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Spencer Williams 0448451107
I bought this book to discuss the election and the process of voting for president for my preschool classroom (Ages 4-5). I chose this book, as this was the closest to the recommended age that I could find. For the younger children, this book I think would be very disturbing to some ch...
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Rich, with his reflections on the recent election, has inspired me to share a few of my own personal thoughts. Like many commentators, I am inspired by the actions of the electorate, overcoming a history of bias and bigotry to overwhelmingly support a minority American. And I found Mc...
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Not to sound too much like a twelve step program---but sometimes you gotta hit rock bottom to turn things around. The Republicans hit bottom Tuesday night. Its like this---while Barack Obama was thanking a group of diverse folk, leaning toward the hip end of the scale (albeit a bit ...
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2008-11-07  morialekafa
Bubblehead, what terrible news! I sincerely hope that all will go well and that you will quickly recover. All best wishes.I predicted from very early in the campaign that Obama would win in a landslide. I guess he didn’t quite achieve a true landslide but I am certainly satisfied. It...
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In a political repudiation of what Eliot called the “tedious arguments of insidious intent,” the country seems to have turned the page on a dark chapter of American history, one that began nearly a half-century ago with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.  Think about...
2008-11-07  Latest iReports
Sadly Racism is alive and well in the US. Not from the usual source, but from the black community. 98% of black voters voted for Obama, not because he was the most qualified, not because they believe in his cause (in fact most CNN interviewed didn't even know his cause) but they voted ...
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2008-11-07  PoliTits
I've been chortling, in a rather self-satisfied and undignified manner, at the shredding Governor Sarah Palin's reputation is taking now that the election is over. I've luxuriated like the good governor herself at Saks' spa as I've listened to confirmation of Palin's lack of intelligen...
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2008-11-06  Angry Bear
by cactusWhat We Owe ObamaWhat we owe Obama is... nothing. Its the same thing we would owe McCain if he were elected President. Its what we owe anyone else who becomes President.See, being President is a privilege. Its not a right, for anyone. There's no situation in which you can ...
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Rhodes Cook is a veteran Washington political analyst who tracks national elections and voting trends and publishes a bimonthly political newsletter. Click here for Mr. Cook’s full bio. Late Tuesday night, John McCain and Barack Obama brought down the curtain on their 2008 pre...
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2008-11-06  BuzzFeed - Latest
The 52% that voted Obama send encouraging messages to the 48% that voted McCain - we are all American and we all need to work together! Click the image to see all the submissions. Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment
I was on a flight to London when Obama was projected to win the election and when he gave his victory speech. But I was able to see the video and read the transcript at my hotel. I thought it was a great speech. It covered most of the 6 steps that I outlined for the president to r...
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Spencer Williams B000ENUKPS
...and definately not "old style" Edwin McCain. Only "Losing Tonight" is remeniscent. Seems he's trying to break out of a mold but loosing that old attraction a bit.
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2008-11-06  NDN Blog - NDN Blog
As NDN Fellows Morley Winograd and Mike Hais demonstrated yesterday, the Millennial Generation played a key role in this election, voting in higher numbers than in any recent election and in a more unified manner than any other age group - 66% of Millennials supported President-Elect ...
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This is ridiculous. He's been president-elect for under 48 hours and Obama's already reworking governing through the Web.Case in point: Change.gov.President-Elect Obama has spoken about creating a Chief Technology Officer position for the country, but does he need it? Can't he just be ...
, America , Barack , Politics , United
2008-11-06  Nielsen Online
Concurrent with record turnout at the polls on Election Day, Americans turned up in big numbers online. U.S. Internet users visited Current Events and Global News sites at a rate 27% higher on Election Day than they did on the previous Tuesday. The day after the election, online buzz a...
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In Guilford County, NC where Sarah Palin declared the residents "real Americans," Obama defeated McCain in a landslide: Guilford County Election Results.
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Whatever their political leanings, sportswriters followed the lead of Sen. John McCain’s concession speech Tuesday night and covered the election in the context of “the special significance it has for African-Americans.” Associated Press Baseball pioneer Jackie Robins...
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2008-11-06  Alex Geana
We have a President! As this fact sinks in, we parse the polls and the numbers and the demographics that make up the Obama win. We try to guess the tea leaves of his appointments. Now we're glued on the dynamics of the new government. This is the moment when conservatives lick thei...
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We all knew it was coming, the gloom and doom talking points from the disenchanted right wing. My kids came home from school yesterday asking why President Obama was going to take away people's guns and kill babies and make everyone poor. We live in a very, very conservative county whe...
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2008-11-06  MediaBloodhound
As the majority of Americans continue to bask in the glow of Barack Obama's landslide victory on Tuesday, comedians nationwide have suddenly fallen on hard times. Some literally. Widespread reports of comedians leaping from windows on Election Night have received little attention in t...
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2008-11-06  jozjozjoz.com
RT: An Obama victory is NOT enough — VOTE “NO” ON PROP 8 BEFORE POLLS CLOSE AT 8 PM # @SassyBlonde Yes the graphics are so much better than the whiteboard. But I kinda liked the whiteboard! # WTF with those “Voter Alert” *bing!* on CNN. Totally annoying ...
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2008-11-06  Firedoglake
The AP's Liz Sidoti does her best to declare Obama's presidency over before it's even officially started. She ladles on the gloom-and-doom with a cement mixer: No new president has faced so much since Franklin Delano Roosevelt — and even he didn't have two wars on his plate. Roosev...
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There was more war than there was peace on the McCain-Palin ticket, American voters are starting to learn, especially in the last few weeks of the presidential election as top lieutenants serving the senator from Arizona became increasingly appalled by the freelancing ways of the very ...
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New slurs against John McCain's former running mate emerged this week as the tattered Republican party nosedived into civil war in the wake of its decisive American election defeat.
2008-11-06  Megan McArdle
My first internet bon mot was Jane's Law: the devotees of the party in power are smug and arrogant. The devotees of the party out of power are insane.Red State offers proof positive. Because you know what the Republican Party is missing? What the electorate really wants from conser...
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First off, congratulations to Barack Obama and his campaign for their historic victory. It’s truly a great achievement and regardless of what political party or ideology you belong to he is going to be America’s President come January and deserves our respect and support. N...
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2008-11-06  mommy bytes
Believe it or not, it's time for the Blogblast for Peace hosted by Mimi Lenox. And what better time than after the election of a man who promises just that: Peace. Please note I am a hopeless liberal, so bear with me (or not) for one political post... Our Election Day started with ...
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2008-11-06  Convince Me
Yesterday, I showed McCain and Obama's speeches in my math class. I thought it was really important for my kids to see them. Some of the kids were clearly uninterested, but many were really engaged. The kids had a lot of great questions and comments.One class in particular really go...
