Tag: Election 2008
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Why Obama is winning
Pollsters keep telling us that President Obama is statistically tied in the presidential race with his challenger Mitt Romney. “It’s within the margin of error,” they say, and if elections were won based on the popular vote, it would be. It is much harder to make the claim that the candidates are tied if you…
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Hate is so yesterday
The Karl Rove playbook is no longer working that well. You know the playbook. It’s the one emphasizes us vs. them. In the Karl Rove America, you win elections by slicing and dicing Americans into micro-groups, then ruthlessly targeting these micro-groups until you have enough votes to win elections for your side. It’s about some…
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The final debate
John McCain cannot win for losing. On September 26th, the date of the first presidential debate, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) closed at what now seems like a nostalgic 11,143 points. On October 7th, the date of the second presidential debate, the DJIA dropped 508 points and closed at 9447. Today, October 15th, the…
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The second debate
Watching a presidential debate in high definition is definitely a different experience, and not necessarily for the better. You obviously get a much better picture quality that translates into more of a feeling that you area in the room instead of watching the debates from hundreds of miles away. The bad part: our candidates look…
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Screwed and angry
If you want to know why Barack Obama is surging in the polls, it would be tempting to say that it is due to our current economic problems. That is it, of course, but it imparts little in the way of understanding. Obama is gaining in the polls, not so much because Americans are lining…
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The vice presidential debate
It seems like no matter how much we voters want lively debates from our presidential and vice presidential candidates, they won’t give them to us. Thursday’s vice presidential debate could have been interesting and informative. Instead, many of us watching it felt inclined to nod off instead. If you watch clips of Sarah Palin and…
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The ownership society has arrived!
On February 21, 2003, President Bush gave a speech in Kennesaw, Georgia. There he first talked about America becoming an “ownership society”. In those heady days of neo-conservatism, an ownership society meant power was going to trickle down to the masses. We would be in charge (own) our health care and drive down medical costs…
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