Paul Canning hits New Hampshire for Obama

NB: New Hampshire's a swing state.

He's a union organiser from the 'International' Union of Painters and Allied Trades in New England. (Groan on the 'international'). And, yes, I'm a little intrigued to check out the relationship with moi's history ...

You go Paul!

[Oh, and here's the Union blog post which alerted me]

Arianna quotes CP Snow

"facts are sacred ... but comment is free".

Another British export.

More of Arianna Huffington at Advertising Age.

Music: Yoko Ono 'Walking On Thin Ice'

This was #1 on the US dance charts in 2003, when Yoko was 70yo (nb: avoid all mixes). On the extended 12", Lennon can be heard remarking "I think we've just got your first No. 1, Yoko." The guitar is Lennon and this was his last creative act.

"I knew a girl who tried to walk across the lake / 'course it was winter when all this was ice / That's a hell of a thing to do, you know / They say the lake is as big as the ocean / I wonder if she knew about it?"

Honesty in backdrops

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After years of seeing 'diversity', pearls and pants-suits in backdrops to male politicians it's nice to see some honesty coming from the Tories.

Pie chart

HT: Etre

This just in ...

HT: Toby

Barack in the Virginia Rain

This really is an astonishing speech, given in the rain in Fredericksburg, rural Virginia. A state which hasn't gone Dem. in the Presidential for over forty years. 26' of Barack worth your time to get an intense flavour of the stump. The intensity in his face is something else.

Only The Daily Mirror and The Guardian picked this up.

Music: Stevie Wonder 'Superstition'

Live on Sesame Street from 1972.

US election: where to look

Forget the BBC - I may have mentioned the pointlessness of them as a news source before ...

Here are some bookmarks I have, if you're interested:

memeorandum - brings all the news and blog sources together in a nice, tidy cascade. We definitely need something exactly like this in UK politics coverage.

The Huffington Post - Top Liberal news source

DRUDGE REPORT - Top Conservative news source

FiveThirtyEight.com - what's happening in the polls and the electoral vote

marbury - a generally spot-on UK journos take

Michael Tomasky - guardian.co.uk - about the only other UK journo worth reading

Mudflats - the best Palin news, and from Alaska

The Daily Dish By Andrew Sullivan
Crooks and Liars
Ben Smith's Blog - Politico.com
Countdown with Keith Olbermann - MSNBC.com
Rachel Maddow
Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com

And for the online election - techPresident – blogs

And for fun - Wonkette: The D.C. Gossip

Anything I'm missing here?