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Excerpted by Carmen Van Kerckhove African American voters in California voted overwhelmingly for Prop 8, writing anti-gay discrimination into California’s constitution and banning same-sex marriage in that state. Seventy percent of African American voters approved Prop 8, according t...
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2008-11-06  Blogging Faith
Having grown up in the oh-so-old-fashioned commonwealth of Virginia, I've never seen a ballot initiative up close and personal. I've never signed a petition to get one on the ballot. Never voted for or against it. Never attended a rally protesting the results (as one of my friends i...
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2008-11-06  Creole Wisdom
On Tuesday, I voted for the second time.  The first time for a president.  It was fun, and this time, I didn't mess up on the ballot.  So let me just make it clear: I'm conservative, but I don't just vote with "my party."  I knew for a while that I would vote for Oba...
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2008-11-05  Chris Pirillo
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed US elections are always close, but the nation was shocked to see John McCamin defeat Barack Obama by a single vote. The single non-voter who is responsible for this defeat is now a pariah, simply for oversleeping. The man who ...
, Community , election , mccain , obama , president
Robert Timberg B00049QJU2
This DVD is a lot of fun. Lots of new songs (well, they were new when the DVD came out) and some different versions of the songs we love. If you love Edwin you'll love this DVD. We put it on and play it through the surround sound like a cd. I listened to this the entire time I was ...
$16.98 : Americans McCain
My two cents on the election: My title is sincere. I have known for the past 10 months that I would be happier about the end of the election than about whoever won it. Within 50 years of the civil rights movement, we have seen a black man win a presidential election. There is something...
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Rainbow coalition of voters sweeps Obama into office There was plenty of evidence to support the view that Obama's candidacy was racially and nationally unifyingMcCain: "Senator Obama .... has prevailed, and I pledge tonight to do all in my power to help him lead us in th...
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2008-11-05  Opinio Juris
Great speech. Amazing day. Whether or not you supported Barack Obama, one cannot deny the achievement America made last night. Martin Luther King has always been one of my heroes and I cannot help but wonder what he would have said had he lived to see this day. If there are tears o...
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2008-11-05  60' 6"
56.3 million Americans were duped by the McCain campaign. Country First, my ass:
2008-11-05  Elusive Lucidity
So do we now refer to ourselves as the United States of Anti-America? The United States of Arugula? For eight years I patiently waited for my moment of schadenfreude as the right-wingers who talked about mandates and country first would simply have to face up to a demographic "pwning."...
2008-11-05  blogging out loud
Forget about the winners, I say! That’s so yesterday. It’s infinitely more insightful to pick the bones clean of the biggest losers from yesterday, and I’m not talking about Cindy McCain, Todd Palin, the gays and the poor human zygotes who lost their last ch...
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Last night Barack Obama was voted in as the first black President-Elect in American history. Everyone is screaming about how this is an historical moment in our nation’s short time in existence. Well here is what I have to say: no matter which candidate was elected it would have be...
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2008-11-05  The Common Ills
The elections will feature political races heavily influenced by Iraq's complex and sectarian conflicts.They could exacerbate tensions in southern Iraq between U.S.-backed Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's nationalist Islamic Dawa Party and the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, the two main S...
2008-11-05  The House Next Door
1. Some election round-up: At The Nation, William Greider comments on "This Proud Moment" (excerpt below). At National Review, Byron York asks "What Sunk McCain?" Roger Ebert (who should please check out the Studs Terkel-led Links for the Day for an update to his comment there) respond...
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In view of yesterday's and 2006's electoral results, if any of my conservative readers fear that America has rushed off the liberal precipice to follow the godless, statist pattern of Europe, let me offer a couple of thoughts...This election, as well as virtually every presidential ele...
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2008-11-05  Joe. My. God.
"African American voters in California voted overwhelmingly for Prop 8, writing anti-gay discrimination into California’s constitution and banning same-sex marriage in that state. Seventy percent of African American voters approved Prop 8, according to exit polls, compared to 53% of ...
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I just found myself wondering what the different front pages of newspapers look like today. I’d assume that all of the U.S. newspapers will have the same story above the fold, but perhaps some international papers might feature the election results less prominently. I remembered ...
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The final exit polls pointed to a stunning conclusion: one ingredient to Obama's victory was massive improvement among the most devoutly religious voters. Obama got 43% of weekly church-goers vs. 55% for McCain. In 2004, Bush got 61% vs. 39% for Kerry. What this means is that Bush ...
2008-11-05  Feral Scholar
People have heard me harp on John Boyd and the OODA-Loop (an acronym for a decision cycle in tactical conflicts). Tactical agility is something that is lacking in social movements, largely because we are mis-organized. Here is a piece from CP by Chuck Spenney on Boyd and Obama’s...
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He is BARACK OBAMA. The newly elected president of the United States. The 44th President of USA. The first African-American President of USA.Hi guys! This is just a quick post...Just got home from 'US ELECTION WATCH 2008' held at SM City Cebu - Philippines, and boy I am really so tired...
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2008-11-05  da blogs da thang
Looks like the Big NO has a new mayor. Looks like the nation has a new President. My thoughts? (Not that they matter. lol.) No matter one’s level of cynicism or disdain… I think we can all agree that this is historic. No doubt that word will be used over and over again for ...
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I confess a certain impatience, on this poignant day, with all the earnest talk about how America achieved something remarkable yesterday by electing our first African-American president, as if the choice has been about race all along. I do not mean to diminish an historic first, like ...
2008-11-05  All Spin Zone
Man, it is coming out and boy it sure looks like they had problems with her from the beginning. Lovely today, as Sarah Palin is asked about her future involvement in national politics. From CNN: “2012 sounds so far off that can’t even imagine what I’d be doing then,...
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2008-11-05  Contrary Brin
Like most of you, I am almost too tired to feel the full elation of the moment. Indeed, there are some ways in which I've even felt a little resentment toward being congratulated (as a nation) for the purportedly prime event - the election of an African-American as president. I have ...
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2008-11-05  Wizards of Oz
The underdog, son-of-an-immigrant-father, raised-by-his-grandmother, no-silver-spoon junior senator from Illinois has won the highest office in our great nation. America is a different country this morning, a better country this morning.Yes, I voted for Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin. ...
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2008-11-05  The Cleverest
Some very encouraging news coming from America these days. There’s not much particularly insightful information I can shed on the situation except to mention that from a branding perspective, it’s finally time to ditch the Obama “O” logo as fast as possible. I...
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Three of "The View" co-hosts are comedians by profession, but they unintentionally provided some comedy to the November 4 edition of "The View." After two segments of basking over Barack Obama’s victory, and the historic nature of the first African-American president, Sherri Shephe...
