Broad-minded San Franciscan, demonstrating his inclusivity by reporting that he is friends with a conservative Catholic woman, despite her “unfortunate” choice of religions and politics. Read it at Michelle’s. I wrote a short missive to the reader’s rep: You know, I’d kind of like him for his outsized bigotry if he weren’t such a spectacularly liberal secular humanist cunt. Keep up the good work, Dan Collins Monkton, VT

Having touched on the different ways of sampling public opinion this morning, it was a happy coincidence to find results from the latest Gallup Panel survey, which asked respondents to describe in their own words “what comes to mind” when they think of the three leading presidential candidates.  The results regarding all three are interesting in their own ways, but I am focused on John McCain here because a similar February

passes into, like, whoa!  totally other dimension! Godspeed, and thanks for the pseudo-memories

Now that Barack Obama has specifically denounced some of the worst of Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s comments, the L.A. Times has deigned to ask black ministers about the controversy: African American ministers in Los Angeles expressed angst and concern Tuesday that a fresh round of comments by Sen. Barack Obama’s former pastor was hurting the Democratic presidential candidate’s campaign and skewing public understanding of the black church. *** “This didn’t have anything

They smile in your face All the while they want to bait your race Those B’rackstabbers.

At RCP, Jay Cost revisits the ongoing discussion about whether Barack Obama can win working class whites in the general election, from two different but equally interesting perspectives. His first take on the issue circles around a look at Clinton’s primary victories in the counties of metropolitan Pittsburgh compared to the general election performance of Republican candidates dating back to 1972.  He presents a chart showing that: (a) Reagan did not

Docweasel(s) take(s) the Pandagate handwringers to the woodshed, here. But here, I completely agree with the post.  I stopped being at all interested in perusing the Victoria’s Secret catalog when they started using Adriana Lima, who looked disturbingly 15ish.  Anyway, my daughter’s 13, and I won’t even let her watch Friends.  That’s how hung up I’ve become about this stuff.

of rote memorization.

Before we get too far away from the issue — or the Rev. Wright does something to return it to the front burner – I note that TNR’s Noam Scheiber revisited the question of why Barack Obama joined the Trinity United Church of Christ in the first instance.  Having already addressed this question — based in part on a March 19, 2007 TNR profile of  Obama — I note that Scheiber’s

The latest numbers from Public Policy Polling and SurveyUSA suggest that Barack Obama’s youth appeal is eroding in North Carolina, though he still has a commanding lead over Hillary Clinton with that demographic.  The PPP numbers are more dramatic, but I generally take that firm’s numbers with a grain of salt, for a variety of reasons.  Those numbers would be consistent with his narrow loss of the white youth vote in Pennsylvania,