Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Exactly two years ago, the polling firm SurveyUSA interviewed 30,000 voters spread evenly by state, asking them how they would vote in a 2008 Presidential Election between John McCain and Barack Obama. Here are the results: In this poll, Obama took his home state of Illinois, his birth state of Hawaii, and DC, for a […]
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Karl Rove is predicting that Obama will win the election, with a 338 to 200 electoral vote victory. Of course, people still wearing their tinfoil hats will probably say that this is a cynical ploy to get voters to stay home, to benefit down-ticket Republicans. Prove them wrong. Go vote. However, if I were being […]
The Republican National Committee issued a press release this afternoon, announcing that they were filing a complaint with the Federal Election Commission because Obama used campaign resources to fly to Hawaii a week ago to visit his ailing grandmother. Just about the same time Obama announced that his grandmother had died. oops. The Obama campaign […]
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Our anachronistic Electoral College makes no sense any more. The Electoral College is left over from the days when presidents were elected by appointed representatives from each state. Each state gets a number of electors to the Electoral College equal to the number of Representatives and Senators it has in Congress. This distorts how much influence […]
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I know, I know, I run a blog called “Political Irony” but sometimes something comes along that is so ironic that it boggles even my jaded mind. Esquire Magazine has a fascinating report on the political views of white supremacists, racists, and other hate-mongers and finds that many of them are supporting Obama for the […]
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Some of you might have received a mailer sent out by the anti-abortion group Susan B. Anthony List. (We won’t go into how the mailer misrepresents Obama’s position on abortion). Here’s the front cover of the flyer: The site 236.com came up with a reply:
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In 2006, when Palin was running to be the governor of Alaska, she answered a questionnaire from the Eagle Forum. One of the questions was as follows, with Palin’s answer: EF: Are you offended by the phrase “Under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance? Why or why not? SP: Not on your life. If it […]
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Saturday, November 1, 2008
The First Amendment to the Constitution tells the government that it cannot control your speech, but Sarah Palin has managed to turn it completely on its head. To her, the First Amendment is a weapon to be used by the government (that would be her, since as you might recall she is the governor of […]
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Naomi Klein hits the nail squarely on the head: the Bush gang is looting the US treasury on their way out of power, and we are helping them do it. http://www.naomiklein.org/articles/2008/10/bailout-bush-s-final-pillage One quote: The banks are free to spend the new money as they wish. At Morgan Stanley, it looks like much of the windfall […]
So, let’s say you’re a county clerk trying to prove that touch-screen voting machines work just fine, that the problems are due to “voter error”. So you decide to give a demonstration. And you’re so sure of yourself that you let people videotape it. Maybe it is a mistake that you decide to first demonstrate […]
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Thursday, October 30, 2008
We’ve had a few stories here about stolen Obama signs, but this is a unique twist.
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