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The best retelling of the story of Torpedo Three, Six and Eight I've ever seen is in the Herman Wouk novel, War and Remembrance and is largely repeated in the miniseries of the novel that ABC created and put on the air in 1988-1989. There are videos on YouTube showing highlights from Episode III, which deals with the battle of Midway, and tells the story of the three torpedo squadrons in some detail. I don't know if I'm allowed to post a link from YouTube, but if you search for War and Remembrance and Midway, or Episode III, you should be able to find them.

Barone disagrees, thinks that Coleman will eke it out, in spite of the precincts outstanding in the Twin Cities and Duluth. He also said we won’t know until tomorrow morning. And then come the lawsuits.

Jeez, I hope he’s right.

I’m sorry folks, I’m afraid this one is gone too. (And I donated to Coleman. Twice.)

Over 20 % of the vote left in Hennipin county; that’s another 20,000 vote edge to the disgraceful Franken. And he’ll get about another 9 or 10 thousand edge from St. Louis county in the northeast.

There just aren’t enough “Red” precincts left to offset that, unless there are some big “Red” areas of those two counties I don’t know about.

NH and ME have not yet officially closed. Only votes counted are from tiny towns that voted early this morning, like Dixville Notch, or Doxville Nitch, or whatever it is.

You guys are all taking this the wrong way; LiMieux is 100% right.

No need for Democrats to show up and vote, it’s a lock to the skies.

I repeat: no need for Democrats to show up tomorrow.

To put it succinctly: no.

The way I interpret this Nadler comment: they know he’s in trouble with older Jews in Florida, so they’re sending Jewish Democrats out to try to rally the ghost of FDR.

Nadler HAS to say something like this, doesn’t he? He can’t admit the truth, can he: that Obama agrees with Wright. Always has, always will.

PEW “final” poll says Obama 49-42 among likely voters, and 52-46 with leaners included.

http://people-press.org/report/468/obama-leads-mccain-in-final-days

But that ISN’T the real news here.

Just 5 days ago, their poll said Obama 53-38 among likely voters.

Including PEW’s usually rancid Democrat oversample, McCain has gained 7 points in the last 5 days. (Through yesterday.)

Regardless of the lead they assert, this confirms that McCain is closing ground...fast.

Don't worry about it, the Star-Tribune's Minnesota poll is notorious for being off by 5-10% in favor of the Democrats in just about every statewide poll it conducts.

See this article from 6 years ago on the old RCP, before it became politically correct, for some details:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/Commentary/com-11_11_02_SJ.html

In 2004, the Minnesota Poll has Kerry winning the state by 8; he won by 3.

The only time they were close in recent memory was the Senate race from 2 years ago, when the last poll had Klobuchar winning by 21%, and she won by 20%. I suspect that's because that's the only recent election that the Democrats were dominant in, so there was no reason for them to slant the poll.