A recent article in Technology Review examined the brains behind the Obama campaign’s (new) media strategy, providing a fascinating look at the foresight and creativity and just plain smarts that drove the advertising, campaigning, social-networking, etc. that helped him to win the Democratic nomination and that now is continuing in the general election. Regardless of field of [...]

I’m beginning to think that the hooligan-like crowds that Palin has been stirring up are a displacement of McCain’s own rage that he must be having a supremely difficult time controlling. In the first debate it came across as irritating forced smiles he must have learned from his anger management advisor (that will have to [...]

Call it a Freudian slip, brain fart, whatever, but the latest verbal gaffe by McCain today is worthy of analysis:
Still living Vietnam, or is this what he really thinks about his fellow Americans?

This flow chart (from adennak at daily kos) encapsulates pretty accurately Palin’s debating dynamics, although it doesn’t include the two winks to the TV audience that she did (unless those count under “Do something really cute”):