Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 2008 Election, early voting Las Vegas, Las Vegas votes on October 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Tell it, Jed:
In 2004, in the first two days of early voting, 27,296 voters turned out.
In 2008, in the first two days of early voting, 45,658 voters turned out.
That’s a 67% increase — and Las Vegas isn’t exactly known for being terribly politically active. Has to be a good sign.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 2008 Election, 538, electoral college, electoral vote, fivethirtyeight.com, McCain polls, Nate Silver, national polls, Obama polls, state polls on October 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
All of it, here.
The central point is this: if McCain has gained ground — and most likely he has — then what he’s done is reset the race to roughly where it was two weeks ago, when Obama also had roughly a 6-point national lead. Except, the two positions aren’t entirely equal, since two weeks [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged conservate endorsements Obama, George Packer, Jed Report, Ken Aldeman endorses Obama, The New Yorker on October 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you don’t know who Ken Aldeman is, get a load of his conservative bona fides:
Ken Adelman is a lifelong conservative Republican. Campaigned for Goldwater, was hired by Rumsfeld at the Office of Economic Opportunity under Nixon, was assistant to Defense Secretary Rumsfeld under Ford, served as Reagan’s director of arms control, and joined the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged GOP policies, Joe the Plumber, McCain Tax Plan, Obama tax plan, Ohio, Paul Krugman, Republican brand, Republican failed strategy, Richard Nixon, The Real Plumbers of Ohio on October 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Excellent article from Mr. Krugman on how working Americans are really faring, compared to all that blathering GOP spin out there.
Forty years ago, Richard Nixon made a remarkable marketing discovery. By exploiting America’s divisions — divisions over Vietnam, divisions over cultural change and, above all, racial divisions — he was able to reinvent the Republican brand. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Biblioburro, Bookmobile Columbia, literacy Columbia, Luis Soriano, New York Times, reading Columbia, Simon Romero on October 20, 2008 | 4 Comments »
What a fantastic story. The New York Times chronicles a labour of love.
LA GLORIA, Colombia — In a ritual repeated nearly every weekend for the past decade here in Colombia’s war-weary Caribbean hinterland, Luis Soriano gathered his two donkeys, Alfa and Beto, in front of his home on a recent Saturday afternoon.
Sweating already under the [...]
