Too Progressive

You know the Republican party is in trouble when John McCain only leads Barack Obama by six points in one of the most reliably red states in the country. According to a Rasmussen Reports poll released today McCain would beat Obama by a 50-44 margin in Mississippi. In 2004 George Bush won the state by a 20 point margin defeating John Kerry 60-40 and a Democrat hasn’t won the state since Jimmy Carter defeated Gerald Ford in 1976.

Now obviously this doesn’t mean (nor do I honestly believe) that Obama will carry the state, but to be so far out and only trail McCain in Mississippi by six points, I’d say Obama has a healthy shot at swiping the state from Republicans in November!

 Virginia presidential and vice presidential polling [Not Larry Sabato and Democratic Central]

How many cops does it take to monitor a clean energy rally? [The Green Miles]

No surprise here: Thelma Drake votes against renewable energy and jobs [VB Dems]

Senator Jim Webb appears on Letterman [Raising Kaine]

Have a great weekend everyone!

I’ll be calling Comcast within the next few days to have them come collect their cable boxes and cancel my subscription.

Via The Boston Herald:

CN8 has fired veteran TV journalist Barry Nolan for publicly protesting the decision by the local Emmy Awards to honor Fox News blowhard Bill O’Reilly.

Nolan tells MediaBiz he was fired Tuesday following a two-week, unpaid suspension.

“I knew going in that there was serious risk that I’d lose my job,” Nolan said yesterday, “but nobody likes it when people tell them to stifle, not even Edith Bunker.”

Not only that, but Comcast also decided to take MSNBC off the air in Oregon.  According to Comcast, this was MSNBC’s decision, but given the fact that Keith Olbermann decided to address the situation on tonight’s episode of Countdown, I somehow find the Comcast explanation extremely hard to believe.

And really, the only question left now is who will Obama pick as his running mate.

Ooooops! Wow, just wow.