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Ta-Nehisi Coates - Ta-Nehisi Coates is a senior editor for The Atlantic, where he writes about culture, politics, and social issues for TheAtlantic.com and the magazine. He is the author of the memoir The Beautiful Struggle. More

Born in 1975, the product of two beautiful parents. Raised in West Baltimore—not quite The Wire, but sometimes ill all the same. Studied at the Mecca for some years in the mid-’90s. Emerged with a purpose, if not a degree. Slowly migrated up the East Coast with a baby and my beloved, until I reached the shores of Harlem. Wrote some stuff along the way.
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Effete Liberals Pt. 2

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Oct 29 2008, 5:28 PM ET Comment

My man Yglesias knows what I'm talking about:

The credulity of the press regarding John McCain's Pennsylvania gambit is remarkable. Pollster.com has Obama up by 10.7 points in Pennsylvania. McCain's lead is smaller than that in Georgia, West Virginia, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Indiana and Arizona while McCain is currently losing in Colorado, Virginia, Ohio, Florida, Missouri, North Carolina, and Nevada. Think about that.

McCain's only chances of winning are either that the polling is badly wrong for some reason, or else that some kind of shocking external event -- perhaps a huge terrorist attack -- massively scrambles the race. But based on the information available, he's just hopelessly far behind and there's no use pretending otherwise.




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