I’ve been calling for this ad for weeks, and the Obama campaign delivers…

Mark Warner leads Jim Gilmore 61%-29% according to a new ABC/Wash. Post poll. Some people are surprised by these numbers.
I’m not.
It’s also the second poll out today (SUSA) that shows Barack Obama leading John McCain outside the margin of error.
      

The good news is… if Palin isn’t elected Vice-President, she’s available for Secretary of Education:
I pushed her on the earth’s creation, whether it was really less than 7,000 years old and whether dinosaurs and humans walked the earth at the same time. And she said yes, she’d seen images somewhere of dinosaur fossils with human […]

Sen. Chap Petersen has a recap of the most recent Warner-Gilmore debate on his blog, Ox Road South.
      

Lowelll Feld writes:
Unbelievable, how can this guy be a Congressman?
It’s worse than that. According to The Weekly Standard’s Fred Barnes:
Of Republicans in the house, I would say that Eric Cantor has by far the best prospects of being the next Republican Speaker of anyone. In fact, there is nobody close.
AND he was vetted by the […]

Just in from the Obama campaign:
Foreign Policy Town Hall with Richard Clarke and Representative Jane Harman
Saturday 20th September
3.15 – 4.15
Doors open at 3
Location:
Germana Community College,
Auditorium, Workforce building,
10000 Germana Point Dr
Fredericksburg, VA 22408
Clarke was counter-terrorism advisor under the past four Presidents. Harman is Chairwoman of the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing, and Terrorism Risk Assessment.
[…]

On a somewhat more serious note though….does anyone realize how unpopular hockey is these days?
A few years ago when the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs were shown on Fox, it was the worst ratings in the history of network prime-time television. Now the games are shown on some basic cable channel I’ve never heard of called Versus.
Detroit calls […]

That’s right ITA! Put those partisan bloggers and the “sun scare industry” in their place!
After all skin cancer is just an urban legend (ask John McCain), like the Loch Ness Monster or a Republican who can balance a budget.
Sarah Palin Said to Have a Tanning Bed in Alaska Governor’s Mansion
Tanning Beds Provide Much Needed Vitamin D […]

In honor of Sen. Obama’s new Equal Pay for Women ad going up on the air here in VA, here’s Lily Ledbetter’s speech at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver a few weeks ago:
Good evening. Many of you are probably asking: Who is that grandmother from Alabama at the podium? I can assure you, […]

Who’s that you ask?
Check this out:

In the end, Travis and his dog Presley won the top prize. Laurie and Andrew finished 2nd (not bad for an underdog).