November 16, 2008
The election of Barack Obama is historic in many ways, most significantly in the progression along the troubled history of race in the United States. On Tuesday, Americans turned out in record numbers to give Obama a decisive win and vault the first African-American into the highest office in that ...
go to article »November 5, 2008
Newest 7:34pm: Dole (R) re-elected in NC. 7:32pm: FNC calls Daniels (R) re-elected in IN. 7:28pm: Georgia leads for McCain. He should take it. 1,650 votes reported with McCain at 71%. 2.41% MoE, 19/20 (if the sample was representative, which it is not!) 7:24pm: McCain will take IN. 7:17pm: McCai...
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Newer Candidates vote: Palin, Obama, McCain, Biden Electoral College: Prediction from fivethirtyeight.com: Obama 348.6 | McCain 189.4 Voting problems: Twitter Vote Report Get out the vote: Voter turnout above 60% a safe bet? Voter Intimidation: Black Panthers brandish nightstick outside of polling s...
go to article »November 4, 2008
…and a very small lead at that. In the county of Dixville Notch, New Hampshire polls open on election day at midnight and close one minute later. This year, 21 eligable voters of the 75 person county showed up to cast their ballots and Obama leads with 15 votes to 6 for John McCain. Voter t...
go to article »October 24, 2008
During the election campaign, I mocked up a Canadian version of the famous Obama poster in Adobe Illustrator: and my friend Chris and I put them on some t-shirts for a laugh. There have been many spoofs of the Obama poster, here’s the Canadian version. The shirts were featured in the specia...
go to article »October 23, 2008
that’s the conclusion that I draw from this invitation which bears the trademark and logo of the Liberal Party of Canada. Imagine if the Conservative Party sent out an invite for a party to celebrate the Republicans! ...
go to article »September 30, 2008
A mea culpa from CBC News publisher John Cruikshank concerning this column by Heather Mallick published on the CBC website. In the column, Mallick calls American voters “white trash”, Republican men “sexual inadequates” and Sarah Palin a “hillbilly” among other sl...
go to article »September 15, 2008
and it’s going to go viral… (listen here) First, Stephen Harper gets surprised by Geri Hall from 22 minutes as the “single female voter” and now this. I just received an email from Mashline.com promoting a song they put together called “I’ve got a crush on Harper&...
go to article »September 6, 2008
Last night, I sat a few rows behind elected delegates on the floor at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul Minnesota where Senator John McCain accepted his party’s nomination for President of the United States. In all, the night was somewhat less charged than the previous; the night ...
go to article »September 4, 2008
Last night I saw Sarah Palin accept her party’s nomination for Vice President of the United States. I was sitting a couple of rows behind the VIP stand and watched as Palin’s family, the subject of intense media scrutiny (both fair and unfair), were seated and as they watched their moth...
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