Berkeley Bubble

I never thought I’d be writing a post about New Orelans Saints Quarterback Drew Brees AND a campaign issue, but here’s a strange one–Brees’ mother, Mina Brees, had been using a picture of Drew in his old San Diego Chargers uniform as part of her campaign for a seat on Texas’ 3rd Court of Appeals, […]

What gives with Republicans making statements against Democratic veterans who are disabled and have lost limbs in fighting for their country?
Today, McCain made this rather strange statement supporting Republican Peter Roskam, who’s running against veteran Tammy Duckworth, who lost her legs while fighting in Iraq:

“I go out to Walter Reed quite often and see these […]

So Bush and the Republicans are getting so desperate because they fear big losses next week, that they resort to attacking John Kerry over messing up one line in a prepared speech. Thankfully, Kerry’s fighting back–and fighting back hard, and standing up for our troops in Iraq–here’s an excerpt from his response to the […]

Yikes. We go from hurling the Macaca slur at an Indian-American campaign worker, to a report that Allen allegedly abused his siblings when they were younger, as detailed in a biography written by George Allen’s sister called “Fifth Quarter: The Scrimmage of a Football Coach’s Daughter“:
“Ever since my brother George held me […]

The 411 on the Bennifer II event, provided by the Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund:
Saturday, November 4: Build-up to Get-Out-The-Vote
Canvass in Danville, San Ramon, Dublin, and Pleasanton:
Meet: Civic Park, 100 Main Street, Pleasanton, CA, 10:00 AM
5 Bus Pick-Up/Drop-Off
· Oakland/Berkeley: MacArthur BART Station, 555 40th Street, Oakland, CA
o […]

Maybe Democrats are starting to get “spooked” by the prospect of another six years of Joe Lieberman as their Senator, especially given that he refused to accept the will of the Democratic voters in Connecticut, as expressed in a little event called the DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY.
Rasmussen now shows this race narrowing quickly, as Ned Lamont is […]

Because we live in an area with a lot of trick-o-treaters, I’ve decided to go all out this year and get a cheap fog machine. Yes–you heard right–a fog machine, to add to the Halloween atmosphere in front of my door. The fake cotton spiderwebs are also a nice touch–but everyone has them, […]

Apparently, there’s a whole lot of online betting going on with the 2006 election. Here’s one example–the Washington Stock Exchange, which allows you to gamble with “fake” money on the probabilities of various candidates winning their races, and the probability of one or the party taking one or both houses of Congress.
Two other online […]

Some great political pumpkin imagery for all of you on this Halloween:

The latest poll released today by Majority Watch shows McNerney leading Pombo 48 to 46! Total N of 983, MoE=+/- 3.12. Here are the crosstabulations.
Update 11:52: As someone pointed out in an email to me, this poll is actually very, very good news, because the sample is actually skewed toward conservative or Republican […]