Awesome:

Bush currently receives 51 percent among likely voters while Kerry gets 45 percent and independent Ralph Nader receives 1 percent. Among all registered voters, Bush holds a seven-point advantage.

By healthy margins, Bush continues to be seen as the stronger leader and better able than Kerry to keep the United States secure from terrorist attacks. On virtually every other issue and measure of character, Bush holds the advantage over his rival among registered voters -- findings that underscore the importance of the upcoming presidential debates to the Kerry campaign.

Kerry continues to be viewed unfavorably by a plurality of voters. Fewer than four in 10 voters -- 37 percent -- say they have a positive impression of him, while 42 percent have an unfavorable impression of him.

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This time it's former NJ Republican Senate candidate Doug Forrester -- the man who was defeated due to the last-minute substitution of Frank Lautenberg for Robert Torricelli -- and he's buying anti-Rather ads during Rather's broadcasts.

Oh, and the affiliates are sweating, too.

Excellent.

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I guess I have to.

Via MyPetJawa's blog round up...

Via Leather Penguin...

This dated article (May 28th-- old news, but if you hadn't heard, it's new news) stating that Washingtonienne and Wonkette are entertaining offers for a Playboy pictorial:

Jessica Cutler, author of the infamous DC Sex Blog Washingtoninenne, is in discussions with Playboy magazine to pose for a nude pictorial, The National Debate has confirmed. Ana Marie Cox spoke exclusively to The National Debate's Robert Cox (no relation) and confirmed that Playboy contacted Cutler earlier this week. The sex-obsessed Blogger is currently considering the offer which is said to include an additional offer for Ana Marix Cox. Cox says she has not been approached directly by Playboy about appearing in the pictorial but would "definitely consider it".

In related news, the celebrated magazine Model Railroading Enthusiast just offered me twenty clams to explain my process for making quick and dirty miniature lamp-posts.

I'll give you a hint, for free: Q-Tips, my friend. It's all about Q-Tips.

Update: Bill from INDC tells me Washingonienne already did Playboy. I guess this means no Wonkette-- although it does seem as though the price could be right in the future.

Man, I've got to do a better job with keeping up with pornography. And whorebloggers.

Definitely Not-Safe-For-Work Update Link: Say Anything blog actually posted Cutler's pictures. Remember, this is not safe for work.

I'm not even sure it's safe for home.

I'm having trouble comprehending that not a single one of you guys tipped me to this earlier.

What the fudge? How did this just slip by?

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Content Warning: The typical silly sex stuff I do here a lot. It's no worse than a Dennis Miller nightclub act, but still, you might want to hold off until you get home. more...

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And it's actually a little bit better among registered, 53-42.

KerrySpot has the sneak peak.

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Karol of Alarming News, who claims not to disfavor pajamas, will be heading off to Colorado to serve as Senate candidate Pete Coors' deputy press secretary.

Another "shadowy link" between "internet partisan political operatives" and the GOP for Josh Marshall to whine about.

Congratulations, Karol!

Make sure you get in touch with John "Back2Back" Elway.

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Dave from Garfield Ridge wants to know what's up with John Kerry sipping at his beer like a kitten at spoiled milk.

A different Dave, this one from an Undisclosed Location, points out this series of "candid, spontaneous beer-drinkin' photos with regular guys" and notes, "He takes three “sips” and makes one toast (after which he presumably takes another “sip”), yet the only change in the beer is the head goes away."

Oh, well. Sipping at his beer is, I guess, better than chugging the Chivas.

Correction: Actually, both Dave from Garfield Ridge and an entirely different Dave -- this Dave from an Undisclosed Location -- tipped me to this.

I had thought that both were the same guy.

It's getting a little confusing.

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Pakistan is so far denying it, and such denials have usually been accurate.

Still-- room for hope.

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That's not a joke. Nor is that my "twisting of their words," George Bush style (according to Jennifer Loven, I mean). That's the actual headline.

Windy City chuckles me up with this story from the Chicago Tribune (requires registration):

Lower rents could hurt poor

HUD may reduce housing subsidies

By William Grady and Antonio Olivo

Tribune staff reporters

Published September 27, 2004

Apartment costs seem to be trending flat to slightly higher these days for many renters.

But new calculations from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development say rents in the Chicago area will be mostly lower starting next month. And that could make life tougher for low-income families in need of assistance from the federal housing choice voucher program, according to critics, including Gov. Rod Blagojevich and Chicago Housing Authority officials.

"Especially for the larger bedroom units, it hurts families because it limits the areas they can get access to," said Meghan Harte, the CHA's managing director for housing vouchers.

At issue are new benchmark rents that HUD proposes to implement nationwide Friday.

The agency uses the benchmarks to determine the maximum subsidies that vouchers will provide for modest one-, two-, three- or four-bedroom apartments.

Housing choice vouchers generally are worth less when the benchmarks, called "fair market rents," are reduced.

Yes, but of course that's because the government needs to spend less in order to subsidize the rent. If the apartments have lower rents, and the government reduces the subsidy by the value of that reduced rent, how on earth have the poor been hurt?

As Windy City remarks (paraphrased), the writers of the story seem to be confusing reduced rents, which help the poor, with reduced dependency on government subsidies, which hurts the Democratic Party as well as its various political-advocacy auxilliaries.

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Introduces Bush in Colorado as a man who "knows how to make the right calls when the pressure is on."

It's just too sweet.

Update! Daisy Cutter points out that this would be the perfect time to plug Football Fans For Truth.

Yeah, I remember the first time someone threw a football to me, too. I was seven, and too I flinched from it like it was a french kiss from Ron Jeremy.

In the ensuing years, I've learned to keep my eyes open. That goes for both football and Ron Jeremy soul-kisses.

More embarassing photos at Football Fans For Truth.

By the way: If that picture doesn't show, as it didn't for me, click on it and hit Show Picture.

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