Needlenose

Tip of the ‘Nose to Game Buddy:

Ben & Jerry have created “Yes Pecan!” ice cream
flavor for Obama.
 
 For George W. they asked for suggestions from
 the public.
 Here are some of their favorite responses:
 
 Grape Depression
 The Housing Crunch
 Abu Grape
 Cluster Fudge
 Nut’n Accomplished
  Iraqi Road
 Chock ‘n Awe
 WireTapioca
 Impeach Cobbler
 Guantanmallow
 imPeachmint
 Heck of a Job, Brownie!
 Neocon Politan
 RockyRoad to Fascism
 The Reese’s-cession
 Cookie D’oh!
 Nougalar Proliferation
 Death by Chocolate… and Torture
 Freedom Vanilla Ice Cream
 Chocolate Chip On My Shoulder
 Credit Crunch
  Mission  Pecanplished
 Country Pumpkin
 Chunky Monkey in Chief
 WMDelicious
 Chocolate Chimp
 Bloody Sundae
 Caramel Preemptive Stripe
 and…
I broke the law and am responsible for the deaths of
 thousands . . .with nuts

Statue built in Tikrit in honor of GW Bush, or rather, Bush’s shoe thrower.

Via AP:

The percentages aren’t final yet, but it looks like it’s a six-point spread with Obama beating McCain 52% to 46%. In terms of delegate count the current count stands at 349-163. If current trends hold, MO’s 11 delegates will go to McCain and NC’s 15 will go to Obama, for a total of 364-174 (for the record, on the DailyKos vote prediction contest, I pulled out of my ass predicted 365-173 — so suck on that Nostradamus!)

In the next few days, the talk will inevitably go to the nebulous concept of mandate. The Republicans, naturally, will be grasping at anything that can bring that into question (never mind the fact that Bush claimed one after beating Kerry by a mere 51%-48%). Since it’s hard to argue with the reality of population and delegate counts, we are certain to hear arbitrary metrics like the proportion of red vs. blue states (there are unconfirmed reports that Tom Brokaw was taking that one out for a spin this morning). This might have probably held more water four years ago:

But even that’s turned weak this time around:

Nevertheless, you can bet that the total land-mass argument will be trotted out, to which we submit this counterpoint:

Beware the kiss of death.

2000:

2008:

Oh dear.