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POPSIssue Not Dead - Petition for Proof of U.S.Birth You don't have to be a fanatic on the birth certificate issue. Just consider the fact that it could very likely be true. And we are just willing to say, "Oh what does it really matter in this case?" Well let's make that argument when we break any law on the books. Aww, screw it. Right?
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POPSWhite House sizes Census Well this ought to scare the heck out of us. As Staling once said, "It doesn't matter who casts the votes only who counts them."
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POPSSuddenly Obama has Muslim roots "...the interviewer Melhem came across as the most honest....when he admitted that, throughout the Muslim world, there was a 'demonization of America' that's become 'like a new religion' - complete with 'concerts and high priests'".
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POPSPresidential Portraits And Their Personal Profiles Know your presidents? Take the Trivia-Quiz Follow the URL to take the entire trivia-quiz. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/chi-president-quiz,0,3188595.triviaquiz Presidential portraits Know your presidents? Brush up in this gallery of portraits http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/blotter/chi-presidents-photogallery,0,6466822.photogallery
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POPS Nov.05, 2008 Historical Perspective on Obama's Victory Obama does have a mandate to lead. He won the popular vote, the Electoral College, and he brought out significant turnout. But it’s a stretch to count the high turnout as a credit to Obama since his margin of victory was so slim. This means that almost as many of the votes that Obama got out were coming out to vote against him. Similarly, the Electoral College results may like slanted heavily to Obama’s favor, but historically speaking they are not even up to the average margin of victory. And the popular vote is the same story – Obama won. But that’s about all you can say about it. There’s one final detail to consider. Obama’s victory is historic because he’s black and this is America. Many of those who came out to support him were motivated by this sense of history rather than by support of his policies. On the other hand, many of those who voted against him were motivated by a fear for his policies.
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POPSFinally No matter who wins the electoral college, the 2008 presidential election will be a historic one, as the nation will send either an African-American or the oldest first-term president to the White House. A McCain win would also mean the first female vice president in the nation's history. The 2008 presidential election has proved to be the most expensive in history. Americans are expected to head to the polls in record numbers. http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/04/election.president/index.html?eref=time_us
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POPSDouble Voters - VA It'll be interesting to see if anything is done about this. It appears that it is pretty easy both to double vote but also to bust someone who double votes--if election officials decide to do anything about it.
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POPSMcCain Beats Obama ! At first, it wasn’t evident that something extraordinary was brewing last evening. The polls in Virginia closed at 7 pm Eastern time, and that race was too close to call (no surprise there) since, even though Obama was favored in the Old Dominion State, George W. Bush had carried it by eight points both elections. But by 8 pm, it began to become apparent that the blowout some in the media and the Obama camp had been predicting might not be materializing. New Hampshire — where pre-election polls had seen Obama up 10 points — was too close to call, a repeat of what had happened almost a year before in the primary between Obama and Clinton. Missouri and Ohio were also too close to call, with McCain showing unexpected strength among working-class and Catholic voters. Just as in 2004, Florida was showing unexpected strength for the Republicans, despite the housing crisis. Then Minnesota began to report and, in a huge surprise, that race, too, was too close to call.
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POPSObama gains in battleground states FL, CO, MI, PA now in strong column. VA, NV, MC, MO, WV, IN all within margin of error tie. Author suggests this may be a high point, expects some narrowing toward election day. But could be an electoral college blowout.
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POPSSchoolhouse Rock - lyrics & links to videos on YouTube I got an urge to hear the Preamble again: In 1787 I'm told Our founding fathers did agree To write a list of principles For keepin' people free. The U.S.A. was just startin' out. A whole brand-new country. And so our people spelled it out The things that we should be. And they put those principles down on paper and called it the Constitution, and it's been helping us run our country ever since then. The first part of the Constitution is called the preamble and tells what those founding fathers set out to do. We the people, In order to form a more perfect union, Establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, Provide for the common defense, Promote the general welfare and Secure the blessings of liberty To ourselves and our posterity Do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
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POPSStill Undecided? Then Just Don't Vote! It's a basic political-science axiom that citizens are less likely to revolt if they feel they determined who gets to look down Arianna Huffington's blouse at political soirees. So feel free not to vote. Just remember, if so many groups' main objective really were to strengthen democracy, America would have gotten rid of the electoral college by now. Interesting opinion! ... I feel very strongly that everyone should always vote, but should we? Is not voting at all, better than voting for the lesser of two evils?
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