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We have woken upon a Historic morning, when Americans came to vote together for black and white together. Even those who voted for McCain thank you for participating. Now for all of you racist and conspiracy freaks who believed, and or spewed all that crap about Obama, I have somethin...
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2008-11-05  Saurly Yours
To My Liberal and/or Socialist FriendsCongratulations. Barack Obama ran a brilliant campaign, he is an impressive orator, and highly intelligent as well as very hard-working. In many ways, he earned the Presidency.Now you can move on to another blog, as the rest of this particular po...
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2008-11-05  Ragebot
From the iNews 9000 Turbo wi-fi headline translator– Headline: Arnie ribs ‘puny’ Obama Translation: Pot calls kettle a spare tire Headline: McCain appears on TV’s Saturday Night Live Translation: New catch phrase “Vote for me or die at the hands of shado...
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2008-11-05  Catharsis
  So, here we are.  For once in a long, long, long time, our country pulled its head out of its ass and did the right thing.  Even Florida did the right thing which is truly amazing given the circumstances with their confusing,  archiac paper ballots. Today I have experienced bot...
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2008-11-05  Gateway Pundit
This was Sarah Palin's sendoff back to Alaska...Governor Sarah Palin responded to the nasty anonymous rumors that were reported earlier after the campaign loss: FOX News reporter Carl Cameron earlier on Wednesday smeared Governor Palin with several horrible anonymous attacks from M...
2008-11-05  The Blue Voice
Even some of my hardcore Democratic friends think I'm being a bit uncharitable in grumping about the bold Maverick's concession speech Tuesday.Here's what most bugged me the most. These are the opening paragraphs as rendered by McClatchy:Thank you. Thank you, my friends. Thank you for ...
Yesterday, Barack Obama was a senator from Illinois. Today, he's our president-elect. A historic moment for our country, capped off by a historic speech.Throughout his campaign, Obama's presidential demeanor was impressive. Sometimes I wished he could have let a little more humor and l...
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2008-11-05  antimisandry.com
Obama disagrees with high court on child rape case Wed Jun 25, 2008 5:07 PM EDT Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama says the option should be available to use the death penalty in child rape and other cases. Images (showing 1 of 2 photos) CHICAGO — Democrat...
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Gather 'round, my children, and ye shall hear of the smiling dragon that was Barack Hussein Obama and whom neither John McCain nor his patron saint George could slay.It started out so promisingly for poor John McCain. He won Kentucky's eight electoral votes, outstripping Barack Obama's...
2008-11-05  The Rude Pundit
Time to Rub Their Fucking Faces in It:A wiser, more prescient-thinking nation would have done this four years ago. But, no, no. It wasn't enough that America had been bent over a pommel horse and fucked by the uncircumcised cock of the Bush administration. We had to be raped, raped ...
2008-11-05  Facebook Blog
It was an extraordinary day. Election Day in the U.S. brought Americans to the polls in record numbers. The election of Barack Obama as America's 44th President was both historic and emotional. It was an unforgettable finish to the campaign; a moment to be shared in homes, schools, wo...
2008-11-05  Bob Barr 2008 Blog
That is what Bob told supporters last night in Marietta: “I don’t know about you, but I feel like celebrating tonight,” the Libertarian nominee proclaimed as he bounded on stage in a crowded function room at the Mansour Center in Marietta. “We want to tell the American people: ...
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2008-11-05  joanjoyce
I wish come 2010 Filipino Politicians will learn from this election. No more complains that I was cheated and concedes whole heartedly and will just support the winning candidate. McCain’s gestures of humility is the kind of politician we need and American’s achievement ...
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After the record setting 2004 election, the predictions were that 2008 was going to be another banner year for voter participation.As it turns out, that was the case:More than 130 million people turned out to vote Tuesday, the most ever to vote in a presidential election. With ballots ...
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2008-11-05  flowing motion
A defining moment The early hours of this morning, Wednesday 5 November 2008, were one those times when we will ask “where were you when  . . .”. Stomach-wrenching The long wait for the election results during the night was stomach-wrenching.  I flipped from one service t...
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2008-11-05  Eric Sundwall.com
Was it the Return of Jason that brought IPR down the morning after ? Is the Last Free Voice that of Elf Ninos Dad ? Poor Third Party Watch, does anyone care anymore ? How did George do up in New Hampshire ? What about Bob ? In NY, the LPNY collected more signatures than votes it seems....
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For the first time in a long time, I have hope for my country. I am so very excited and touched by the outcome of the election. I am so very grateful. Obama is truly a great man, and I know he will change so many things about our country, and teach Americans how each of us can be be...
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Yes, I voted for Obama.  Let's move on.Now that we've moved from watching the pundits talk about the upcoming election, to talking heads talking about what this means for America, I think for some people America change radically last night, and for others it didn't change so much.I've...
Robert Timberg B000W7KNMG
McCain is a bon vivant. He likes the booze. He loves to conquer women. He does not work. He is the grand-son and the son of the U.S. Navy amirals. In short, Robert Timberg gives us a portrait of a spoiled child, very proud of himself, very egocentric. Just the Vietnam War. At the 3r...
$11.99 : Americans McCain
Dr. Mrs. Clio and I went to vote at 6:05 a.m., and you see above what we found. That's a line that stretched out of the Xavier Prep parking lot and all the way around the block. Normally we walk right into the cafeteria and stand behind maybe one person. I'm really glad people are ...
For weeks, John McCain's crowds have been filled with what Sarah Palin might call "real Americans"--flag waving red staters, with hunting hats, facial hair and well-worn jeans. Classic rock and contemporary country played at events. By contrast, McCain's Election Night celebration has ...
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2008-11-04  Washington Scandal
Just watched John McCain deliver his concession speech out in Arizona, his wife and family by his side. Looking at the bottom of my TV screen, see the Electoral Vote currently stands at 338 for Obama and 155 for McCain with some yellow states (undecided) still not called. It is officia...
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2008-11-04  Thoughtskoto
Election can be watched hereIf you want a state by state race result, watch it here as it unfolds.The most comprehensive US Online Hour by Hour Election Result of the 2008 US Presidential "A record 130 million or more Americans are expected to cast ballots in an election that has ...
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2008-11-04  Doralicious
I consider myself lucky, for I am one of those few Filipinos who had the chance to visit the Democratic National Committee Headquarters and the Republican National Committee Headquarters during election season … not just any regular election, but the election that is probably conside...
2008-11-04  Smart Mobs
It is the 4th of November, 2008. Today, we are privileged to be able to witness and experience one of the most anticipated elections in the history of all democracies. As Americans head to the polls to elect their representatives to government, as well as vote on legislative issues,...
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2008-11-04  Roger's Rules
As I write on Tuesday afternoon, no one knows who will win the Presidential election–that is to say, almost everyone except me thinks he knows that it will be a slam-dunk for Obama. Maybe they’re right. Maybe in the future we should dispense with elections and just have an ...
