While the McCain campaign is equally shameless, Barack Obama is beginning to show that he is no novice when it comes to slinging political mud.
It is sad to see yet another very successful independent blog being absorbed into what is essentially the mainstream digital media.
With the best of intentions, true independence can be diminished by the needs of the new parent. Something Possum will have to guard against.
Previous visitors and participants on Possum Pollytics comment pages will notice the registration requirements on the new blog which add yet another level of basic data sharing.
September 11, 2008 – 1:48 pm
Welcome to the new and improved Pollytics - now powered by Crikey.
The first thing you might notice is that this is actually a proper Wordpress system, so dont freak right out by thinking that this place is run off the Crikey site system - it's all new and spiffy and decked out for blogging.
The proper launch is next week, so that's when everything starts working fully.
Over on the right you might notice a few spiffy, charty type things. They're all clickable and will take you through to specific pages dealing with each topic. There's Pollytrack which we all know, the Chart Dump is where all the Federal polling data fit to print is available, the US election still deals with Intrade, the Long View is an interactive history of the two party preferred vote going back to 1985 and the State maps and data graphics take you through to where various State based polling data is available.
Make sure you read the moderation policy – it explains the natural order of things.
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Barack Obama might eventually try to pretend arms length from the Democratic Party September 2008 website The Next Cheney, however his Alaska Mythbusters group gives the game away.Bikini-wearing, gun-toting Palin viral photo fake
The Obama for America team has a Fighting the Smears webpage which selectively lists smears for his campaigners to then knock down.
It has an interesting piece of editing posted:
Which sort of begs the question as to whether this team is actually trying to foster some of these wayout theories in order give him underdog status and the sympathy vote.
Because it seems that the only demographic that Obama consistently dominates is single American female registered voters where his personal support runs between 54-60% over the last three months.
Palin graphic found at The Next Cheney
With climate change beginning to cause warmer temperatures and lower rainfall, snakes will perhaps become more prevalent in our gardens from now on.
Please remember that all native snakes are protected species and that the brown snake is probably responsible for most of the reported deaths from snake-bite in New South Wales.
If you see a snake leave it well alone.
If you find one in your house, note where it is situated and immediately call WIRES on 6628 1898 or the Northern Rivers Wildlife Carers on 0407 965 092 or alternatively phone the local police to assist with finding someone to remove the snake to a safe area.
