Obama TaxCut Calcuator

It is a lesser known fact that Obama's tax plan will provide bigger tax cuts for more people than McCain's plan. Obama is especially good for families that make $111,000 or less. McCain's plan is targeted to benefit families that make over $600,000 the most.

Here is a tool to calculate your own taxcut and compare:



Here are some documents that detail the differences:

• McCain / Obama Tax Plan Comparison
  

JibJab

No political blog is complete without a link to the JibJab movie for the 2008 campaign:

Time for Some Campaignin'

And here is the 2004 movie for posterity:

This Land!

Real Palin appears on SNL

Colin Powell endorses Obama

3rd and Final 2008 Debate

2008 Electoral College Scenarios -- Obama Sweep

<p><strong>><a href='http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/interactives/campaign08/electoral-college/'>Electoral College Prediction Map</a></strong> - Predict the winner of the general election. Use the map to experiment with winning combinations of states. Save your prediction and send it to friends.</p>

The Obama sweep scenario is looking more likely now that Economic fears grow, and linking of McCain to Bush policies is starting to sink in. The key states in the sweep are:

• VIRGINIA feeding into N. CAROLINA
• FLORIDA + OHIO swinging despite the 2000 and 2004 fiasco
  
• the unswingables INDIANA + W.VIRGINIA following the OH/VA influence
• Southwest sweep: all of Nevada, New Mexico, and Colorado
  
• No attrition in the border-line lake states: Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania
  
• and MISSOURI maintaining its role as single-state predictor

My Fellow Prisoners

In the midst of world markets reeling to all time lows and implications of a widening global recession, McCain rallies supporters as his "Fellow Prisoners":