Today John McCain chose first term governor of Alaska Sarah Palin as his running mate. Much like Barack Obama, John McCain had a glaring weakness that he needed to address, but unlike Obama I am not sure he did it. Barack Obama’s biggest weakness was his lack of experience and foreign policy. Joe Biden, although he comes with a

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During a slow week during the Democratic convention, there wasn't a whole lot of polling work being done out in the field. Rasmussen, which is the largest provider of polling data this cycle, took the week off, but CNN filled the void with four polls in swing states. Overall there were eight polls in eight states. And despite

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This whole “controversy” over Sarah Palin’s pregnant teenage daughter gives us an opening to take a look at the difference of opinion between her and Barack Obama on the issue of abortion. It comes as no surprise that these two people differ on this issue but this an an opportunity to take a closer look at it.

This is what

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Ahead of John McCain, Governor Sarah Palin makes her speech to the RNC and delivers blow after blow to Democrat nominee Barack Obama. Read our review and see the acceptance speech video in full. Govenor Palin spoke for 40 minutes, introduced herself, her family and delivered her credentials and lays down the difference between

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Why go after Obama on his experience as a community organizer? Why go against what, on its face, is your best interest? Yes, it fires up the Republican partisans, but it also fired Democrats up as well. But the question is, "How did it play among the independents and undecideds?" Here's where we start to answer the why of th

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I was one of those people who when John McCain picked Sarah Palin as his running mate asked, WHO? I knew John McCain was going to screw this pick up and his choice of Palin confirmed it for me. But then I saw how quickly the media, the far left bloggers, and even more mainstream Democrats began to attack her mercilessly. The bl

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It is one thing to answer the "convention bounce" question with national polls, but I've always been inclined to discover how this is working out on the state level. Is that national bounce that we've witnessed for McCain uniformly distributed across all states, or is it the case that McCain/Palin just fired up partisans in

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I have been a registered Republican since I was 18 years old and I guess that I still haven’t learned all of the Republican code words yet. I am going to have to dig around in my closet for the code book and do a little studying.

Evidently if a Republican uses the term “community organizer” it is a code word for “black.” So

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Obama has gathered a bunch of people that have worked with the Alaska Governor and are telling the truth about her record. The ex Governor (whom she beat in the election), the Mayor of Ketchikan (part of the bridge to nowhere) and others whom I'm sure have no agenda against the Alaska Governor at all.

Obama must be really

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With new polling we see the continuation of the post-convention trends into which we have settled...for the most part. Most importantly though, we see the list of battleground states continue to contract. First, Alaska, then Montana and now North Dakota slipped out of the toss up McCain category and into a safer, and more tradi

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This is a mistake and it does not help the cause of Pit Bulls whose reputation are in tatters not of their own doing but mans undoing in transforming man's best friend as vicious killer. Was it the intent of the Republican to portray Sarah Palin as a vicious Pitt Bull with a twist for wearing a lipstick? Kind of catchy except

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First it was Bear Stearns and JP Morgan, then Bristol Palin and Levi. Now it's Bank of America and Merrill Lynch. I hope these mergers are just a blip on the radar, not a growing trend.

There was a time when banks were separated from investment banks, until Phil Gramm changed it all by removing that barrier, which kept us s

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If you're like me, you've been waiting on the next big thing in this presidential campaign: the debates. Well, we're a little over a week away from the first debate between John McCain and Barack Obama on Friday, September 26. If you want a look back at debates past, PBS has an updated version of their documentary, Debating

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If you want to see Obama in the White House, you will have to stop spending more time covering Wasilia’s Main Street than Wall Street, stop the redicioulous debate over the difference of putting a plane on ebay vs. actually selling it on ebay, and stop debating the timetable of when Palin decided to be against the Bridge to Now

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With a bevy of new shows and returning favorites, I’d have to say SNL is really something I look forward to. Aside from the gags, the skits and the musical guests, what really gets me rolling on the floor, hysterically laughing are the political impersonations.

Add that to the fact that they satirize my current favorite rea

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