign official, spokeswoman Abby Winter said.

Anderson, who described himself as a collector of political memorabilia, said he stopped by “just to see what was going on.”

He said that he asked for an Obama bumper sticker and that in paying for it “the card must have slipped out of my pocket.”

And he might have got away with it, if it weren’t for those meddling Democrats:

“Records show that a person with the name ‘Bryan Anderson’ filled out a contribution form, which is a legal document that the Arizona Democratic Party uses to report contributions to elections officials,” read a release from the Arizona Democratic Party. “‘Bryan Anderson’s’ address is a near-match to Ryan Anderson’s. Every number in the street line of the address is one digit off.”

Really, dude?  Bryan Anderson?  Man, they’d never figure that out.  Probably should have gone with Ayan Rnderson.  Or maybe Nayr Nosredna.  Wait!  Let me get my decoder ring!

Unbelievable.

On Fox News, no less…

(In case you haven’t seen the original, here)

As an avid RSS feed reader reader/podcast subscriber, I decided that I would try and come up with a new blog or podcast every week to share with Juice The Blog. Hopefully I will do this more than once. I know it says weekly, but I’m also a total slacker.

For those of you unfamiliar with podcasts and subscribing to podcasts, here is a really old but still relevant tutorial from your friends at Apple: http://www.apple.com/support/ilife/tutorials/itunes/it5-1.html

First up here at Eric’s Weekly (or Close to Weekly) Blog/Podcast Review (or EW(oCtW)B/PR, for short) is a longtime favorite and staple for hipster podcast listeners, This American Life. Every week, This American Life comes up with a theme and brings you a number of different stories on that theme. It is sort of like documentary radio, with interviews, narration, and some sound design. The stories are about everything from politics, to breakups, to get rich quick schemes, but usually focus on the human interest stories of the people involved.

This American Life is hosted by cool-guy Ira Glass.

More like Ira GlassES, am I right? Anyways, he’s a cool dude with a kindof annoying voice. I don’t really mind it, but you’ll know what I mean. Here’s a really cool video of him talking about taste and making good stuff:

You can listen to This American Life via the iTunes store or from their website. So yeah, do it up and tell me what you think in the comments. Until next week…

UPDATE: Awesome episode about the economic crisis that you should probably listen to: http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1263

This song is awesome. The video is awesomer.

Love how he calls out McCain’s campaigning…

Rep. Michelle McCarthy Bachmann (R-MN) calls for a “penetrating exposé” on who is and is not anti-American.

Let’s just bring HUAC back.  That worked out well last time.