Ah! It is finally here! I feel like a kid on Christmas morning! Election! Election!

I finally saw the movie Bobby last night. Overall the movie wasn’t much to write home about (I liked it though), but the last scene after Kennedy was shot and they showed the aftermath of the shooting was excellent. Kennedy’s speech, “On the Mindless Menace of Violence” was just amazing. So.. to […]

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By Steven E. Landsburg
We might be headed for another close election, which means your vote could really matter this time, right? Wrong. Your vote didn’t matter in 2000, it never mattered before 2000, and it’s very unlikely to start mattering now.
Last time around, everything came down to Florida, where Bush’s official margin was 537 votes. […]

On a forum I’m on, the question was posed whether Obama would usher in a “new, new deal” in light of all the grim economic news lately. One person said:
I think it’s possible…how likely remains to be seen, but I agree with Colin Powell…Obama is a transformational figure.
And while I agree with […]

An interesting article on the Huffington Post showing that McCain met with Pinochet back in 1985. I’m a big supporter of Obama’s plans to sit down and meet with rogue leaders. When he does though, I’m sure he’ll seek to challenge them a bit more than McCain did in the 80’s.

Good stuff:

A good example too of the difference between youth of any party and their closed minded elders.

From CNN:
(CNN) — Former Secretary of State Colin Powell announced Sunday that he will be voting for Sen. Barack Obama, citing the Democrat’s “ability to inspire” and the “inclusive nature of his campaign.”
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell says he is voting for Barack Obama.
“He has both style and substance. I think he is a […]

On the one hand it doesn’t seem so shocking, being his home state newspaper and all. But according to the editorial the Tribune has NEVER endorsed a Democrat. The founder of the Tribune helped found the Republican party and only failed to endorse the GOP twice in the last 150 years. They […]

A Newsweek blog had an interesting article last week about the Bradley Effect and Reverse Bradley Effect involving how honest people are regarding race when doing phone polls.
It seems the article is right about the effect and wrong about the cause. If Obama was winning by larger margins than the polls it […]

Interesting post by Jeffrey Feldman:
For playground-soldier Rush Limbaugh, when a Republican gives a speech that questions the effectiveness of government, that forfeits said Republican’s status as ‘a man.’ What would have earned McCain his ‘I’m a man’ badge? Blaming the destruction of New Orleans on liberals, of course (as if you had to […]