Time to Vote

Polling Statistics Guru Nate Silver Tells the Fat Lady to Warm Up

Well here we are on election eve, and Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com has run today's polling through his comuters, and now gives Barack Obama a whopping 98.1% chance of winning the election — his highest number to date.

Nonetheless... let's not get complacent until all the votes are counted. Make sure that if you haven't yet voted that you get out there tomorrow and do it!

What If Obama Had Campaigned Like McCain…

In tonight's Campaign Comment, Keith Olbermann explores how things might be different today had Barack Obama said and done the things that John McCain has done throughout this election.

Cheney's Hometown Paper Endorses Obama

Wyoming's Casper Star-Tribune:

It is a foregone conclusion that Wyoming's three electoral votes will go to Sen. John McCain. It would be easy for the Star-Tribune to simply agree with the majority of voters in this red state and endorse the Republican candidate for president.

But this isn't an ordinary election, and Sen. Barack Obama has the potential to be an extraordinary leader at a time we desperately need one. The next occupant of the White House will inherit a national economy that's collapsing and two wars our nation has been fighting for years, depleting valuable resources we need to fix a multitude of domestic problems. Far too many of our nation's citizens live paycheck to paycheck, worried about whether they'll have a job next week or if a medical crisis will bankrupt them.

What America needs most in these troubled times is a president who will move the country in a positive direction. The candidate who is most likely to chart a new course that will lead us to better days is Obama. Moreover, he is the best candidate for Wyoming.

Even Fox Has Trouble Spinning Tiny McCain Crowd Size

With just one day to go, the McCain campaign expected ten times the meager 1,000 supporters who showed up for a rally in Florida. In 2004, George Bush drew 15,000 in the same area. Cue the fat lady.

Please Support Get Out the Vote Efforts To Defeat Prop 8

Today we are donating to NoOnProp8 one last time. Can you help too?

We have less than 36 hours to prevent the elimination of our right to marry. Every poll shows that this election will be extremely close. The winner will be determined by voter turnout. It is that simple. Get out the vote activities will make or break this election.

Please make a small donation to fund No On Prop 8 get out the vote efforts. Your contribution will fund one million last-minute phone calls to pre-identified No on Prop 8 voters and a massive, well-organized effort on the ground.

Thank you for helping us fight for our rights, and the rights of our loved ones, to be treated as full and equal citizens.

Debunking Myths Used to Promote Banning Gay Marriage

In calling for the defeat of Proposition 8, today's Los Angeles Times exposes the tactics of the Yes on 8 crowd.

Clever magicians practice the art of misdirection -- distracting the eyes of the audience to something attention-grabbing but irrelevant so that no one notices what the magician is really doing. Look over at that fuchsia scarf, up this sleeve, at anything besides the actual trick.

The campaign promoting Proposition 8, which proposes to amend the state Constitution to ban same-sex marriages, has masterfully misdirected its audience, California voters. Look at the first-graders in San Francisco, attending their lesbian teacher's wedding! Look at Catholic Charities, halting its adoption services in Massachusetts, where same-sex marriage is legal! Look at the church that lost its tax exemption over gay marriage! Look at anything except what Proposition 8 is actually about: a group of people who are trying to impose on the state their belief that homosexuality is immoral and that gays and lesbians are not entitled to be treated equally under the law.