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Our New President

Congrats Barack! Now lets get things done.

Live Blogging - Election Night

Exciting night! Results are starting to pour in, so let’s get to it…
8:30pm—MSNBC is showing 103 – 34 with a lot of pre-9pm states still not called. My projections are showing 66 safe electoral votes are pretty safe to call for McCain (WV, AL, KS, MS, TX, AR), so that would put McCain at 100 [...]

How things should shape up tomorrow night.

I took a look at the latest polls and projections on FiveThirtyEight.com and RealClearPolitics.com and mapped them out by when the polls close in each state to see how things should progress tomorrow night. All this assuming that states report fairly quickly and that the projections play out as expected.
By 8pm, the race should be [...]

Obama: “All of us are in this together.”

“We can’t afford the same political games and tactics that always pit us against one another. Make us afraid of one another. That’s the oldest trick in the book.”

Can’t wait for Tuesday.
Vote!

F.U.D. vs Hope

The election has boiled down to this, in my opinion: Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (F.U.D.) versus Hope.
The McCain/Palin campaign and right wingers sling the F.U.D. better than anyone. Remember, when you go to the polls next Tuesday that Barack is: black, an Arab, a Muslim, a terrorist, a friend of terrorists, a communist, a socialist, [...]

Will McCain punk out?

So the first presidential debate is tonight and McCain is threatening to not show up, in order to work on the financial crisis. He’s even “suspended his campaign” (or not.)
First off, I have to agree with Obama on this one: Presidents should be able to handle more than one major task at one AND what [...]