Wednesday Oct 29 # 9

[1 week to Election ]

RC session 8 AM to 9AM

Pre Election predictions:

1. Is it a Realignment Election?

2. Has the age of hyperpartisanship changed?

3. Whose strategy has prevailed?

4. Have the Millennials Arrived?

5. Where the Debates influential?

6. Have Presidential Politics Changed?

 

RC & VSPU session 9AM to 11:15 AM

Week of Oct 22 to Oct 28

a. Polls

CNN Electoral calculator

FiveThirtyEight

Karl Rove predicts

RealClearPolitics

http://www.shiftingthedebate.com/shifting/videobarometer.html

b. Wed Oct 22

Slate Magazine Vote for Obama: McCain lacks the character and temperament to be president. And Palin is simply a disgrace., By Christopher Hitchens; Posted Monday, Oct. 13, 2008, at 10:44 AM ET

How the West Was Lost: Explaining McCain's unpopularity in his own backyard
Nate Silver,  The New Republic  Published: Monday, October 20, 2008

Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2008-- Why Barack Obama Is Winning, By Joe Klein

 

Daily Show-Palin Shops

c. Thursday Oct 23

Thursday, October 23, 2008 ; EXCLUSIVE: McCain lambastes Bush years
Joseph Curl (Contact) and Stephen Dinan (Contact)  Washington Times

The 'real' America, really: America today looks less and less like the one extolled by GOP mythmakers. by Rosa Brooks; October 23, 2008

 

Bush endorses McCain-SNL

d. Friday Oct 24

Is the Southern Strategy Dead?

 

Elizabeth Dole is fighting hard for her Senate seat, Democrats have significantly outpaced Republicans in new voter registrations, and unions have put organizing muscle in North Carolina for the first time.

 

 

Harold Meyerson | October 24, 2008 | web only

 

 

Week in Review

e. Saturday, Oct 25

October 25, 2008--While McCain Looked Away, Florida Shifted , By ADAM NAGOURNEY

Palin allies report rising campaign tension
By: Ben Smith
October 25, 2008 08:30 PM EST

 

Obama and Michelle Variety Show-ahead

f. Sunday, Oct 26

The Making (and Remaking) of McCain

http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/president/advertising/index.html

g. Monday, Oct 27

Keith Olbermann: Palin Rogue candidate?

Hannity: HIstory of Obama's Radicalism

Batman debates Penguiin

Daily Show-Final Week talking points

h. Tuesday, Oct 28

 

 

 

 

e. Russian News on Vote 2008: