November 1, 2008
Obama has been ahead in the polls in both New Mexico and Colorado for weeks. Currently, as for RCP, Obama is up by 6.6 in Colorado and 7.3 in New Mexico, while pollster has the numbers at 7.1 and 9. All in all, good numbers for Obama. But they are numbers that aren’t taking into account people...
go to article »October 28, 2008
Senator Stevens of Alaska has been found guilty of violating ethics rules in accepting goods and services from friends and failing to report them. A federal jury of eight women and four men from the District of Columbia found that the 84-year-old Republican, who has represented Alaska in the Senate ...
go to article »October 27, 2008
Police have arrested two self-described white supremacists, Daniel Cowart and Paul Schlesselman, who had apparently hatched a plan to go on a massive killing spree of African Americans which they intended to cap off with the assassination of Barack Obama. They supposedly planned to kill 100 African ...
go to article »October 22, 2008
When something particularly outrageous is said in politics, you can usually count on Jon Stewart to pick it up and playfully skewer it. Given the abundance of outrageous comments since the last show, I expected Jon to dedicate one of his famous montages to the subject. He did not. Instead, he dedic...
go to article »October 21, 2008
Rep. Bachmann (R-MN) had a bright idea the other day; suggest on national television that members of Congress should be investigated by the media to see if they are “anti-American”. I mean, putting the small towns above everyone else and determining that certain parts of the country were...
go to article »October 20, 2008
The latest ads circulated by the yes-on-prop 8 forces in California (a movement funded largely from out-of-state pockets, especially Mormons) have created quite a stir because they seem to be in a murky gray area. Not between truth and misdirection, but between misdirection and outright lying. The a...
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Hello my name is Claudia and I’m addicted to YouTube. I’m subscribed to 20 channels and have watched around 10,000 videos in the two years since my addiction began. Naturally enough, my other addiction, politics, overlaps with my YT addiction. It is thus that I’ve been a witness to...
go to article »October 19, 2008
Even if you did not follow the latest debates with CNN you’ve undoubtedly heard about the latest gizmo of the technology obsessed network.Voters are given little dials to turn as they react favorably or unfavorably to different sections of the debate, and the average result streams live at the...
go to article »October 16, 2008
Lately many conservatives have been coming under fire ranging from grumpy press releases to downright threatening and obscene email for the cardinal crime of disagreeing with the McCain strategy (if you can call these past three weeks that), McCain’s VP pick, or even worse, if you decide McCai...
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The final presidential debate is coming up. Though there were supposed to be three debates on a wide range of topics, the events have gotten ahead of all of us and previous debates have centered on the economy. This debate, which was actually intended for economic and domestic issues, will of course...
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