By: Jonathan Martin

Electoralmap.com analyzes the candidates’ demographic strategies, complete with analogical shorthand for all three: Obama = Tim Kaine, Clinton = Ted Strickland, McCain = Ronald Reagan.

Joe Klein has a really good column in the new TIME on Obama’s speech

Ruffini thinks through the McCain campaign’s decision to decentralize.

Matt Lewis assesses the McCain/Dayton/Twitter fall-out

Patrick Ottenhoff mulls which swing states Obama and HRC would be suited

McCain writes an op-ed in the French daily Le Monde calling for a stronger Franco-American alliance. Note: this is a translation from the original French. (Insert joke here.)

Another Republican rep retires–it’s now at 29!–reminding us all that John McCain is probably the GOP’s last best hope to salvage this cycle

Even if the GOP loses all its seats, the Christian Right will continue to push for judges.

Jake Tapper sums up an Obama-McCain race: "Obama saying McCain teaches George Bush Foreign Policy 101 … McCain saying Obama needs to take National Security 101."

Margie Omero takes a look at the Dem-McCain horserace polls, and concludes Obama is stronger than he appears.

The Washington Post’s fact-checker whacks McCain for the Iran-Al Qaeda statements, and reports that the McCain campaign is distributing a sheet defending the conflation.

Watch the Right spend the next few months complaining that the media isn’t buying the conservative take, and the Left get frustrated that they’re not hitting McCain hard enough.

Americans believe racism is a bigger problem than sexism. But what about ageism?

I guess I’m not a "typical white person"

 

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