Mrs. E.’s Midwest Battleground Tour

By on October 31, 2008 in Politics

Mrs. E. undertook a two-day trip through the two Midwest battleground states of Ohio and Indiana last week. She stopped at the campaign headquarters of both Barack Obama and John McCain, and asked volunteers there the same question:

“What is it about this election year that inspires you to volunteer?”

Their answers along with a photo slideshow are now posted on the Huffington Post. I highly commend your attention to it. It’s a study in marked contrasts.

What you’ll see from the photos is an amazingly different approach to politics. With very few exceptions, Obama volunteers are highly motivated by their candidate, a man that inspires and invigorates them.…


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Not All Bitters are Anti-Obama

By on October 28, 2008 in Politics

I have another Huffington Post piece up today, talking about how busy Obama volunteers (like me) have pretty much put off everything that’s non-essential in their lives until after the election.

Read it HERE.

In the process of gathering the quotes, I had a couple of interesting email conversations and there was one, in particular, that I found fascinating. It was written by a woman who is a “permanent resident” of the USA but hasn’t yet obtained her citizenship. She wrote this:

My husband is a citizen from Rural PA — who clings to his guns and his religion. He, incidentally, thought Obama got it right.…


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Obama Leads by Example – Pushing ‘Til the End!

By on October 28, 2008 in Obama, Politics

Seven more days. I woke with a sinus headache and the sniffles this morning – bound to be a cold coming on. Lost of people at the Campaign for Change headquarters pulling long shifts and looking a bit blearly. Temps dropping into the 30s this week with snow in the forecast.

But we’re not letting up one bit in Michigan, not even with our 15+% lead in the polls.

And neither is Senator Obama.

It would be easy for us to let up now. Michigan is looking very solid for Obama-Biden:

But we’re not. Like so many others, I put in over 15 hours of canvassing this past weekend and this is happening all over the country.…


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The Axis of Weasel

By on October 28, 2008 in Bwahahahahaha, Politics

This is perfect:

Have you ever wondered about the inner-workings of a big time, presidential campaign? Asked yourself, how do they do it? How do they craft a message and get it out to the American people? Well, if you’re John McCain and are 7 days away from seeing your lifelong ambition go down the toilet, it’s simple. You join forces with Matt Drudge and Fox News…let’s call them the Axis of Weasel…and then you go to town.

Now granted, despite their best efforts, the fake “B” mutilation story didn’t have legs, but hey, it wasn’t their fault that their victim couldn’t get her self-inflicted wound right.…


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McCain: ZERO Percent Chance of Winning

By on October 27, 2008 in Obama, Politics

I don’t believe it’s a certainty (yet) but this does put a smile on my face. From Election-Projection.net:


Ouch.

I’m just sayin’…

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Morally and Intellectually Slothful People

By on October 27, 2008 in Politics

Christopher Hitchens nails it:

This is what the Republican Party has done to us this year: It has placed within reach of the Oval Office a woman who is a religious fanatic and a proud, boastful ignoramus. Those who despise science and learning are not anti-elitist. They are morally and intellectually slothful people who are secretly envious of the educated and the cultured. And those who prate of spiritual warfare and demons are not just “people of faith” but theocratic bullies.

I work with these people every day. Lord, give me strength.

I’m just sayin’…

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The Electoral College Makes Things Interesting

By on October 27, 2008 in Politics, Things That Make You Go Hmmm

48 states plus Washington, D.C. are winner take all. So, you could have all of them by winning each one by one vote. That’s 49 votes.

Maine and Nebraska have two and three Congressional districts, respectively. Their system is that there’s one electoral vote for each district and two more for the overall winner of the state so you’d need to win each district by one so that’s another five votes total.

Out of the millions of votes cast, it is theoretically possible for a candidate to win by only 54 votes and still have the electoral map look like this:

Weird, huh?…


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The Ann Arbor News Endorses NOBODY!!!

By on October 26, 2008 in Politics

I heard this today at our canvass headquarters but I couldn’t believe it until I actually read it. But yes, it’s true:

FOR PRESIDENT: FLAWED CANDIDATES, NO ENDORSEMENT
by the Ann Arbor News.

That’s right. The Ann Arbor News.

For the past week the News has been endorsing Democrats of all kinds. Carl Levin for U.S. Senate. Mark Schauer for the MI-07 Congressional District. Pam Byrnes for State House. Alma Wheeler Smith for State House. Rebekah Warren for State House. The list goes on and on.

But they couldn’t bring themselves to endorse Senator Barack Obama.

It’s hard to know which of the amazingly poor editorial commentary to quote but I’ll start with their intro:

When this newspaper decides not to endorse a candidate in an election, it’s usually because we believe neither is qualified for the office.…


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