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2008-11-04  Cruel Virgin
Photo Courtesy of Pug--Obey the Pug! I just finished watching Senator John McCain's concession speech. Hate him or love him, John McCain just showed some real class. This is the man I respected; I mourned his loss over these past months. I'm seen a lot of elections, but I've never wi...
Rest of the world, it's o.k., we're back on our meds. The prodigal nation has returned.Random thoughts about the election:Obama won in large part because he ran a different sort of campaign in so many ways: (1) No drama. Discipline. The focus was always on Obama and never on the i...
2008-11-04  Matthew Yglesias
Paul Krugman writes: A magnificent victory for Barack Obama. And bear in mind that the campaign, in its final stages, was really about different philosophies of governing. This wasn’t like the 2004 campaign, which was essentially fought over fake issues — Bush running on national ...
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Video On Demand $0.00 : Americans McCain
After defeating John McCain in Virginia, Ohio, Iowa and Florida and leading in Electoral College votes, Barack Obama made history Tuesday night by becoming the nation's first black president. "Change has come to America," he told an estimated 125,000 supporters who cheered him on in Gr...
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2008-11-04  moongirl
I’ve been watching CNN all morning. When they announced that Barack Obama would be the next president of the United States, I started crying. It’s insane! I’m not even American! And people who know me will tell you that I’m not a very “political” pe...
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2008-11-04  Change the Wind
Maya Angelou is such a wise woman. She has this amazing way of inspiring us with the poetic expression of our own thoughts. Here are her comments about our responsibility as citizens on election day and after: "What I've encouraged voters to do is to vote for the person I am extolling,...
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Election day is finally here after campaigns that went on forever. Will the results of the Presidential election impact the lot of entrepreneurs?Both Obama and McCain speak of their support for small business. Both speak of the American spirit.I believe both are philosophically aligned...
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2008-11-04  I&D Blog
“I think we’ll be analyzing this election for years as a seminal, transformative race,” said Mark McKinnon, a senior adviser to President Bush’s campaigns in 2000 and 2004. “The year campaigns leveraged the Internet in ways never imagined. The year we went to warp speed. The ...
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2008-11-04  The Moon's Favors
How these gibbering numbskulls came to dominate WashingtonThe degradation of intelligence and learning in American politics results from a series of interlocking tragediesGeorge Monbiot, The Guardian,Tuesday October 28 2008**********Thank you, George. He hits it on the head.Have argued...
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2008-11-03  Poli Tsk Tsk Tsk
Although this list below doesn't tally up every American, Poli Tsk Tsk Tsk's unofficial assessment of special interests groups calls the election overwhelmingly for John McCain and Sarah Palin. You heard it here first.The Retarded: The McCain/Palin ticket has won the retarded vote acc...
, obama , mccain , palin , election , polls
2008-11-03  furia log
Thanks to the collapse of the imaginary-asset industry in the US in the months just before the 2008 presidential election, we have had an unusual opportunity to observe both major candidates actually dealing with a perceived national crisis as presumptive leaders. And thus we have lear...
2008-11-03  Afarensis
Whether it be the national campaign run by McCain and Palin or local campaigns such as those run by Dole and Bachmann the Republicans have run some of the most vile, hate filled campaigns that I can remember. My plea for tomorrow is that they all lose so badly that the label "Republica...
, Politics
   
$20.00 : Americans McCain
      This is a nervous nation. Though I'm usually allergic to paranoia, something makes me think that there's a back office in the US Treasury that is buying the entire Dow Jones Industrial Index at opportune moments -- like fifteen minutes before the closing bell -- at t...
, Commentary
2008-11-03  LiberalDesert
For Change. Real ChangeI had thought that we weren’t supposed to do election stuff beginning this weekend, but my opposite number did a piece entitled “Democratic victory can only bring danger” (no exclamation points, but you could feel they were supposed to be there), which you...
2008-11-03  CHATTER
Even the shouting is over, and for this we give thanks. The 527s focused a concentrated beatdown on Barack Obama in the final weekend before the election, but it all seemed forced, a rote throat ripping that did little more than nick the skin.A couple weeks ago we said Obama would prob...
, Mainstream , Future , Politics , Elections
Tomorrow, Americans across the country will vote (or finish voting), and we want you to find as much information as you'd like concerning this historic 2008 election. Here are three steps for getting the full scoop:1) Get informedTo use Google tools that will help inform you before you...
, politics
A recent New Yorker article by James Wood talks about the "Republican war on words." Wood notes the criticism that Obama has received for being "a man of words," and for his eloquence.  Republicans have latched on to this criticism all the way up and down, from the McCain campaign its...
Catching a ride with a moto-taxi today (motodop) I found myself subjected to a few questions.  Usually it’s “How old are you”, “What do you do”, “Do you want a Cambodian wife”, “How much money do you make”, “What country are ...
, current , Other , stuff , news
Dear reader it is that time of week again when we have a look at some of the interesting posts that can be found on weblogs throughout the internet. So without anymore ceremony here are my "accelerated links" for 11/02/2008:Newshounds with video from Fox News in which Ann Coulter liken...
2008-11-05  Stop the press!
There’s got to be one, and here we are. And here I am to tell you I was wrong. I didn’t think Barack Obama could win. I thought John POW War Hero Maverick Experienced McCain would pulverize him in at the ballot box. I didn’t think the Republicans would even need to ch...
, Things , Barack , change , election , politics
2008-11-07  The Radio Patriot
The New National AnthemI have to "axe" you somethin' -- have you see the video of the black schoolteacher in North Carolina berating a young student for supporting McCain?I just did. Link to it here. It's gone viral, it's infuriating, and it's a stunning example of what's happening i...
, Barack , Racism
2008-11-05  The Liberty Papers
Obviously, I disagree with the choice that 51% of Americans made last night, but in that choice, there are many aspects that I think are good things… perhaps great things. The first point, is that although the democrats are already trying to spin this as a huge numeric victory, i...
, Democracy , Election , Politics , Theory
Next week, I will be moderating an event hosted by the MIT Communications Forum and the Center for Future Civic Media which will reflect back on the role of digital media during the current Presidential campaigns. Here are the details: The campaign & the media, 2 Thursday, Nov. 13, 2...
, Comparative , civic , participation
Next week, I will be moderating an event hosted by the MIT Communications Forum and the Center for Future Civic Media which will reflect back on the role of digital media during the current Presidential campaigns. Here are the details: The campaign & the media, 2 Thursday, Nov. 13, 2...
, Comparative , civic , participation
2008-11-06  Jon Swift
Isn’t this a great country? This year’s presidential election proves that anything is possible in America, even a scary black man being elected President of the United States. Whether Obama was elected because of enormous voter fraud, liberal white guilt, an influx of new and ignor...
