Hope everybody is having a nice Sunday. Just wanted to pass along two links of interest.

First, Ed Kilgore over at the Democratic Strategist posted a brief review/response to my Virginia analysis. I get the sense that Ed is slightly more bullish about Obama's prospects in the Old Dominion than I - and he raises some very salient points. I wish I had thought of them!!!!

Second, in regards to my comment about MSM caricatures of average voters - you can check out a particularly obnoxious one by Jacob Weisburg, who argues that it is racism, nothing more and nothing less, that could prevent Obama from winning in November. This is what I was talking about on Friday, only much worse. MSMers might frequently revert to caricatures of average voters, but hardly ever do I see what I saw from Weisburg, whose ignorant analysis is saturated with condescension.

Occasionally, I receive emails from people who argue what Weisburg asserts. In response, I kindly inform them where they can stuff it. I explain to them that I come from and reside in Western Pennsylvania (a supposed bastion of supposed anti-Obama supposed racism), that they don't know what they are talking about, and that their arrogant presumption to crudely categorize my friends, family, and neighbors has earned them my just rebuke.

But this is a family blog, so I'm not going to do that here.

-Jay Cost