The Buffalo News : Opinion

WASHINGTON — Talk radio lost this federal election in two big ways. Its candidate, Republican John McCain, got creamed. And its most dedicated enemies, who want to trim talk radio’s sails, were massively empowered.

WASHINGTON — Unfortunately for Sen. John McCain’s legacy and the mood of the country, the Republican presidential candidate wound up his quest with moves straight out of the Karl Rove smear-and-fear playbook.

WASHINGTON — Whatever they are telling you in the last eight days of the campaign, those House incumbents strolling to their inevitable reelection are not feeling your pain. The recession is for you, but not for them.

Many of us came to work at The News Tuesday afternoon with all-too-vivid memories of our Election-Night experience eight years before — on the Election Night that wouldn’t end.

No matter how it all turns out, Tuesday is going to be a history-making night.

Douglas Turner saw his first newspaper composing room 51 years ago when headlines were still set in a way invented by Gutenberg in 1439.

WASHINGTON — It may be moot and it certainly is presumptuous, but I would be less than honest with readers if I did not say what I believe: Making Hillary Rodham Clinton the secretary of state in Barack Obama’s administration would be a mistake.

WASHINGTON — Barack Obama, poor guy, would just like to go out for a walk.

As the fires burned across Southern California this weekend, the all-news radio station I listen to kept running tape of a guy advising people about what to put in their “grab-and-go” boxes. He was from some insurance association, so — big surprise — his focus was on insurance documents.

Once again in these post-election days, New York State Republicans are retreating behind battle lines to lick their many wounds.

It’s getting serious now — crunch time for one of the most compelling elections of our time.

If you watched Barack Obama and John McCain pummel each other during Wednesday’s presidential debate, you know that each accused the other of that horror of horrors, the politically unpardonable, the antithesis of all for which democracy stands — “negative advertising.”