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Elections are magical events for revealing all of our filters. As I stayed up late last night marveling that at one point less than 400 votes separated Obama and McCain in Missouri with more than 3.5 million votes cast there, one of the conservative talking heads on CNN made the comment that by any historical standards this was not a landslide win (agreed) and certainly not a mandate for left wing liberal policies. I suspect this particular commenter viewed anything left of the far right of the republican party as falling into that liberal bucket.

Are you following the polling data? McCain had a small bounce starting just before the last debate that had the republican hopeful projecting the fall of the Obama rocket. But it is looking more and more like something of a dead cat bounce. Here’s some cool info–