Tag Archives: Politics

New Voters

November 3, 2008 – 11:08 am

A theme that’s come up several times during Obama’s candidacy has been his appeal to young voters, and the numbers he is likely to draw in to the political process. Short-term the talk is about how this will affect the election, but the longer term implications are interesting too. Anything that gets people involved in [...]

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Forecasting

October 31, 2008 – 2:17 pm

I’ve heard a number of right-leaning commentators talk about the various paths to victory McCain might have, usually including Florida or Ohio, plus perhaps Missouri, North Carolina and others. Here’s the interesting thing. If you check out this map based on recent polling you find that Obama has 264 electoral votes pretty much tied up. [...]

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One Word Response

October 9, 2008 – 6:51 pm

From the BBC: Prime Minister Gordon Brown says he is “angry” about irresponsible behaviour by bankers and has warned that “the days of big bonuses are over”. Wrong!

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No choice at all

October 9, 2008 – 12:29 pm

Interesting article from Scott Ritter on the choice of candidates for November. the sad reality is one of two deeply flawed men, the byproduct of a deeply flawed political system, will serve as president for the next four or eight years

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Six of one

October 7, 2008 – 6:23 pm

Many on the right will point out examples of hateful behaviour on the left. This isn’t hard to do; there are a great many moronic, disgraceful people on the left who I happily (or unhappily, depending how you look at it) reject. What doesn’t receive so much attention is that the same sort of people [...]

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