Russ McBee

Back in late February or early March, it was increasingly clear that McCain and Obama would be their parties' nominees. At that time, I firmly believed Obama could not beat McCain; I felt that he could have beaten any other Republican, but that McCain's appeal to the center would be impossible for Obama to overcome. I believed this so strongly, ...

A bright new day has dawned in this country. Hallelujah. Congratulations, Mr. President. You have a huge job ahead of you, given that you will be faced with excising the cancer of the last eight years, but you have our support. Get to work. We'll help you.

This morning, a co-worker said she'd gone to vote before work and went to Starbucks afterward, before coming in to the office. Standing next to her at the counter was a young African-American man, and they struck up a conversation about the election. She said, ''Have you voted?'' He said, ''Yes. Have you?'' She showed him the newspaper she was ...

This Twitter update from MC Hammer (yes, that MC Hammer) sums up the significance of tomorrow's vote, in fewer than 140 characters: Preparing for the most important election in history.... can't articulate what I'm feeling... It's the culmination of a very long journey.. Yes, it is. And yes, we can.

I've never linked to RedState before, since it's just such an enormous waste of electrons and brain cells, but every once in a while, a post comes along that is so blazingly and hilariously self-delusional that it cannot be allowed to pass without remark. Some goofball named Dan Perrin has posted seven reasons why he thinks McCain will ...

Obama gave his ''closing argument'' speech yesterday, and it's powerful stuff: Meanwhile, the Bush White House (which McCain has supported over 90 percent of the time) is hard at work, frantically trying to destroy the environment as quickly as possible. Here's the closing argument against four more years of the most destructive president in US ...

Regarding the 2008 Republican platform, Chris Kelly said this: See, the problem here, for most Republican politicians, is that the platform is horrifying. A catalogue of revenge dreams and power fantasies, impossible and illegal, most of them involving women and scourging. It's the portrait in the attic of what Republican rule would look like, ...

Sister Cecilia Gaudette is a bit shocked at the media attention she's garnered over the last few days, but the attention is understandable. The 106-year-old nun, born in New Hampshire in 1902, has lived in a convent in Rome for the last fifty years, and she hasn't voted in a US Presidential election since 1952. This year, things are different: ...

Rep. Wayne Gilchrest (R-MD) is finishing his final term in Congress, after losing his primary earlier this year. He's become disillusioned with his own party, and he has some less-than-charitable things to say about the GOP: We're in this bad place as a country because of the evangelicals, the neocons, the nasty, bitter and mean ... very clever ...

A group called Science Debate 2008 sent a list of questions about science and technology policy to Barack Obama and John McCain, covering such topics as science education, stem cell research, the politicization of science, space exploration, and numerous other topics. Both candidates responded to the list of fourteen questions; their answers are ...