, Conservatives , Barack , 2008 , McCain , Michelle
Here's a little news that probably won't dominate the post-election punditry. More than 60% of voters considered Sen. Barack Obama a "liberal." And he won. Politico interviewed Sen. John McCain's long-time close aide Mark Salter, who revealed the result from the McCain campaign's own ...
, Democratic
2008-11-06  Harvard Magazine
Now that the 2008 presidential campaign has ended, it’s time to begin pondering its lessons; Humanities Center scholar-in-residence Kiku Adatto offered a first take on Wednesday in a luncheon talk hosted by the Committee on the Concerns of Women at Harvard. Adatto, a lecturer on ...
, Breaking
We’ve known since the first rebuking of the GOP in the 2006 election that 2008 was going to be a Democratic year. We all knew the party of the right would lose some additional ground in the U.S. House and Senate. But, as the dust settles in New Mexico, it’s becoming clear that this...
, 2008 , Diary
'I am super proud to be an American,' one excited voter said.By Jocelyn Vena Crowds in Times Square celebrate President Obama's victory Photo: Julie Jacobson/AP Daphne McWilliams has waited for this moment her whole life. She was born at the height of the civil rights move...
, News
2008-11-05  PORTER COUNTY (IN)
RED COUNTY (Indiana): Election Day 2008(11/03/2008)Powered by:CoveritLive Close 9:07 EDITOR: New to the Live Blog format, but here goes from Porter County Indiana. Some resources for Indiana breaking news: Hoosier AccessPorter County Politics (my own site)I'll po...
, LIVE , election , Indiana , live
2008-11-05  Hyphoid Logic
In my recently less-than-sporadic efforts to bring you the latest news, I'm sure I'll be the first to mention that Barack Obama won the election and will be the next president. I'm glad for this. The alternative was clearly a very poor one and, of course, we're all aware by now about...
, California , culture , fundamentalists , religion , marriage , sex , dubya , obama , past , mccain , disenlightenment , bigotry , science , politics
Putin to return to power? (Or, rather, to the title he used to hold?) Is President Dmitry Medvedev paving the way for some constitutional changes to bring Vladimir Putin back into the presidency? Furthermore, after this one little constitutional edit, why not some more? From the Financ...
2008-11-05  The Doc Whisperer
by Arianna Huffington excerpted from The Huffington Post Even if your candidate didn’t win tonight, you have reason to celebrate. We all do. Ten months ago, when Obama won in Iowa, we had a glimpse of what was possible and what became real tonight. What I wrote then about one st...
, Uncategorized , Obama
2008-11-03  Greg Palast
Monday 03 November 2008 by: Greg Palast, t r u t h o u t | Perspective It's November 5 and the nation is in shock. Media blame it on the "Bradley effect": Americans supposedly turned into Klansmen inside the voting booth, and Barack Obama turned up with 6 million votes less than calcul...
, Articles
2008-11-05  David Corn
It happened. Here's what I posted at MotherJones.com.... So who's a real American now? With his decisive triumph over Senator John McCain, Senate Barack Obama made obvious history: he is the first black (or biracial) man to win the presidency. But the meaning of his victory--in which...
, 2008election , 2008presidentialcampaign , barackobama , joebiden , johnmccain , sarahpalin
So Obama won, predictably I think. The McCain/Palin ticket was truly the perfect embodiment of everything the world hates about the USA. But that is not the important thing here. What is far more significant is that the McCain/Palin ticket also embodied what so many Americans hate a...
, McCain , racism , Barak , 2008
2008-11-05  Stumper
(Peter Dejong / AP)On Jan. 3, 2008, I arrived at the apartment of Paul Tewes, Barack Obama's Iowa state director, as the icy streets of downtown Des Moines filled with young Obamaniacs hugging and cheering, "We did it!" Upstairs, scruffy postcollegiate staffers squeezed between couches...
, Barack
2008-11-06  Blogometer
Bloggers on the left and right continue to debate the ideological implications of Barack Obama's victory. Liberal bloggers believe that Obama's win -- along with the increased Dem majorities in the House and Senate -- gives Dems a clear mandate. Conservative bloggers, on the other hand...
2008-11-07  Sadly, No!
Shorter Every Post at Ace Of Spades HQ That Was Posted by Ace in the Roughly Four and One-Half Hours Between 4:15pm and 8:49pm on Thursday, November 6: Comedians Declare They Just Can’t Find Anything At All Funny About Barack Obama —Ace Comedians are demonstrated to have a lib...
, Uncategorized
2008-11-07  Dandelion Salad
Dandelion Salad by Eric Sommer Global Research November 5, 2008 The Western media has recently outdone itself in censoring important stories - stories which contradict the policies and interests the media seeks to uphold.. Western publics have been systematically misled in recent w...
, CIA , Chavez-Hugo , China , Economy , Georgia , Germany , Japan , Media , News , Politics , Russia , The , Venezuela , World
2008-11-07  Featured Stories
Top Stories for the Week of November 3 -7, 2008 History was written by the victors in the old days. These days both sides blog it. Take this week's postmortems on the Sarah Palin candidacy, please. Righty-tighty Fox News followed up a Newsweek story about Palin shopping sprees with dir...
CNN Anchor Campbell Brown let the McCain campaign have it last night over the attempts to throw Sarah Palin under the bus and blame her for the loss on election night. Among other things, Brown said: You are the ones who supposedly vetted her, and then told the American people she ...
2008-11-07  The Moderate Voice
The tidal wave of global reaction to the election of President-elect Barack Obama is enough to make a foreign desk editor cry over what to do next. Coming later today will be articles from Russia and Iraq. Here are just a few of the many stories posted on WORLDMEETS.US in the past 24 ...
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Dandelion Salad by Eric Sommer Global Research November 5, 2008 The Western media has recently outdone itself in censoring important stories - stories which contradict the policies and interests the media seeks to uphold.. Western publics have been systematically misled in recent w...
2008-11-06  Dissident Voice
Election night 2008 was over by 11 PM eastern time. Only two hours after the polls closed on the west coast, pundits called it for Barack Obama. Now that we know a black boy can indeed grow up to be president, it’s time to get over ourselves, over our wonder and amazed self-congr...
, "Third , Activism , Democrats , Economy/Economics , Elections , Obama
In his campaign, President-elect Obama did not promise or even advocate a universal healthcare system controlled by the government. Indeed, he referred to government-run healthcare as an “extreme” option that ought to be avoided. Instead, he advocated a system in which peop...
, Gekkonian , Healthcare , Investment
2008-11-06  BlogHer
I was going to talk about the rather chilly racial climate in Toronto post-presidential election, but this piece caught my eye. Sex columnist Dan Savage opined over the demise of Proposition 8 in Florida -and guess who is accused of its downfall? I’m not sure what to do with this....
