Sunday Editorial: Barack Obama for President:

“In every way possible, he [McCain] has earned the right to retire.”

Bi-partisan report finds McCain’s mavericky veep broke the law.

Jesus.

He is not the McCain I endorsed. He keeps saying, ‘Who is Barack Obama?’ I would ask the question, ‘Who is John McCain?’ … I’m disappointed in the tenor and the personal attacks on the part of the McCain campaign, when he ought to be talking about the issues.

—Former Michigan Republican Governor William Milliken

Dammit but we need someone to bite his lip and lie to us convincingly right now:

There’s nothing wrong with the American economy that can’t be fixed by what’s right with the American economy.

Many millions of American households are gingerly opening envelopes containing reports of the third-quarter losses in their 401(k) and other retirement accounts — telling each household its portion of the nearly $2 trillion that Americans’ accounts have recently shed. In this context, the McCain-Palin campaign’s attempt to get Americans to focus on Obama’s Chicago associations seem surreal — or, as a British politician once said about criticism he was receiving, “like being savaged by a dead sheep.“

An outlier poll? A canary in McCain’s coal mine?

ARG poll has Obama up eight in West Virginia.

All that endless fucking chatter about Obama’s “Appalachian problem” sure seems quaint right about now, doesn’t it?

Nevada is swingable, but it’s more like Missouri than Minnesota. Obama has taken his first lead there, and it’s a big one: seven points.