John McCain, evidently, is not accepting his defeat gracefully:
The meeting in the Capitol’s Strom Thurmond Room on March 11 was a Republican effort led by Sens. McCain of Arizona, John Thune of South Dakota, and Mel Martinez of Florida to reach out to Hispanics. But two people who attended the session say they were taken [...]
I have only mentioned Meghan McCain- daughter of John and Cindy- once on Moue and that was to highlight her recent comments on Ann Coulter as our Quote of the Day. McCain had written a piece for The Daily Beast that included the following about Coulter.
Meghan McCain- daughter of John and Cindy- writes in her column at The Daily Beast:
To make matters worse, certain individuals continue to perpetuate negative stereotypes about Republicans. Especially Republican women. Who do I feel is the biggest culprit? Ann Coulter. I straight up don’t understand this woman or her popularity. I find her offensive, radical, insulting, [...]
It really is no surprise that John McCain and Joe Lieberman like each other so much. They’re cut from the same cloth of standing on whichever side of an issue seems most advantageous at the moment. McCain was asked whether he would support his former running mate Sarah Palin if she ran for president in [...]
George Lakoff wrote in Don’t Think of an Elephant that the Republican Party has (traditionally) been better at appearing cohesive from the outside despite existing inner turmoil. Republican groups with different agendas would work together with the understanding that the needs of all would eventually be met if groups waited their turn. This election cycle knocked down [...]
Update 10:20pm
McCain’s concession speech is on now, and he’s being quite gracious — this is the McCain I remember from 2000 and haven’t seen since.
Update 8:23pm
MSNBC has just called Ohio for Obama. Wow. That’s pretty much game over, barring any kind of west coast shock.
Nice. Now it’s all about the House and Senate races. More [...]
Here, dear reader(s), is a handy-dandy quick reference list of which states close their polls at which hour. I’ve also included some annotations on what to expect at various points of the evening, but take those with a grain of salt.
(You could, of course, also download the delightfully festive color-coded map from Swing State Project.)
All [...]
The first official returns are in, courtesy of the New Hampshire towns of Dixville Notch and Hart’s Location:
Democrat Obama defeated Republican John McCain by a count of 15 to 6 in Dixville Notch, where a loud whoop accompanied the announcement in Tuesday’s first minutes. The town of Hart’s Location reported 17 votes for Obama, 10 [...]
Catching up on some reading, I noticed Skippy ruminating about the McCain camp’s unbridled/unhinged optimism heading into Tuesday. He goes on to quote John Dickerson over at Slate, dutifully reporting the uptick of that thing called, um, Hope on the Straight Talk Uncomfortable, Dangerous Local Express:
mcinturff released a memo yesterday that outlined his case for [...]
McCain campaign spokesperson Michael Goldfarb was interviewed by CNN’s Rick Sanchez yesterday with hilarious results. Sanchez was trying to push an “Obama hangs with anti-Semites” narrative by bringing up Obama’s purported relationship with Rashid Khalidi. Khalidi is a Palestinian scholar (and- oddly enough for a man accused of being anti-Semitic- a Semite) and the subject of a [...]
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