A New York ad agency executive presumably hopes to Make You Think, or possibly Stimulate A Debate, with this imagined ethnicity-switching of Obama and McCain. Go New York ad agency executives! [Guanabee]
The ground operation: the Obama campaign says it knocked on 1.8m doors over the last weekend in Pennsylvania alone. [Marc Ambinder]
A free Starbucks coffee in return for voting? Or if that's not good enough, may I suggest a sex toy?
Factchecking the campaigns' closing arguments: Obama made promises he won't be able to keep, and McCain/Palin launched attacks they won't be able to substantiate. [Factcheck.org]
Obama seeks a middle way on the pressing issue of baggy trousers that reveal your underpants (some cities have passed laws against what they see as a surface indication of gang activity): "I think people passing a law against people wearing sagging pants is a waste of time... Having said that, brothers should pull up their pants." [The Page]
Christopher Hitchens on McCain's "shameful slur" against Rashid Khalidi. "iIf Barack Obama was looking for a Palestinian friend, he could not have chosen any better. But perhaps John McCain has decided that he doesn't need any Palestinian friends and neither do we..." [Slate]
Never mind the rumour about Bill Ayers writing Barack Obama's book -- did Bill Ayers even write Bill Ayers's own book? Probably yes, but this blog post is still amusing. [Ben Smith]
