Josh Marshall

Extreme CDS

As someone who declared war on Larry Summers when he was President of Harvard, I feel comfortable asking Josh Marshall this question - what in the hell are you talking about when you write this? Just at the level of optics,...

Dan Kennedy: Today is a day beyond politics

Throughout the presidential campaign, Barack Obama was careful not to lean too heavily on the obvious symbolism of his candidacy. He used his status as the first African-American with a serious chance of winning to his...

The world feels like a much better place today

Notes from last night...What a poignant, beautiful victory speech by Obama. What McCain said about Palin in his concession: I am also — I am also, of course, very thankful to Governor Sarah Palin, one of the best campaigners...

Elsewhere: Early Exit Polls, Major Cuts From Bloomberg

Preliminary exit poll data reports that "[c]hange voters made up 35% of the electorate; 30% wanted someone who shared their values. " Josh Marshall reminds: early exit polling was wildly off in 2004. Early voting will impact...

Blogwatch: Crazytime

Ohio goes for Obama. People lose their minds: Mark Halperin on The Page: THE NETWORKS WON’T TELL YOU BUT THE PAGE WILL: BARACK OBAMA WILL BE THE 44TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. Nate Silver, on Fivethirtyeight.com: "!"...

Bloggers get feisty in the wait for election results

While Election Day involves a good deal of waiting for results, bloggers won't be kept silent until the polls close. Partisan Web sites on the left and the right kept busy today documenting and rebuffing allegations of...

Online Political Ads Cause a Stir

Shira Ovide reports on the media and Election Day. When it comes to ads, even the most partisan Web sites are strictly business. Some readers of influential and typically left-leaning blog TalkingPointsMemo were surprised to...

Today is the day

Oh man. Nervous with crossed fingers, knocking on wood. Less than 24 hours and this should be over. Fivethirtyeight.com. says there's a 98.1% chance Obama will win tonight. But at least in this household we're nervously biting...

Stay Classy Josh Marshall

Josh Marshall has a post insinuating that Joe the Plumber is some kind of neo-nazi. I mean, how dare a guy like Joe the Plumber campaign for John McCain. And if that isn't enough, how dare a guy like Joe the Plumber have honest...

and the smears roll on

The latest is good. Associated Press picks up from Murdoch's Times of London a story about some aunt of Barack Obama's name of Zeituni Onyango apparnelty living illegally in Boston. Ooh, black Africans in America illegally!...