, Feminism , GLBT , Politics , Race, , Religion , Sex
2008-11-06  Pen and Sword
by Jeff HuberPart I outlined the neocons' "resurgence" strategy. Part II discusses how Barack Obama may be steering us toward a neo-neoconservativism. The Bush administration celebrated Barack Obama's victory in the presidential election by blowing away another Afghan wedding party....
2008-11-06  Let's Talk
Video from HotAirSo this is how McCain and Fox reward their looser, but more important this was the kind of information withheld from the average Joe.McCain and Fox knew Sarah Palin did not qualify to be Vice President as was George Bush. They withheld information vital to Americans m...
2008-11-06  Hugo Schwyzer
It has become almost axiomatic in American politics that one of the biggest divides among voters is that between the married and the unmarried, particularly women. The exit poll data from Tuesday’s election makes clear that if anything, this divide is growing. Married People (...
, Family , Marriage , Money , Politics
2008-11-06  HoosierAccess
Election Day has come and gone and my Political Party’s nominee for President has lost. I am disappointed but not disheartened. I am looking forward to the debate within the Republican Party to find our true core again. A couple of things first, congratulations to President-elect Oba...
, Elections
2008-11-06  
Wow! Watching history being made with @h_smith. Remarkable. 07:06 PM November 04, 2008 from txt That was my Tweet that I texted from my phone when I found out Barack Obama won the election. That Tweet was delivered from Twitter, to Facebook, automatically updating my Facebook status...
, COLLEGE , Culture , Daily , PERUSING , People , Technology , politics , social , Christians , conservatives , Facebook , McCain , micro-blogging , Obama , speech , Tweet , Twitter , update
2008-11-06  Raw Dawg Buffalo
So it is finally over, or is it? True, I was wrong about whom I thought would win based on a history of 43 prior white men, but as for my reasoning I was not. This past 22 months has reinforced all of the positions I have laid out in text from my dissertations regarding the economy t...
, Cuba , John , Barack , Iran , Putin , Middle , Russia , economy , Dow , Iraq , The , Latin , Rahm
2008-11-06  JakeBouma.com
Back in June, I wrote a post entitled Are evangelicals abandoning their political agenda? in which I argued that there was a shift happening in the American religio-political scene. I said: Either way, the evangelical agenda of old doesn’t carry the same weight as it used to. The rei...
, Faith/Theology , Politics/Current , barack , christianity , democrat , election , evangelical , exit , politics , religion , republican
2008-11-05  Buzzard Blog
Election Day is over. Barack Obama is America's President-elect, the first biracial man, the first man of African American descent, to serve as our country's leader. This is a massive moment for America. It was only a generation ago that segregation laws perpetuated racism in ...
, Culture , Current , S.F.
I don't have to tell most of you that John McCain was a fighter pilot in the Navy during the Vietnam War. I don't have to tell you that he was shot down, captured, held prisoner and tortured by the Vietnamese for 5 and a half years. And I don't mean the kind of torture that we do in G...
, Jihad
Because of the campaign's relentless focus on the economy, another aspect of yesterday's win has gotten far too little attention: It represented a crushing victory for globalism and true foreign policy "realism" over GOP militarism, jingoism, and delusions about American power. Consid...
, Barack , John
Here’s a summary of the smartest new political analysis on the Web: by Sara Murray and Gerald F. Seib President-elect Barack Obama, left, and Vice President-elect Joe Biden wave after Obama’s acceptance speech at his election night party at Grant Park in Chicago, ...
, Political
2008-11-05  Dissident Voice
The Real News executive editor and host Paul Jay moderated a productive and informative dialog between Ralph Nader, Tom Morris, and Bill Fletcher on election night. While millions of young activists around the nation cast their ballots for Obama’s convincing rhetoric of change, t...
, "Third , Activism , Democracy , Democrats , Elections , Right
I was convinced that the only way Barack Obama could win, the only path that didn't lead to Losertown or Wussville, was for him to channel the nation's outrage and eviscerate John McCain. In my dream scenario, Obama would have turned to him at the last debate, cited a few of the scumm...
“My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.” — Gerald R. Ford, (1974) McCain gave a somewhat gracious concession speech tonight while Palin stood nearby speechless and tearful. Obama delivered a very serious yet emotional acceptance speech. The massi...
, Democrats , Election , Biden , election , McCain , Obama , Palin , portrait , president , presidential
2008-11-05  The Swamp
by Laura Olson The youth voters who came out strong for Barack Obama during the primaries appear to have done so again to bring him to the White House. Initial figures on the youth turnout from CIRCLE, a research group that studies youth civic engagement, show at least a slight incre...
, Voting
2008-11-05  CIRCLE
About 22-24 Million Young Americans Go to the Polls: Up by at Least 2.2 Million from 2004 Young voters favor Obama over McCain 66% to 32%; 18% of all voters were young Conference Call-in Press Briefing to Discuss 2008 Youth Vote, 2 PM ET, Nov. 5
The dial-in number for the call is 8...
, Political
We vote in the local fire house Originally uploaded by betsythedevine And yes, we did! Thank you, America, for electing Barack Obama. I predict a new surge in American productivity, starting right NOW, as millions of us start to break our time-sucking addiction to political mi...
, Cambridge , Editorial , Wide , politics , election , mccain , obama
The Rude Pundit, as always, reaches deep into the American id and finds precisely the right words.Triple-X rated, but ignore your tender sensibilities and read it. You'll be glad you did.Still afraid? Here are the R-rated closing grafs, to give you a hint of what you're missing.Final...
, 2008
2008-11-05  Eh-Lee-Hee-Oh
Obama’s Victory Speech Video Finally, after a long hard battle by Senator Barack Obama, he is now officially the President of the United States. He is the first black president of the United States over a landslide victory against Senator John McCain. His election as president may p...
, Blogging , 270 , barack , democratic , first , john , landslide , president , presidential , united , winner
2008-11-05  Jackson Miller
I have been saying this for a few days on Twitter, but I wanted to post it here in a little more depth. The greatest thing to come out of the 2008 Presidential Election may very well be the subsequent redefining of the Republican Party. I am pretty stoked that Obama is going to be our ...
, philos , 2008 , poitics
2008-11-05  FOX Embeds
AFP Photo-Phoenix, AZ PHOENIX—Holding her 6-month-old baby, Trig and wearing a blue “Alaska Grown” sweatshirt, Sarah Palin walked over to a few members of her press corps to answer some final questions before heading back to Wasilla, Alaska. Palin reflected on her brief candidac...
