Infomercials, Tennis Masters, Mark Begich and the latest Ted Stevens poll

Sorry for the silence yesterday but it was the magician’s b’day and that takes preference over stuff like historical US elections, and historical achievements by British tennis players, and historical infomercials by history making presidential candidates with history making amounts of money to burn.

Anyway, normal service is now resumed, so let's get into that historical infomercial. Now, don’t get me wrong I want BO and his band of merry Democrats to thump those horribly corrupt, self-serving election stealers out of the park, but c’mon that infomercial was lame. Of course the magician loved it, as I’m sure every girl in the country did, except the ones scratching backward Bs on their faces, but it was about as hard hitting as Gone With The Wind.

Then again, BO could hardly have kicked off with a black power salute and cut away to press clips of the LA riots, and Rodney King getting his head kicked in. The point is he’s winning so if he wants to force 30 mins of Cramer vs. Cramer onto the nation he can, it’s up to the other bloke to pull something dramatic out of his canvass shopping bag.

If you missed it and you‘re a girl you can catch it here...

Other than that, it’s good to see that the first poll since the Republican’s corrupter-in-chief Ted Stevens was found bang to rights, shows Mark Begich with an 8 pt lead. We realised that we've only ever run pictures of the old evil doer Stevens, so for a refreshing change, just below, you can see a picture of the nice young man who's destined to become Alaska's next representative in the United States Senate, ladies and gentlemen I give to you Mark Begich.

I was starting to worry about our cousins up in Alaska, having had to suffer through a detailed introduction to the woman they elected to govern them, the thought of a convicted felon being elected as their senate representative would’ve been a bridge too far. All hail the sensible heads of the Alaskan electorate!

In other presidential polls out today, BO seems to be holding firm in all the key swing states, and PA which for some unknown reason was chosen as the place McCuster will make his last stand, shows BO holding a solid high single digit lead. Five days out that's gotta be good.

Finally, I have to give a shout out to Andy Murray who’s currently competing in the Paris Masters, aiming to become the first tennis player in history to win three back to back Masters Series events in the same season. Previously winning in Cincinnati and Madrid, he arrived in Paris having successfully defended his St. Petersburg open title. Today he moved into the last eight by beating Verdasco and extending his winning streak to 14 since losing to Federer in the final of the US Open...get in there son!