There's no business like snow business.

This is starting to look like a feeble old man trying to prevent the Hoover Dam from collapsing.

Btw, Nate Silver at 538 has numbers up that show Obama leading in North Carolina early voting by 34 points. That's a lot of points.

http://pufferfish.typepad.com/

Yes, I've gotten those! How patently absurd it sounds!

Very annoying too.

Wow, if they are going back to the whole paris hilton bullshit I'm feeling more and more confident every day.

In very red western NC, we've been getting anti-Obama RNC mailers lately, too. Two in the mail just yesterday. One on "what Democratic leaders really think about Barack Obama," with the usual expected quotes. The other a more disturbing assurance (amid pictures of our mountains) that "It's okay to believe in traditional values," etc. I read it at least partially as "It's okay to be suspicious of people who are 'different' than us." "Bitter" comments of course worked in, too.

Plus lots of calls similar to those described here, usually jointly paid for by McCain/Palin and the RNC. And lots of anti-Hagan mailers, too, one from that Freedom's Watch group if I remember correctly.

It's not "show friends," it's "show bidness"!

Hey, I think the next McCain ad should have ominous music over an invocation of "San Francisco values."

Karl Rove's playbook is about as fresh as a Terence Trent D'Arby album.

Wikipedia sez:

Spamming is the abuse of electronic messaging systems to indiscriminately send unsolicited bulk messages

Since robocalling sends identical messages to numerous recipients, like e-mail spam, shouldn't it be classified as spam and treated the same as e-mail spam with the government requiring telcos to rein-in the practice?

What the DOW gives, the Jones takes away. The market is slip sliding away again.

Anyone been to Hollywood, lately? There are scads of tourists and vagrants roaming the streets. Was Obama collecting funds with a tin cup? Or was he in Brentwood where McCain recently held a fund raiser? Or was he just somewhere in SoCal?
It would be nice to know the technicalities. Inquiring minds want to know.

I thought he was running a respectful campaign.

I thought he was a "good and decent man".

McCain is giving me warm feelings about William "Boss" Tweed.

The fact that the McCain campaign has to spend money in NC is interesting, but otherwise these robocalls are puffballs. Wait 'til the Rev. Wright and Bill Ayers calls come out.

This is fresh information and we should have a TPM section in which readers from across the country report on robocalls, voter caging, or anything else that Republican operatives try to do in the shadows.

It now sounds as if these calls are going out to swing states. I have caller ID and I'll try and see if there's identifying info coming in ... should I receive more calls.

I am glad some some voters have figured out that McCain has nothing to say. I wish more would.

And I just wish this were over. I do not know how much more of these ugly lies I can put up with.

I'm in NC and yesterday I got a call, a taped message from McShame's mother, asking me vote her for her son because he is a great American.....

I live in central Virginia and received the robocall yesterday afternoon.

I live in central Virginia and received the robocall yesterday afternoon.

Do they really think anyone listens to these things?? Seems like a waste of time to me OR they simply do not have the volunteers to call and engage people like we are doing to answer questions and do real persuasion.
When I was working in NC for the primary I had one voter tell me how much they hated the Hillary robo calls and that since I had called and talked to her Barack was getting her vote....no one likes "voicemail"...

Heh. Something to look forward to on "Work at Home Day" here in Oshkosh.

Can't help comparing these robocalls to the very nice call I got from the local Obama office yesterday -- a real human who very politely noted that I'd been into the office to donate, and invited me to stop in and help -- even if I could only spare a half hour or so. Finished with an apology if his information was in error and asked me to have a nice day.

Seems like the Obama folks are making an effort to talk to individuals and the McCain folks are flinging poo in random directions to see if anybody catches it.

Hel! I'm really afraid this ACORN bs is just the GOP creating a grounds for possibly trying to invalidate the election...Please talk me off the ledge and tell me a coup d'etat won't happen.

You know what kills me about the second ad? The "wasteful spending' he talks about is programs for the rest of us. McCain's line seems to be, Sorry, Wall Street got all the money, we can't afford to do anything for regular people. And then he sells that to regular people as though it's a virtue.

You know, I never took geography (I'm not some elitist asshole who values "learning" or some bullshit like that), but last I checked, Hollywood was in America, no?

Add Iowa to the list. We received the "Hollywood" robocall last night in Johnston, IA.

Mebbe McCain forgot to ask Joe Lieberman who controls "Hollywood".

"I'm from Hollywood."

Andy Kaufman

Taking a break from phonebanking.

How about mcsenile's fundraising expertise (as well as crap-shooting trips) in Vegas: $400K here, $2 million there. He just loves the place.

O/T (sort of): It seems the latest McCain strategy may not be working, either. Go look at InTrade (the webpage, not the snapshot on TPM); Obama's currently trading at 82.3 vs. McCain at 18.7.

Hu-frickin-zah!

Only phonies and Communists go to Hollywood. Like the millions of tourists from the Midwest and the South who walk down Hollywood Boulevard and go to Universal Studios each week. Or the politicians who fly in on private jets for fundraisers with Hollywood phonies like Bruce Willis, Sylvester Stallone, Kelsey Grammar and other Republicans who contribute to John McCain.

Now that is fresh McCain saying Obama puts celebrity over country when it was McCain who went out to get himself a real life D list celebrity named Sarah Palin. A nobody that who levels of incompetence and incoherence are now legendary. No it was McCain who chose celebrity over country. McCain needed a shot in the arm so he went out and stunt casted Palin proving once again McCain’s pitiful judgment and love for self over country

While New Orleans was drowning, John McCain was happy to join Bush for some cake:

http://www.newsweek.com/id/133551

i got this call (i'm a registered independent in North Carolina) and it pissed me off. i hate dirty tricks and i hate spam phonecalls.

fuck off, mccain.

http://www.generationswithvision.com/default.aspx

Kevin Swanson advocate for "FEAR and HATE"

Yeah. "Dems put Hollywood above America." Just think of all of those Hollywood celebrity Democrats that have held public office: Ronald Reagan, Clint Eastwood, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and of course Fred Grandy who played Gopher on "The Love Boat".

Oh, wait, they were all REPUBLICANS! Silly me! Well, then scratch that list. Here's the list of the Hollywood celebrity DEMOCRATS that have held public office: .........

Hmmm.... I couldn't think of any, either.

Interesting how the GOP - which is evidently fascinated with putting Hollywood in office - obsesses with this meme.

No wonder Republicans are so critical of Hollywood actors. SAG is one of the few unions that the GOP hasn't been able to destroy. SAG is a rare group of folks that haven't forgotten what it takes to make ends meet, who now have access to the microphone and are actively making their political opinions heard. We have union employees with a national voice overwhelmingly supporting the causes Americans believe in. "Democrats put Hollywood above America"? No, Democrats in Hollywood put America above the GOP, and it drives them nuts!