Our Morning Roundup: Election Edition
Before you go to the polls, check out LL's endorsements.
D.C. Gov has something you need. A website where you can figure out where your polling place is. So go find out where to vote. They also have a voter guide.
Yes He Can. We put him up to it. And he's doing it! Arthur Delaney is running for a spot on a local advisory neighborhood commission in Ward 6. (Check City Desk all day for updates on his historic run).
New Columbia Heights offers its own endorsements -- with nods to Shadow Sen. Paul Strauss and Patrick Mara. And Obama.
The 42 explains how the electoral college works.
Wonkette describes Sarah Palin as a "doomed loser snowbilly."
Andrew Sullivan is still pissed about Palin not releasing her medical records.
WTOP wonders: Can Obama win the popular vote and lose the election?
Coates has a nice video of old ladies doing the "Obama Hustle."
Note to readers: We will have round-the-clock election coverage on City Desk, Sexist, and the rest of our blog universe. We'll have video! And we also got a twitter up and running! So check out the homepage throughout the day.
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11:40 am
Actually, Sullivan is on to something. As PR professional (I know, it's an oxymoron), the timing of the release is a red flag. In PR, you release good news early so it can get coverage over a length of time. For example, publicly traded companies release good news on a Monday or Tuesday so the trade press and dailies can pick it up, contact the company for comment, and report on it fully, and the markets have time to absorb it and hopefully drive your stock higher. With any luck, you can get reporters to do follow up so you maximize coverage and positive impact on your stock. They release bad news after the markets close on Friday, so reporters have little time to seek comment before execs go home for the weekend, and hope that nobody follows up on Monday. The fact that Palin released incomplete records (which she knew was far less than what the skeptics were looking for) the evening before polls opened suggests that she doesn't want to answer questions about what's not in the two pages she released. But in this case, it's not Friday and reporters aren't going to forget about it over the weekend. Essentially, she's thrown gas on the fire, which will just create more smoke...and where there's smoke, there's usually fire.