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Speaking of VPILF, I saw Walter Mondale at the Mill City Market.

Somewhat more seriously, two things:
1. Their effort to completely shut down the Troopergate investigation.

2. The fact that Palin WILL NOT be doing any interviews or pressers.

The baby's Bristol's. It's only natural to have this election "grease the dolphin" to its utmost threshold.

Well, look. If you really believe it's relevant that the vp candidate's husband's business partner was accused of flirting with Palin's wife, that's fine I guess. He might have a problem with it though. And the only issue with the trooper is, why wasn't he fired long ago.

But if the lefty media you really want to drag the family of the vice presidential candidate into the mud, then there's this, this, this and this for starters.

HERO vs ZERO

(Soon to be seen on bumpers everywhere.) heh

The rumor was not that the business partner had flirted with her. It was that she was a participant in an affair with him. So now that's been cleared up. We move on.

And actually, no the trooper issue goes much further than that. There's a serious question about whether she abused the power of her office to settle a personal score.

As for all the other stuff, like the GOP hasn't already been playing that game for years.

It's sweet how the Libertarian can have so much forgiveness for a would-be book banner.

Of course I should have remembered how thoroughly you fact check before accusing anyone of anything, Maz. Innocent until proven guilty, right?

Maz is just a Wannabe White Guy. He has White envy.

Not to defend the guy, but I sincerely doubt this is true.

I have white guilt. Maybe we can trade.

Robert Smigel is a genius, but I have to admit, this is surprisingly sub-par, maybe because of the situation: He keeps dropping out of accent. Wish I'd known he was in town!

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Seriously, regardless of your politics, please visit this site.

In other news, instead of investigating whose baby Trig is, I'd like someone to dig up some footage of the kid actually awake during the past week and a half. Good grief, that boy can't be that tired from resting all day. Although, if I was forced to attend OMGWTFGOPBBQ, I'd totally feign being dead too.

Hm. I doubt by post count I'd even be in the top 10 on mnspeak. Except maybe on weekends. You got the name of the zine right, though.

Here is Triumph's second report from the RNC. It even features local Fox news reporters. It's pretty funny.

p.s. 4 parts Plymouth, 1 part Maraschino, 1 part lemon juice. I'd like to get my hands on some Creme de Violette, though I'm fine without it. kc! is out and about getting me a cherry-pitter so I can make my own maraschino cherries.

Could someone please explain to me why the rest of the country keeps insisting that Minnesota is a presidential battleground state?

I don't think it's a battleground, either. There's no serious third-party liberal candidate to syphon off the fringe element. I think it's pretty solid for Obama.

Judging from the campaigns paid advertisements... the candidates don't view Minnesota as a battleground state either. I haven't seen any paid Obama ads on TV or radio. Maybe that will change with some of the new polling out today.

While these national polls offer an interesting snapshot, it's the state polls that matter. As we have discussed here before, it is the Electoral College, not the popular vote, that elects Presidents. Via Realcleapolitics, these are the numbers you should be watching.

Natinal polls may get the chattering class 'a chattering, but the pros look to the Electoral College scorecard.

Jason has access to newswires and all kind of other fancy news-gathering tools. For those who don't, and want to track the minnesota polls, there is this page (also from realclearpolitics).

My "Drill This" baseball cap has gotten a lot more attention since the GOP convention.