Candidates as Cabbage Patch kids

Something tells me the John McCain Cabbage Patch kid will be heavily discounted after tonight, but Palin will be hot for a while longer.
Obama, of course, will be on every kid’s Christmas list this year.

What to watch for on the big night

Nate Silver has your hour-by-hour guide to election night.

Partying like it’s 1929

McCain’s holding his big election night party at a swanky resort built in 1929 during the Hoover administration.  How… fitting?  And also a perfect example of the disastrous campaign decisions he’s made.

Did McCain ever have a chance?

Ross Douthat, on why McCain’s campaign advisors actually are to blame for McCain’s (predicted) loss this year, and not just the victims of an inevitable Democratic landslide:
Maybe I should insert a caveat here, something along the lines of “if McCain wins on Tuesday, Schmidt and Co. are geniuses after all.” But the only way McCain [...]

From a McCain rally in Ohio…

Ana Marie Cox reports:
After first boasting that he wanted to “beef up” Sen. Barack Obama’s “skinny legs,” perhaps by “doing some squats,” he opined that McCain had been in a Vietnam camp for longer than Obama has been in the Senate.*
This is, of course, true, but one imagines that the various tenures make use of [...]

Social networking as campaign advertising

The McCain campaign is giving away McCain buttons on Facebook:

New Gift: McCain Button

“Show support for your candidate with our limited edition campaign buttons. Give them to your friends and go vote on 11/4.”

(Or is Facebook giving them away and I’ve just missed the Obama one?)
Just one (cute) example of how social networking sites have changed [...]

Slate V Campaign Recap

Everything you might have missed (or want to relive) between the first and last debates:

Spreading the wealth

TaxVox, commenting on the idea that Obama’s tax policies would be redistributive, while McCain’s wouldn’t be:
… [If] McCain favors a flat tax, he should tell us and explain why he thinks it is a good idea to redistribute income by raising taxes on the middle class and giving the money to the wealthy.
The argument would [...]

John McCain, a cappella?

Ana Marie Cox notes how many musicians/songwriters have asked/demanded that McCain stop using their music.  Soon he’ll have to sing his own tune as he walks out on stage.

Next strategy: Talk about the Court

Ed Kilgore on McCain, Obama, SCOTUS, and the idea that the GOP could win by talking about activist judges again:
Seven of the current nine Justices were appointed by Republican presidents.
Going back a while, 12 of the last 14 Supreme Court appointments were made by Republican presidents (two by Bush 43, two by Bush 41, three [...]