by Shawn D. Akers
The secret to selling bad ideas is to make sure they are the only ones available. This is how totalitarian regimes take power. Whether it was Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany or Vladimir Lenin in Communist Russia, the pattern is largely the same – totalitarian dictators come to power by enshrining themselves [...]

On this day in 1967, Che Guevara, the Argentine communist, was executed by the Bolivian Army. He and his pals had invaded Bolivia a few days earlier in hope of establishing a communist dictatorship. [At left, an Obama campaign office in Texas proudly displays an icon of Che Guevara on the Cuban flag.]
While working for [...]

Stocks down another 7 percent just today.  Amazing, but true: the Dow has fallen 40 percent since last October.  40 percent.
GOPNation Average…Obama 49.6, McCain 42.4, Obama gains 1.2 since yesterday.  After two days of modest McCain gains, Obama took some of those gains back today.
The RNC should be running this in each battleground:

Good morning.
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Today’s polls
GOPNation Average…Obama 49.6, McCain 42.4, Obama gains 1.2 since yesterday.

Components of GOPNation Average, October 9, 2008:
Daily Kos / Research 2000 Tracking…51-41, no change
Rasmussen Daily Tracking…50-45, Obama loses one
Reuters/Zogby…48-44, Obama gains 2.
Gallup Daily Tracking…52-41 no change
Diageo / Hotline Tracking…47-41, Obama gained 5

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Other daily tracking polls may or may not be added to the GOPNation Average [...]