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I hoped tonight, after some fairly wild trick and treating in my Johannesburg neighbourhood, that the polls would treat me to some calm.
And with just 3 days and 7 hours before Super Tuesday, it’s looking good:
Real Clear Politics indicate that Obama is leading on 11 polls and that the RCP average has him leading 49.9 points to McCain’s 43.5. Read More…
Not only are a growing number of voters saying that Sarah Palin is not qualified to be vice president, a former Republican Secretary of State and one of John McCain’s most prominent supporters ‘offered a stunningly frank and remarkably bleak assessment of her capacity to handle the presidency should such a scenario arise.’
Lawrence Eagleburger said on Thursday that the Alaska governor is not only unprepared to take over the job on a moment’s notice but, even after some time in office, would only amount to an “adequate” commander in chief.
“And I devoutly hope that [she] would never be tested,” he added.
According to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll 59 percent of voters surveyed said Palin was not prepared for the job, up nine percentage points since the beginning of the month.
Obama is still in the lead, with 51 percent of likely voters supporting him and 40 percent supporting McCain.
PS: Headline stolen from Eric Zorn quoted on Daily Kos.
About a year ago, when my foetus was about 7 months, the Times of London splashed with a story on pregnancy and drinking. The UK government had issued a warning about drinking while pregnant: don’t drink at all, was the advice the paper offered.
I had been drinking lightly during the first two trimesters of my third pregnancy as I had done throughout my first two. After reading this news, I felt terrible and so guilty. So I avoided alcohol for the remainder of that pregnancy.
But today there is good news, also reported on the Times of London:
Women who drink alcohol occasionally during pregnancy do not harm their unborn babies – in fact their children may even benefit, a large study suggests.
Research involving more than 12,000 children showed that mothers who drank lightly during pregnancy – defined as one to two units, or a single drink a week – did not increase the risk of having babies with mental impairment or behavioural problems.
Rather, children born to light drinkers were found to be less likely to have problems and peformed better in some tests compared with offspring of mothers who did not drink at all.
The findings run counter to government guidance, which advises pregnant women and those trying to conceive to cut out alcohol altogether.
This YouTube clip has had more than 11 million hits on YouTube. ’Dear Mr Obama’ is the most-viewed election-related video on the YouTube website.
It’s a message from a pro-McCain Iraqi soldier. At 1 minute 55 seconds, the video is short, simple and powerful.
My fellow blogger, The Frock Report sent this to me:
From the MANITOBA HERALD, Canada: Liberals sneak into Canada
The flood of American liberals sneaking across the border into Canada has intensified in the past week, sparking calls for increased patrols to stop the illegal immigration.
The possibility of a McCain/Palin election is prompting the exodus among left-leaning citizens who fear they’ll soon be required to hunt, pray, and agree with Bill O’Reilly.
Canadian border farmers say it’s not uncommon to see dozens of sociology professors, animal rights activists and Unitarians crossing their fields at night. Read More…