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Apparently the folks at CBS News are as partisan as the right claims, because word has been leaked that they're saving the best part of the Couric-Palin interview for later in the race.

Politico suggests that this as-yet unaired clip consists of Couric asking Palin to discuss a major Supreme Court decision. After offering Roe v Wade, Couric asked her to discuss another.

There was no verbal fumbling with this particular question as there was with some others, the aide said, but rather silence.

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Awesome.

Chris Matthews had a rare hit when he referred to Sarah Palin's effect on the presidential race as being like "new car smell." Lots of hubbub at the outset followed by rapidly diminishing returns. Upon her nomination I commented that she would ultimately serve to fire up the base (as if they weren't already voting for McCain) and exactly no one else; Americans are unmatched for their ability to purge their short-term memories as soon as the next shiny object flutters by. The fact is that 99% of what happens during the campaign is like new car smell.

The Palin analogy might be more accurate than Matthews intended, though, given that "new car smell" is actually quite toxic.

I assume you've all seen this, but…McCain's campaign manager says that media will not have access to Sarah Palin (shocking!) until she is treated with "deference and respect." That would explain why her next interviewer was Sean Hannity, who will no doubt ask probing questions like "Does it hurt your feelings when liberals lie about you?"

I originally prepared a more substantive comment, but I'll condense it in the interest of efficiency: are you fucking kidding? There may not be precedent for a campaign with enough balls to explicitly state that the media lose access unless they agree to kiss the candidate's ass and promise not to ask any questions tougher than "Gee Sarah, is it hard to be so wonderful and important while raising five kids?"

Since the GOP has literally created an industry centered on making sure people (young, brown, or poor ones, anyway) can't vote, I think it is important for Ohioans to realize that a failure to produce certain forms of identification does not preclude voting.

According to our friends at the Franklin County (Columbus) Board of Elections, state law mandates:

Voters must bring identification to the polls in order to verify identity. Identification may include current and valid photo identification, a military identification, or a copy of a current utility bill, bank statement, government check, paycheck, or other government document, other than this reminder or a voter registration notification that shows the voter's name and current address. Voters who do not provide one of these documents will still be able to vote by providing the last four digits of the voter's social security number and by casting a provisional ballot. Voters who do not have any of the above forms of identification, including a social security number, will still be able to vote by signing an affirmation swearing to the voter's identity under penalty of election falsification and by casting a provisional ballot.

Note that, aside from the list of acceptable ID being far more expansive than you've been led to believe, voters without any identification can still vote provisionally via affirmation. I don't have a list of 50 states' laws in front of me, but nearly every state has provisional balloting rules which require little more than an affidavit that a voter is not lying about his or her identity.

In short, someone who tells you that you cannot vote is lying as long as you are registered.
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Oh, and no matter how actively involved in politics you happen to be, there's still a decent chance that you're not properly registered at your current address. Do it now.

Jeffrey Toobin, in what rapidly proved to be an understatement, called McCain's speech on Thursday "shockingly bad." Having finally forced myself to watch portions of it (in addition to the usual transcript-hunting) I lack the energy to talk about the specifics of his random fusillade of rhetorical anti-matter.

My reaction was simple and focused: if you get inspired by watching John McCain speak – truly, deeply inspired as a person – there is something wrong with you. You are the kind of person who, when really letting your hair down, has a couple of sugar-free Nilla Wafers and fat-free Cool Whip. You enjoy slices of white bread dipped in room temperature tap water. You have to water down your caffiene-free Diet Rite because it is too strong. You find Jay Leno's comedy funny but a little too edgy. You turned down Cher tickets because you don't like hard rock. Your collection of ties ranges from red to magenta. You read Family Circus.

And, apparently, you respond well to Crazy Teeth^tm.

In the past 5 days, among media, things I have seen on the interweb, and people with whom I have spoken, Sarah Palin has been compared to Theodore Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Ronald Reagan, Martin Luther King, Hillary Clinton, Margaret Thatcher, and Lyndon Johnson. She is, in short, the most amazing, incredible human being in the history of people. Tenured researchers at the University of Awesome have finally solved their field's historically unsolvable equation. The answer is Sarah Palin.

Not that the reaction has been hyperbolic or anything.

I'm sure these comparisons, lain upon someone her new acolytes never heard of five days ago, are well-grounded in reality. If anything they may not be going far enough.

She also reminds me of Ghandi, Abraham Lincoln, Sir Edmund Hillary, and legendary knuckleballer Phil Niekro. She runs faster than Usain Bolt. She can deadlift a 1974 Ford Ranchero. She can cure pleurisy with her touch. She appears on tortillas in El Salvador. She can make dinner with one hand while writing in Hittite cunieform with the other.

She declined to break the NFL single-game record for safeties out of respect for Fred Dryer.

She craps platinum ingots. Her penmanship has been described as unpretentious and legible.

She is not an American, she is America.

I don't like predicting things about politics, because in most cases politics are unpredictable. Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying or wildly overconfident.
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When I do make predictions, I'm very comfortable admitting when I missed the mark.

I knew who Sarah Palin was, but not in a million years did I consider her a credible VP pick.
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The few (very few) media outlets that predicted her selection in advance (or even identified her as a serious option) deserve credit, including Jack Kelly at RCP. I recall reading one or two other articles that nailed it, but unfortunately I can't recall them to give credit where it is clearly due.
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