1)http://store.theonion.com/the-sports-team-from-my-area-p-83.html

2) This compares sharply with Rick Reilly's experience picking fantasy football with Obama:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/story?section=magazine&id=3653401

Erie is in very northwest Pennsylvania, closer to Cleveland than to Pittsburgh. (It's not that far from the Ohio/PA border.) The Indians have more than a few fans there, too.

I'd give her a pass on this. I don't think you can see eastern Pennsylvania from western Pennsylvania.

Now I'm really confused. I've been relying on James Carville for my Pennsylvania geography... Pittsburg in the west, Philadelphia in the east, and Alabama in the middle.

That is 1/100th as good as the gem from John Kerry in the 2004 race. Speaking to voters in Michigan:

"I was smart enough not to pick a choice between the Falcons and the, well, you know, all those other teams out there. I just go for Buckeye football, that's where I'm coming from."

Gold, pure gold.

Not her fault. Handlers do 90% of her wordplay, except paragraph structure. she would be hard pressed to conjure up an original reference to a non-hockey sport, other than snow machine racing.

"Failin spoke in eerie." What else? It's the patois of poopyheads.

Thanks for the memory, Butch. If we're bringing up irrelevant mishaps from losers in past elections, don't forget that Bob Dole fell off a stage in 1996.

There are going to be some mighty sad faces in stumptown if McPalin pulls out a win.

I can't give this DITZ a pass on anything she says. McCain showed America what his level of decision making was when he selected her as VP. In the years past the VP pick was a mood point. In this election it have tremendous weight attached. She is really bad news this hillbilly. Last night on CNN they were interviewing her on the campaign bus as it moved through the night. It was the best HORROR show on Halloween. They reminded me of the Adams Family. Lets pray Obama pulls this one off. I fear for my country. Eight years with this stupid a-hole....we need a brain in the white house not CHARLIE CHAPLIN and a VALLEY GIRL/slash/
HILLBILLY

There are going to be some mighty sad faces in stumptown if McPalin pulls out a win.

Zogby has McCain ahead for the single day Friday part of his poll. Could that be a Halloween prank?

No doubt it is closer than most D's care to admit, as the closer closes and as Barack tries to run out the clock. He faded in the Primaries against Hillary, remember.

Barack no doubt hopes the conversation does not go deep regarding his illegal campaign contributions from his illegal alien Auntie. I am sure that was the only campaign contribution that was not fully checked out.

Could Barack lose?

Nah... not possible. Everybody I know voted for him, some multiple times.

Earth to Tensk: A single line of text? We pray it's newfound brevity and not carpal tunnel?

My New Year's Resolution: only read Tenske if it's fewer than three run-on sentences.

Harry,

Everybody I know SAY they voted for him (me included, when pollsters call), but not all of them did. It has much less to do with race than it does with risk.

I'm not voting for Obama because he's a radical lefty, despite his typical Democratic campaign pretending otherwise,
But I wonder, is it OK to vote FOR Obama because he is black, but NOT OK to vote AGAINT him for the same reason?