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Megan McArdle claims to be able to tweak Democrats with a small factoid.

If you’re a Republican and want to tweak your Democratic friends, send them the FEC list and point out that, contrary to the arguments of Ruy Teixera and John Judis in The Emerging Democratic Majority, states that went for Bush in 2000 had [...]

Maybe its because I have never attended an actual dinner party, but I have no clue what David Brooks is talking about.
He precipitates calamities like this paragraph:

It is only now that the dinner party lion emerges to stake his claim to greatness. While others quiver with pre-election anxiety, their mood rising and collapsing with the [...]

The Pentagon is finally looking more seriously into the Halliburton no-bid fiasco.
As Halliburton spokeswoman Wendy Hall says:

“On the larger issues, the old allegations have once again been recycled, this time one week before the election,”

Yes, because those treacherous Democrats are always excercising undue influence over in the Pentagon’s internal investigators.

Dana Milibank outlines the tactics candidates must resort to against a 24 hour news cycle.
Every speech is a major and the language is “the harshest yet”:

Bush’s campaign has been particularly effective in drawing new media attention to essentially the same message by adding a few new turns of phrase; Bush’s message has been revamped nearly [...]

Pakistan has declined our offer of money to help reform religious schools.

Catching the Bush administration by surprise, Pakistan has refused to accept financial and technical assistance offered by the US for reforming over 10,000 Islamic religious schools in the country.

This effort has been our major prong in the battle for hearts and minds of Muslims [...]

Peter Olney writes in the New York Times about the Yankees’ lost playoffs.
He compares this year’s team to the recent past:

It is a different team, as Jeter said, and the Yankees must go through a long reconstruction of the farm system before they have another dynasty.

The Yankees must harken back to those halycon days when [...]

David Adesnik is on some sort of inane comment spree.
He writes about political leanings among the Ivy League:
His results schock (himself):

Yet as Bob Musil points out, an informal poll of the Yale football team shows that 62 players are supporting Bush but only 27 are backing Kerry. I’m half-surprised and half not. There’s no specific [...]

The only salvagable benefit of these playoffs is the hope that the Red Sox win without much fuss.
Maybe then fans of a team with the 2nd highest payroll in the majors can quit whining.

From a Washington Post article on the Native American vote:

But skepticism of campaign pledges runs deep in Indian country, given the government’s history of broken promises.

Something of a humongous understatement.