December 2, 2008 8:33:46 PM CST
(Newser) – In the space of just 10 days, many Democrats have decided that Barack Obama's once sure-fire candidacy is now doomed. Gail Collins has some advice for them: stop hyperventilating. If Team Obama seems as cool as always, says the New York Times columnist, it's because "they don’t care about national polls—a concept as quaint as measuring one’s wealth by caribou pelts."
Sarah Palin is dominating the news, though that's probably because she's "got that frontier aura that we’ve missed since all the cowboy television series were canceled a generation ago." Her advice to panicking Dems is to "just chill for a few weeks." Even if it seems like the election is soon, it's actually months away: "Time only seems short because these people have already been running for a year."
Source New York Times
2 hours, 11 minutes ago Douglas Kmiec’s possible appointment by Barack Obama as ambassador to the Vatican shouldn’t raise any hackles and—pro-lifers' views to the contrary—would not be an insult to the church, Henry Farrell writes on Crooked Timber. “Kmiec continues to state his opposition to abortion,” Farrell writes. He supported pro-choice Obama for the express purpose of curbing abortions, because he considered the president-elect a better choice than McCain. More »
14 hours, 11 minutes ago Georgia decides its Senate race today and both sides are going all-out to secure a victory that could help determine the direction of the next Congress, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. The GOP has sent in Sarah Palin to stump for incumbent Sen. Saxby Chambliss, while Democratic challenger Jim Martin held a final rally in Atlanta joined by hip-hop stars and a civil rights leader. More »
Dec 1, 08 1:24 PM CST A New York supporter of Barack Obama has vanity plates bearing his candidate’s name, but dares not use them, the Post reports. The man, who got the plates during the primaries, has caught thieves trying to pry them off his car. “Those plates will probably, at some point, become a collector's item—in someone else's house,” he said. He now carries them inside his vehicle. More »
Nov 25, 08 2:24 PM CST Sarah Palin will lend her star power to Saxby Chambliss in his Senate runoff battle against Democrat Jim Martin, Politico reports. Palin will appear with Chambliss at rallies across Georgia the day before the Dec. 2 runoff, capping a GOP full-court press that has seen Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney and John McCain drop by to try to keep Chambliss’ seat in Republican hands. More »
Nov 24, 08 9:12 PM CST The little guy didn't fill Barack Obama's campaign coffers after all, a new non-partisan study says. True, almost 50% of his donations were $200 or less, but many of those donors gave again. Only about a quarter of them stopped at two C-notes, a figure in the same range as donations to John McCain. About 80% of Obama's money came from people who gave more than $1,000, the New York Times reports. More »
Hillary now lives in a golden alternative universe.... If she had not been in the race, the Democrats would probably be bemoaning the fact that they hadn’t stuck with Edwards and nailed down the critical swing-state philanderer vote. - Gail Collins, New York Times columnist
If you live in California or New York or Texas, you don’t really have much of a feel for their level of effort because as far as they’re concerned, you’ve already voted. - Gail Collins, New York Times columnist, on Obama's strategists
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