, Barack , Blogroll , John , barack , john , Piper , Sarah , Trig
2008-11-05  Southern Appeal
Back when I was a student of political science, we spent a lot of time discussing the bell curve theory of American politics.  The idea was simple.  Americans are supposedly arrayed along an ideological spectrum.  The vast majority of voters are in the center, while small nu...
, 2008
It would be entirely wrong to assume that Barak Obama’s victory in the American presidential race indicated a decline in the religious factor in American politics. The Democratic party have had to learn, again and again, that to ignore the strongly religious component in their co...
, emerging , politics , barak
2008-11-05  Uveal Blues
From the Cato Institute...Left-liberal groups are quick to declare Barack Obama’s win a broad endorsement of the “progressive” agenda, their highly inaccurate name for more taxes, more spending, more entitlements, and more regulation. After a trillion-dollar increase in federal s...
, politics
UPDATE: here is what the status of Prop 8 in California is at the moment (from No on 8).Nov 05, 2008 Results StatusRoughly 400,000 votes separate yes from no on Prop 8 – out of 10 million votes tallied.Based on turnout estimates reported yesterday, we expect that there are more than ...
, usa , proposition , obama , president , mccain , elections , political , no
Happy to report that my husband and I, with school-aged children in tow, voted at 7:15 am yesterday morning. Within 10 minutes of arrival at our precinct on 60th Street and Park Avenue, we were on our way to work and school. Later in the day, I wandered the city to see what was happe...
As the results came in across the U.S., another unofficial contest was taking place in Beijing. There, more than 1,000 Chinese and Americans crowded a hotel ballroom to watch the results and cast their ballots. The event, sponsored by the U.S. Embassy and the American Chamber of Commer...
, International , Government
2008-11-05  Donklephant
We’ve been told today that yesterday wasn’t just a win for Obama…it was a win for American democracy. People were finally energized to come out to the polls and both candidates broke records for the amount of votes they received. However…where are the totals ...
, 2008 , Voting
2008-11-05  MotherPie
One third of eligible American voters didn't vote.  So 7 out of 10 eligible voters either voted for McCain (or someone else) or didn't vote.   Barack Obama had 3 in 10 eligible voters who pulled the lever for him.  Just thought I'd give you a statistic you probably ...
, Culture
It'll be easy for many to forget that--in addition to stunning wins in the red states of Ohio, Florida, Indiana, North Carolina, Nevada, Colorado, Virginia, New Mexico, and Iowa--President-Elect Obama came within single digits of wins in seven additional deep-red states: Montana, Mis...
2008-11-05  The Peking Duck
[I just posted this as a comment to the thread below, and then decided it merited a post of its own. Let this be my way of saying goodnight on this great day for America, and the world.] This is richard, burnt out after a long day. Thanks for all the comments. What we saw today was a t...
, General
"We should not be seduced by the notion that Obama's presidency signals the end of racism, the civil rights movement, the struggle for black equality or the careers of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton." -Michael Eric Dyson, LA Times, TodayI think that's true. But really! This IS history w...
, Race , Politics , Leah
2008-11-05  Exurban League
Reading through zillions of blogs on the right and left, there's little original left to say.Obviously, I wanted McCain to win this race, but the electorate disagreed. Obama won convincingly, with current numbers of 52% to 46% in the popular vote and a probable electoral final of 364-1...
, Jon , Politics
The Republican party woke up yesterday not only to the certainty of an Obama presidency, but to an America in which the electoral map had been redrawn and the political alliance that has been at the core of the conservative movement for the last 30 years blown to pieces.The results lea...
, Internet , Technology , US , Republicans , United , World
2008-11-05  All This Is That
By Pablo Fanque, All This Is That National Affairs EditorThe raw tally: Obama: 58,581,942; McCain: 52,925,833; House of Representatives: Democrats up 12; U.S. Senate: up 5.Barack Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States Tuesday night, kicking off an all-new chapter in ...
, President
A few years ago, the novelist Philip Roth published a book called The Plot Against America. The book takes a sort of historical “what if?” as its premise: Roth imagines that Charles Lindbergh defeated FDR in the 1940 presidential election. The real life Lindbergh was more...
, Elections
2008-11-05  FRONT PAGE
Thank Christ you Americans have come to your senses and didn't fall for the ra-ra patriotic bullshit and outright lies peddled by that warmonger McCain. And let's not even mention the running-mate retard from Alaska. Best part is even the House of Reps and the Senate have increased the...
Can we start measuring the drapes, now? This is dedicated to Hecate, who recommended the song to me under other circumstances. I've been saving it for a really good day, and I think this it it. This last one is especially for Bill Kristol. Thr...
2008-11-05  Umair Haque
It's a momentous day for America - and the world. Barack Obama is poised to take the reins of the Presidency. So how did this unlikeliest of candidates do it? How did Obama utilize radically asymmetrical competition to shatter Washington's toxic, bitter 20th century status quo? The mo...
2008-11-05  FOX Embeds
AFP Photo-Phoenix, AZ PHOENIX—Holding her 6-month-old baby, Trig and wearing a blue “Alaska Grown” sweatshirt, Sarah Palin walked over to a few members of her press corps to answer some final questions before heading back to Wasilla, Alaska. Palin reflected on her brief candidac...
, Barack , Blogroll , John , barack , john , Piper , Sarah , Trig
2008-11-05  Xark!
1. The big split in the electorate isn't conservatives and liberals, or blacks and whites. It's young and old. Teens and twentysomethings broke blue at a 66 percent clip, while voters 30-64 (that's two-thirds of the electorate) backed Obama by a narrow margin. Only the 65-and-older gro...
2008-11-05  Phronesisaical
Last night, the champagne, wine and Jubilation Ale having washed in waves across the 15 or so people at my place who were following the election returns, I admit I had a moment of petulance when McCain gave his concession speech. I was unable to articulate why at the time. But I think ...
2008-11-04  Wired: Threat Level
Barack Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States Tuesday night, crowning an improbable two-year climb that owes much of its success to his command of the internet as a fundraising and organizing tool. Obama was winning 51 percent of the nation's popular vote...
, Election
2008-11-04  38 Pitches
What a night. I’ve never in my life paid as much attention to a campaign as I have this one, and especially tonight. Proud to know more Americans voted yesterday than at any time in this countries history. Congratulations to everyone that made their voice heard yesterday. Senator...
, Family , General , Life
1. As you head out to vote today, consider the price of your vote: Obama spent more than $639 million on his campaign. McCain is estimated to have spent $335 million. (Federal Election Commission) It's worth noting too that Obama announced his candidacy on February 10, 2007, almost 21 ...
2008-11-04  A Startup A Day
Here’s the deal - in the 1.7 years I’ve been running this blog, I’ve made a very deliberate point not to post anything that isn’t related to startup ideas. However, today is a very, very, very important day and I want to do whatever I can to encourage you to ge...
