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Amanda Carpenter reported that MSNBC has already called Pennsylvania for Obama... here's the reason why Fox News had not. (They now have...)

Michael Barone when asked by Brit Hume why they had not - was due to something called "WPE".

It stands for "within precinct error" and means the difference between the exit polls and the actual vote count.

Barone said, shockingly - "WPE is running as high as 11% in positive numbers for Obama."

Meaning exit polls mean zip... which we had been telling you all this time.

As of 8pm EST...

No states have jumped the board from 2004. McCain has Kentucky, W. Virginia, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee...

Obama has Vermont, Maine, New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, DC... and as of 8:13pm--New Hampshire!

TYPE                       Current                    McCain                Obama
Capital Gains               15%                      15%                       20%
Dividends                    15%                      15%                       20%
Income/Payroll  (High)   35%                     35%                     43-45%
Estate Tax                    45%                     15%                       45%
Corporate Tax               35%                     25%                       35%
(...from CNN this morning.)

Why does any of it matter?

Notice Obama raises Capital Gains 5%? THAT is a tax increase he says you're not going to have to pay... unless you cash in a bond, sell a house, start using you're 401k, begin retirement, liquify an asset because you need the cash. Now 5% more of it is going to HIM. For THE ONE to determine how it should be used.

How 'bout those Obamian increases in Income/Payroll taxes? I was publicly disputed with on television the other day in relationship to the percentage rate where I used the 45% figure - though the Obama camp has secretly been using that number for weeks in their projections. So depending on WHO is telling the truth you will now be paying 43-45% if you make above 70k, 120k, 150k, 200k, or 250k. (And you do realize that 45% of 70k - essentially takes your net usuable take home--JUST FROM TAXES--down to 35k for the year.) Feel rich?

How about the Estate Tax that punished your loved ones if you wish to leave them the family farm, shoe shop, dry cleaners, diner, etc? McCain's plan would require you to pay only 15% of your after death taxes, Obama wants to suck the marrow clean at 45%. Gluttony is a sin! But this is a sin that hurts your family for YEARS to come.

Ed Morrissey will tee it up, and I will attempt to knock it stiff. The Election less than 18 hours away from polls opening, Ed and I will likely hit all the good stuff to hit in the last 48 hours... like:

Obama's illegal Auntie that was asked to cough up $260 for his campaign - when she was living in the public housing projects.

McCain's poll numbers tighten. And historic levels of undecideds still plague the pollsters.

And much much more...

It is the most viewed video on YouTube related to the campaign of 2008. Over 11 million people have viewed it. Over 35,000 people have rated it 4.5 stars. I doubt Senator Obama will see it... but he sure darn well should...

It could NOT be said better than the estimable opinion of Ed Morrissey:

It’s interesting to see how the country that Barack Obama would have abandoned two years ago reacts to the idea of him leading the nation that liberated Iraq.  Unsurprisingly, most of those interviewed worried that Obama wouldn’t be able to stand up to the dimunitive genocidal lunatic to their east!

AND...

The Iraqis apparently understand global and regional politics better than Barack Obama. They certainly understand military strategy and tactics better than Obama.  They understand best of all what would have happened if Bush had followed Obama’s advice in 2007 rather than fighting the terrorists and securing Iraq.

...word!

So let's argue theoretically that a major news portal in the old media has a video tape that shows John McCain donning a set of sheets and dancing around flaming crosses... What's the bet that even if the tape had been given to the media agency with a request not to show it - that it would remain unseen?

So why would the newspaper remain silent while possessing video footage of  Barack Obama singing the praises of a "klansmen" from the middle east?

Camp McCain knows it would get the shaft if the press had something nearly as tasteless and reviling in its history. No wonder they're steamed:

"A major news organization is intentionally suppressing information that could provide a clearer link between Barack Obama and Rashid Khalidi," said McCain campaign spokesman Michael Goldfarb. " . . . The election is one week away, and it's unfortunate that the press so obviously favors Barack Obama that this campaign must publicly request that the Los Angeles Times do its job -- make information public."

Even though I like him as the new James Bond, Daniel Craig's brain is so lame--when he speaks--he makes me wanna throw up a little bit in my mouth...

When asked by Parade magazine:

I finally ask this British actor a deeply American question: “Who do you think would be the better James Bond—Barack Obama or John McCain?”

Craig doesn’t hesitate. “Obama would be the better Bond because—if he’s true to his word—he’d be willing to quite literally look the enemy in the eye and go toe-to-toe with them.

I guess if you mean by "look them in the eye, and go toe to toe with them", "sit down with them without preconditions" then you may be right.

But come on Barack's never jumped out of an airplane, he's never been actually tortured, and the most death that Daniel Craig has ever come close to seeing are the stuntmen who keep biting it filming his stunt scenes on his behalf.

PLEASE... John McCain flew fighter jets, had several successful missions, got shot down by the enemy, and tortured for six years!!!

His shoulder blades were snapped like saltine crackers and they beat him into unconsciousness repeatedly.

Daniel Craig may think Barack's a tough guy... but that's just because they both would love to believe they've played one on TV.

McCain's been there, done that, and understands the real sacrifice in doing so.