DanF
- : Bloomington, IN
- : 42
- : Liberal
- : I'm a programmer/database designer by trade, but I've been a political junkie since I was in high school in the early eighties. I grew up in Ontario, CA, went to school in San Diego, have lived in the Shenendoah Mountains of Virginia, a small city in the African nation of Guinea, and I currently reside in my favorite place of all, Bloomington, IN (a blue city in a red state) with my wife (an African art historian) and our two small children.
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I think we'll see team Obama put more of these out now that the convention is near.
Posted at August 21, 2008 11:27 AM in response to New Obama Ad Hits McCain On Number-Of-Houses Gaffe
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People are hard-wired to look for certain physical traits in leaders. It's why the vast majority of politicians are over six feet tall and are relatively nice-looking people with straight teeth. A photo of McCain lounging pool-side in a tank-top would effectively end his campaign.
Genetics ... can't live with them, can't live without them.
Posted at August 15, 2008 11:17 AM in response to McCain Campaign Attacks Obama For ... Taking His Shirt Off On A Beach
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Rasmussen is very good at the straight-forward are you going to vote for candidate a, b, or c. They are a conservative polling group and will skew issue oriented polls with loaded questions.
Posted at August 15, 2008 11:06 AM in response to Election Central Morning Roundup
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Ayn Rand in a nutshell...
Posted at August 13, 2008 10:37 AM in response to Tomorrow's Swift-Boating Of Obama, Today!
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That's a good point. There is a huge enthusiasm gap between the candidates. Books like this serve to not only de-motivate marginal Obama supporters, but perhaps more importantly, motivate the GOP base; not out of love for McSame, but out of hatred for Obama.
Posted at August 13, 2008 10:35 AM in response to Tomorrow's Swift-Boating Of Obama, Today!
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It's really weird... They also seem to have this mistaken idea that the more you cut taxes, the more money the govt. takes in from economic growth. Historical data proving the opposite has no effect. By this reasoning, shouldn't we cut taxes to .001%? Man! Think of all the cash the government would haul in then. Maroons.
Posted at August 13, 2008 10:31 AM in response to Tomorrow's Swift-Boating Of Obama, Today!
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I believe that's the "born again" vote in two decades, which would be different. Still, pretty great news!
Posted at August 13, 2008 10:10 AM in response to Tomorrow's Swift-Boating Of Obama, Today!
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I'm actually pleased to see that they called it "cocaine" and not "crack-cocaine". This is really a rhetorical step-up for them.
Posted at August 13, 2008 10:05 AM in response to Tomorrow's Swift-Boating Of Obama, Today!
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Bayh, by contrast, is the sort of Democrat who leaps through GOP frames whenever Republicans say "jump," like so many trained seals jumping through hoops.
Since he is my Senator, Social Security Insurance jumps to mind right away. He totally bought into the idea that we should look into privatizing SSI. I wish I'd kept a copy of the pathetic boiler-plate letter he sent me when I was trying to find out if he would stand up and defend Social Security when Bush was on his grand tour of privatization lunacy. Man what a weenie.
I'm torn actually. If he goes, we may lose a Dem seat in the Senate, but we might actually get a Senator interested in building the Indiana Democratic Party (Bayh has done two things for our party in this state: 1) Jack 2) Shit.
Also, he is a totally unimpressive campaigner.
Posted at August 12, 2008 10:37 AM in response to New York Times Hits Bayh For Membership In Committee For Liberation Of Iraq
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At times like these I really miss "mediawhoresonline.com"...
Posted at July 21, 2008 3:04 PM in response to Washington Post Spins Iraqi Official's Call For Troops Out By 2010 As Against Obama
