Peter Murmann

If you are not already on the edge of your seat, read this article before we know who is the next president. How smart is the American voter? The electorate as a whole may be wiser and more rational than any individual. By Larry M. Bartels (LA Times) One of the bestselling books of the 2008 election season has [Read More]

I wonder how long Carl Rove can continue peddling his “wisdom.” Frank Rich reports in the NYTimes: Once Obama wrested the nomination from Clinton by surpassing her in organization, cash and black votes, he was still often seen as too wimpy to take on the Republicans. This prognosis was codified by Karl Rove, whose punditry for [Read More]

If McCain comes back to win this election, it will be the story of the year. It seems like the people with the McCain campaign don’t believe in victory anymore. Report by: Jonathan Martin and Mike Allen and John F. Harris (Politico.com) With despair rising even among many of John McCain McCain told the Times that [Read More]

Once again the most useful piece of evaluation of the debate comes from the focus group run for Time.com. Amy Sullivan reports: In politics it is generally not considered a good sign when voters are laughing at you, not with you. And by the end of the third and last presidential debate, the undecided voters [Read More]

McCain has 27 days to find a better way to take on his opponent or he’ll be calling him Mr. President. —John Dickerson in Slate.com Click on more to read the analysis of how undecided voters reacted to the debate. They Liked Him, They Really Liked Him From TIME’s Amy Sullivan: As he did for the first presidential debate, Democratic [Read More]

It is to early to open up the champaign bottles, but at the least the trends is going into the right direction. I am going to buy a good bottle for November 4 and let’s hope the final numbers allow me to drink it.

<!– I did not see this live. But poor Penny Noonan, who initially was shocked by the Palin nomination (Oh, my God, now it is over) wrote this bizarre endorsement/non-endorsement of Palin. Palin the Populist Joe Biden was no match for “Joe Six-Pack.” By PEGGY NOONAN She killed. She had him at “Nice to meet you. Hey, can I call [Read More]

To test the picture quality of a Blue-Ray high definition TV video disc, I watched 3:10 to Yuma. This western, starring Russel Crow and Christian Bale, has beautiful landscape photography that is much sharper on Blue-Ray than anything I have seen on TV before. The film itself was pretty mediocre except for the last [Read More]

I thought that McCain was very weak during the Republican convention. He exceeded my expectation today. He was quite good in separating himself from Bush. I don’t agree with McCain and I want Obama to win the presidency. But today’s debate was a tie in my view. Once again MCain proved that he can speak [Read More]