Ya know what,

After the past couple of days, I'm finding that I envy low-information voters, before becoming a supporter of Barack Obama, I was one of them.  I knew my politics, but I was not a political junkie.  What I mean is I paid attention to most of the issues, but I did not really pay attention to ads, speeches, etc.  Now though, like most people in the blogosphere, I've become obsessed.  It seems like I check the polls daily, I keep abreast of all political news alerts, ads, talking points, etc, I even read and post on liberal blogs.

But I tell you some days I genuinely miss my low-info days.  Luckily, I'm surrounded daily my used-to be fellow low-info peeps, so they keep me sane during "problem" times.  Ah, to go about my day not caring or knowing that Barack Obama is "down" in the polls, or that the race is dead heat.

Man, I miss those days.

I just finished watching Bob Roberts. That was the first time I had seen it. Great flick.

What's your favorite political movie?

I think mine is either Dave or Primary Colors.

My tax guy told me that Obama's gonna be real bad for me, so I'm going to join with my fellow MyDD comrades and express my extreme disappointment at the terrible campaign he is about to run.

all the way to my bank.

Iowa Democrats released a new attack video against John McCain and his crap record on Equal Pay.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKrqzyKw0 gk

now THAT's what's up tonight.

clinton staffers are assembling a "whip team" to mobilize in case of anti-Obama protests by Clinton supporters during the convention.  Members would stand in front of protesters and raise Obama signs.

"Is it typical for a losing candidate to have their own whip team? No. But it's also not usual for a losing candidate to get 18 million votes."

on McCain's birthday, the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, and for McCain's VP announcement. His campaign should release an ad with pictures of John McCain and Bush eating cake. He should loudly wish McCain a happy 72nd birthday and talk about everything Bush/McCain have not done for the people in the region.

reinstating the draft? I hope the youth is listening to that and I hope to see some ad's firing on him for it.

Obama really needs to start campaigning hard. Maybe these polls will show him he has to start hitting back, HARD. He hasn't done nearly the job he should be doing in linking McCain to Bush. Hoping he picks it up here on now

 Obama could save a lot of money by conceding the election when he gives his speech at the old Mile High Stadium. MyDD diarists have made a compelling argument that the election is over. At first I resisted and objected, but after taking a cold hard look at the facts, it is now crystal clear to me that Obama does not have enough support within the Democratic Party to do much more than embarrass us all.

Obama's got a couple of nice new attack ads which are linked in the following diary:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/20/ 222521/602/43/571521

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26314990/

"The Clinton factor
Yet perhaps the biggest factor keeping the presidential race close has been Obama's inability to close the deal with some of Hillary Clinton's supporters. According to the poll, 52 percent of them say they will vote for Obama, but 21 percent are backing McCain, with an additional 27 percent who are undecided or want to vote for someone else.

What's more, those who backed Clinton in the primaries -- but aren't supporting Obama right now -- tend to view McCain in a better light than Obama and have more confidence in McCain's ability to be commander-in-chief."

In this poll Obama leads McCain by 3pts, Hillary leads McCain by 6pts (outside MOE).....

HILLARY FOR VP IS THE ANSWER

Watching women's beach volleyball.

I've had a crush on Misty May forever.

i have a few questions about the roll call vote.  

1.  when is it?  anyone know? what day and time?  this i gotta see.

2.  what's the magic delegate number?  if obama gets fewer delegates than he won/is expected then it'll be "dems divided, he's gonna lose."  what if somehow hillary gets fewer delegates then she won?  some of delegaes figure o's the nominee, so they might as well votefor him een thouh they're pledged for clinton (i don't think this hould happen, but it may). sould she recieve fewer delegates, we're not going to start hearing bs "he forced the rollcall vote to embaress her" stories are we?

Last stop for Obama/VP caravan before arriving in Denver: Tuesday in Billings, MT.

http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/ 2008/08/21/news/local/18-obama_s.txt

Schweitzer a steal on Intrade at 2.1.