Florida!

If you remember earlier, as I opined about whom Mr. Obama should chose as his running mate, I argued that it made the most sense to chose someone who would help him with Florida. At the time, I argued for Clinton, but arguing that McCain should pick Palin may have been just as effective for Mr. Obama's chances. I have been saying that for about a week now, and apparently, maybe based on this, someone is listening.

According to Mr. Smith, at Politico, they are upping their efforts to court Jewish voters in the sunshine state.

[UPDATE: Now even Nate Silver thinks Florida should be target #1]

Question of the day...

Who will be more successful, the protesters who have attempted to file complaints with the St. Paul Police Department about police procedures related to the Republican National Convention, or the Bulgarian women's ice hockey team in Olympic qualifying?

Bulgaria, has set the bar, albeit quite low: they scored just one goal while allowing 153 goals in just three games. That's right, three games. The team lost 30-1 to Croatia and 41-0 to Italy before taking the ice for the biggest drubbing in International Ice Hockey Federation history. The women lost 82-0 to Slovakia, whose coach later said "We took it as training."

That's one in the column for the Bulgarians. On the other hand, the 10 to 20 people who have attempted to file complaints with the internal affairs unit of the St. Paul Police Department have been even less successful. Because none of the complaints have been signed, the Police Department is not moving forward with any type of investigation.

Furthermore, it's being reported that the independent review of police planning and tactics during last week's RNC will not be investigating any allegations of excessive force by the police.

Stay tuned for the results.

Wow. Now that's a low blow.

Is this a game changer? It sure might be. A very good and very powerful ad.

A familiar sight?

Get used to it.

Feeling scared?

For anyone who is feeling a bit scared by this, I offer this as a way to chill out.

Double Standard

Green Screen-gate [UPDATE]

Two wonderful insights to what went wrong last night. The first (in the order in which I viewed them) is here, from Talking Points Memo.

An even better post can be found here, which is from The Field, a blog I don't read enough, but I have been featuring on my "What to Read First" segment for the past few months. It can be found on the right portion of the page.

Great work fellow bloggers!

UPDATE: Walter Reed Middle School not OK with GOP use!