Morning Roundup — Monday
October 13, 2008 at 8:50 am by Wayne GarciaPolitics and media headlines on a Monday morning. What could be better than that? Daily updates in the box to the right, that’s what:
- Chicago considers forming a “gay-friendly” high school.
- Krugman wins the Nobel Prize for Economics.
- Weekend newspaper endorsements: Obama 15, McCain 0. (That gives Obama a two touchdown-plus lead.)
- 14 presidential candidates on the Florida ballot; getting on just takes a meeting you dub your “national convention” and 27 members in your political party. Trust me, the Whore Party will be ready for 2012, you betcha.
- Watch for McCain “push-back” on TV to start around Oct. 20, for early voting.
- The felon vote.
- Other than on Amendment 2, voters have little awareness of other constitutional amendments on the ballot.
- Newspaper web advertising revenue growth “slows to a crawl.”
- Tampa Tribune endorses two incumbents and Blair challenger Kevin Beckner.
- Another senseless Internet-related death.
- Yeah, there’s another tropical storm wayyyyy the hell out there.
- Democratic glee at the Republican dismay. It’s called schadenfreude.
- Kristol: McCain should fire his campaign.
- Washington politicians, lobbyists shielded Wall Street from liability for bad loans.
- The “Barack Osama” absentee ballot in upstate New York.
- McCain’s web-only Ayers ad is a “pants on fire” lie.
- McCain’s fans are turning on him; booing him for saying they didn’t need to be afraid of Obama:
