I was transferred to Germany last June and I still have 20 months left before I will be back home. In the meantime, my NC plate is proudly displayed in my rear window and my Obama sticker decorates the trunk of my car.

Moveon.org was kind enough to provide me with an Obama 08 sticker during the primaries. It has been proudly displayed on my car right above my German license plate ever since. (Still waiting for my Obama/Biden sticker but hey...). I never doubted for one minute that he would be our guy. He so inspired me at times I had tears in my eyes. And I am generally pretty pragmatic and not easily rattled.

I gladly stay up until 2 am to catch one of his rallies, have my DVR set to catch all the speeches and even put in for a vacation day on Nov. 5th.

I just know I won't want to miss a minute of the returns as they come in. Coffee and champagne are on standby!

My NC plate is propped up in my back window. I have a homemade Obama 08 flyer in my window, right next to old Glory.

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Everyone in this neighborhood knows where the American lives. Our windows were egged once (gang of crazed Turkish kids late at night) - but this was over a year ago. The Bush hating chants have stopped and everyone is respectful and sometimes downright gleeful!

We get free shots for desert at our local steakhouse, everyone wants to talk about Obama and I've had my share of drive-by honks and thumbs-up a plenty. People are excited about the change in the air and I am so glad to be part of it! I tired of having to state over and over again that no, I did not vote for Bush.

Damn proud to support Obama!

North Carolina, I miss you! I wish I were home to canvass with you, phonebank with you and go to rallies with you. Know that I am glued to every second of this fight. Know that I am at the edge of my seat watching those poll numbers out of NC going up and up and up. Do me proud and I'll be home for Christmas to celebrate with you!

(Cross-posted at Clintonistas for Obama.)

Ben Smith has posted on his blog at Politico.com a short update about the incoming numbers of early voters in Georgia.  There is a disproportionate number of Africans Americans who have cast early ballots in the Peach State.  Though only 29 percent of registered voters in Georgia are Black, 37 percent of early voters in Georgia are Black.  We still have three weeks before the election, and 75,000 more Georgians already have cast ballots than all early votes cast in Georgia in 2004.  Data is available from the web site of the Georgia Election Division.

What is interesting about the Scholastic Kid's poll , is that it is rarely wrong. The base methodology for this poll is to take submitted votes from either the Scholastic Kids News Magazine, that are in turn submitted through the schools to final tally - or through the registered votes from the Scholastic website and/or a similiar registered mechanism from twitter.com/scholasticnews. They take , in general, about two weeks to compile the results. In the past six election cycles it has correctly predicted the winner of the election.

Here are their results as/of 10/14/08:

Sen. Barack Obama, 57%
Sen. John McCain,  39%
Undecided,          4%

Of course, this doesn't take into account McCains soon-to-be stunning debate performance where I am told that he will attempt to tie Sen. Obama to William Ayers.  McCain's brilliant campaign that somehow seems to avoid discussing real issues, or even, for that matter - their own candidate to be able to look into the camera - may have the effect of making Sen. Obama's margin of victory even higher.

So. What do you think? Is this accurate?

Last week Pinocchio Politics brought you McLiar Bingo http://chronicle.com/review/brainstorm/b ousquet/mcliar-bingo - this week, PP has a new version with updated lies and a randomizer that makes it easy to print as many unique boards as you want.  

With McCain promising to step it up after last Wednesday's tepid performance, you can expect some king sized whoppers in this last debate, and McLiar bingo is one of the best ways to keep up with his lies as they happen.  The board features the McCain-as-Pinocchio and  includes 24 of Mac's favorite lies on the economy, energy and national security.

Also, for this economy-themed debate, Pinocchio Politics has created "Fundamentally Strong" Cocktails - a set of cocktail recipes that are the best way to drink to McCain's lies.  Drinks include "Old Fashioned Bailouts" and "Wa-Mu Martinis."

Senator Stevens has two messages for us:

1. He stands behind what he has done and is not guilty of any wrong doing.

2. He understands that he has done things that are illegal and may be subject to fines or jail time.

Well, which is it? Looks like Stevens is more interested in saving his own hid from his own wrong doings than actually representing the people of Alaska.

John Sununu is trying to subsidize Wall Street - with your Social Security dollars! Not only has he supported the risky privatization of social security in the past, given the recent turmoil in the market, he is still behind this terrible idea.

What Sununu fails to realize is that markets go through cycles of ups and down. This guarantees that every few years, senior citizens will start to draw benefits during a market down-turn, and will receive lower benefits, simply due to the nature of the market.

Does it make sense to arbitrarily risk peoples Social Security benefits just at the point in their lives when risky investments are least recommended?

No.

John Sununu needs to think more about the well-being of senior citizens, instead of the well-being of Wall Street.

Scholastic's kid vote hasn't been wrong since 1960. They correctly picked Bush twice, so they appear to be a very good indication of the way their parents vote. It makes sense.

The score? Obama 57 - 39% with 4% undecided. 250,000 kids were polled. Just on MSNBC.

http://content.scholastic.com/browse/art icle.jsp?id=3750501

Crossposted from The Motley Moose

The Palin Fail on abuse of power and ethics violation is a matter of record now.  A non-partisan legislative council convicted her of those charges.  The McCain machine response is that she wins because she does not face certain censure and impeachment due to her violations, only potential censure and impeachment.  They - and most of the media - have missed the point.

The Palin administration has been convicted of rank amateurism.  If this is the "executive experience" she touts, we are better off hiring an experienced executive crook like Ken Lay.

At least one person in the media didn't miss that.