1. Nate Silver is showing a significant bump for the Democrat’s after the DNC, much higher than the RNC’s bump.
Via NYT’s fivethirtyeight:
Electoral Vote Prediction
Barack Obama
314.2
+10.4 since Aug. 31
Mitt Romney
223.8
Animated Granholm .gif via HuffPo
Personally, I thought Jennifer Granholm’s speech was the best. She was one of the more rousing and animated speakers of the night.
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5. Factcheck.org had to aggregate their analysis of Obama’s and Biden’s speeches, because apparently they each didn’t have enough exaggerations and out-of-context quotes to warrant posts of their own. (Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney each had their own posts from the RNC previously on factcheck.org)
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6. As promised, song for Friday. This is seriously the best Gangnam Style mash-up I’ve seen yet:
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