[Update: Obama's meeting with McNerney today!]

I just got of the phone with a super happy gal at Jerry McNerney's office who confirmed that he's meeting with Clinton right now.  I called to let her know that I'd hit the streets for McNerney and would be proud if he would let Clinton know that his supporters feel that Obama is their candidate and that Clinton is no longer in a position to win the nomination without hurting the party's chances of winning in November.

The nice woman (again, she was really sweet) told me that they are glad to hear from folks and that they will be keeping track of who calls and what they have to say about this meeting.

Let McNerney -- who owes much to DailyKos -- know that it's time to get behind Obama!

Here's the phone number:
925-833-0643

And here's other contact info

According to Ben Smith, Clinton puts up a flag for over-zealous supporters who've been suggesting they'd rather vote for McCain than Obama if Hillary doesn't get the nomination.

My grandpa is one of those Hillary supporters making such suggestions - but not as political posturing, but because he thinks the politicians who he's supported in the past (financial support for the Clintons) would not have been opportunistically misleading to him and his synagogue members about Obama's positions on Israel (i.e., "he'll talk with Iran, among other things, which will lead to limiting Israel's power to maintain and defend itself" ... and so on).

So should I email him with Clinton's statement (below the fold) or will it just piss him off and push him over the edge?  Are you going to email your Clinton supporting family members?

Mark Penn, head "it's not Hillary talking so it's okay to say things that are mildly offensive or relatively inaccurate if it helps my candidacy" surrogate has been saying for sometime that the states which Obama has been wining "do no matter" for a myriad of reasons most of which are relatively foolish.

So I thought to myself, I wonder which of those "meaningless" states Bush won in 2004?"  

Electoral-vote.com will tell me, and I'll show my fellow Kossacks with fun pictures!

Just got this email from the UC Berkeley political science department list-serve, thought it would be prefect for a Kosack!

JOB ANNOUNCEMENT
Special Projects Director
United States Senator Barbara Boxer
San Francisco, California
October 2007

Did the Simpsons backdown when Fox News threatened to sue them? (for this).

HELL NO! (no, no, no)

This was the best episode I've seen is years!  

"Then I had this crazy dream that my family were all just cartoon characters and that our success led to some crazy propaganda network called Fox News."  --Bart Simpson

I'd never heard of them until now, but apparently young, rich, moderately conservative (wah?), machiado guzzling suburbanites have been recently referred to as "Starbucks Republicans."

This gives a bad name to all the self-respecting suburban caffiene addicts - these people are not representative of Starbucks goers or suburbanites. Isn't there a word for those few wannabe hipster-ish, young, wealthy independents? Oh yeah, YUPPIES!

Cross posted at unclezeb.blogspot.com

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Go Bears!

Where will you go to find the results of tomorrow's election?

I'll be out at a polling place all day monitoring, but when I come home, other than DailyKos, where should I go to find the election results and exit poll data and other useful information as the polls begin to close?

The squirrels are attacking in Mountain View, Ca so the park rangers are going to start killing them!  

Poll: is that ethical?

NO!

I'm not an animal rights activist, but those dang squirrels are so CUTE!

FREEP THIS POLL! [http://www.nbc11.com/news/9958118/detail.html]

And vote yes on Prop 89, getting money out of politics is the most important thing we can do.

Have you ever wondered which organizations support or reject particular ballow iniciatives in California? Here's the short list for voters wondering how to vote, see inside for details on all organizations that make their endorsements public!
[EDIT: this only includes a--very--biased sample of the endorsements. For the full list please visit http://www.igs.berkeley.edu/library/htBallotRec2005NOV.html]