, Uncategorized
2008-11-04  unbrainwashed
.....but I didn't vote for Barack Obama.I've been voting since 1980. In that election, I cast my vote for John Anderson. he was an independent, much like Ron Paul, who ran in the primaries as a Republican, generating a large following, then losing the nomination to Ronald Reagan. So, i...
, Cynthia , vote
So today is the day that Americans decide whether Obama wins or McCain wins. Although much of the planet is already pulling for some “Barack and Roll” in the White House, it seems that there are some rather interesting opinions about the World Favourite in these elections....
, Bikes , Charity , Food , McCain , Motorcycle , Obama , Olympic , Palin
LEARNING ABOUT THE ELECTION | November 4th 2008 Educating students about the election means more than simply discussing the issues, writes Ariel Ramchandani. Savvy teachers know to take students into the spin-zone ... From INTELLIGENT LIFE magazine, Autumn 2008 "Lockbox". Al Gore...
, Issues
2008-11-04  feRn's backyaRd
America's first black president, Barack Obama, was elected last Tuesday night in a historic triumph that overcame racial barriers as old as America itself.The son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas, the Democratic senator from Illinois sealed his victory by def...
, United , President , Black , Barack , America
8.01- Obama has won the first 1% of Indiana. Big whoop. Only a turkey would live in Indiana.8.03- McCain wants to cut taxes for decent hard-working Americans. How right the Vietnamese were to bayonet him! 8.04- I went to Vietnam for a holiday and not once did I get bayoneted. Not once....
The only thing that one could not bear to hear, over the last few days, was the safety-first pundit mantra "too close to call". That impossible verdict was the only result that one could not properly visualise. It was plain that this was not a margin-of-error election, or a split-the...
, Election , america , barackobama , christopherhitchens , johnmccain , president , vote , whitehouse
Americans tonight placed their faith in Barack Obama, who made history by becoming the first African-American to win the US presidency.Scenes of jubilation broke out among Democratic supporters as the US TV networks at 4am GMT declared that the inexperienced but inspirational Democrat...
, news , announcement , celebrations
2008-11-04  Mommy CEO
It’s amazing to me that such a large percentage of eligible voters are either not registered or, even if they are, simply don’t vote. Only 54% of Americans who can VOTE actually do. This is appalling. America is 35th in the world in voter turnout. Italy gets 90%, Germany ge...
, work/life , election , obama
As the United States selects its new leader, those of us unable to vote are also holding our breath, waiting for the outcome. What does this have to do with Product Management?  My answer: (i) candidate positioning is, after all, positioning, and I wrote earlier about how I would writ...
, Alan , Product
2008-11-03  Tully's Page
For the first time in my life, I am compeltely apathetic over who wins a presidential election.In past years, I would have been furtively following every issue, writing on my blog, writing to the papers, standing with a sign, and posting a sticker everywhere I could.This year, I am int...
, Bob , president , John , Obama , election
2008-11-03  PR-Bridge
Scholars will examine the 2008 presidential campaign for a long, long time. The money spent by each candidate guarantees this, particularly the tremendous advantage Barack Obama has wield in the battle with John McCain. While most of the major polls — like Yahoo! with its scor...
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2008-11-03  the defeatists!
Well, despite the hysteria emanating from various parts of the liberal world, Crusader AXE is reasonably sure that Barrack Obama will win the election tomorrow, that the sun will both rise and set and rise again, and while things may ultimately change for the better, ultimately is a lo...
, Current
In a little over a day millions of Americans are going to exercise their right to vote, this year they get a chance to be heard concerning who the next President of the United States of America will be. It doesn’t matter one iota if you are riding high on the “Obama Love T...
, Politics , 2008 , 2008 , 2008 , McCain , McCain , Obama , Obama
2008-11-02  Not Even Modern
Via Victor Reppert, a pretty atrocious piece in New Scientist about the looming threat of Creationism to neuroscience.First, I have to state I intensely dislike both the big pop science mags, New Scientist and Scientific American. For two reasons. First, they seem to be attracted to ...
Strategic threat or law enforcement problem? In John McCain’s final scramble for votes last week, there was a revealing moment in Tampa Bay, when he seemed to dismiss the economic crisis that will probably take a decade to fix, and urge undecided voters to instead focus on what ...
, Situation , Al , Bin , Bush , mccain , Obama , war
2008-11-06  Gates of Vienna
The accolades for the One from all over the world continue tonight. If you have the stomach for them, they’re included here.Also notable is a suicide-bomber video game in which the score is based on how many innocent women and children you kill. I’ll bet that one’s a hit in the T...
2008-11-05  RADARSITE
America, America, what have you done?A confederation of dunces and traitors has delivered us unto our enemies. They have dealt this great nation of ours a deadly blow from which we may never recover, and they rejoice over the enormity of the wound. Already the voices of reconciliation...
2008-11-05  Maggie's Notebook
America, America, what have you done?A confederation of dunces and traitors has delivered us unto our enemies. They have dealt this great nation of ours a deadly blow from which we may never recover, and they rejoice over the enormity of the wound. Already the voices of reconciliation...
Barack Obama's huge victory on Tuesday night was celebrated in Germany, as it was around the world. The tone of anti-Americanism which has prevailed over the past eight years suddenly vanished, and even the most cynical journalists were moved to extol the historic victory as a...
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We know that John McCain lost because he was a shorter, angrier version of George W. Bush. The wingnuts, however, have other ideas: Ace of Spades - we lost because McCain wouldn’t let Sarah Palin drill in ANWR. American Thinker - we lost because we nominated a Reagan Democrat. Ma...
, Election
Earlier this year, I held out great hope for Sen. Barack Obama amongst attacks from Sen. Hillary Clinton. I felt some of the attacks were racist. And in a multicultural United States, there was no room for that.The same motive saw me pointing out that there were elements about the f...
2008-11-04  Jules Crittenden
CNN, Fox calling it, get used to it … PRESIDENT OBAMA. Gloat, mourn, buck up as you choose in comments. Blair, Four Years of Joe. He doesn’t mean “The Plumber.” Old News Flash: Dixville Notch votes Democratic for the first time since 1968 … What? Dixville ...
, America , pols
2008-11-07  Think Progress
Reeling from Tuesday’s widespread losses, yesterday “about 20 political strategists and social and fiscal conservative leaders met” to discuss the future of the movement at the home of Brent Bozell, head of the right-wing Media Research Center. Describing the meeting ...
, Radical , Media , Obama , Radical
2008-11-07  Marc Ambinder
Just sent to McCain supporters:Cindy and I would like to take a moment to thank you for your loyal and steadfast support during the course of this campaign. Governor Palin, her husband Todd, our families, friends and campaign staff extend our deep appreciation for your tireless dedicat...
The perpetually silly Jeff Jacoby wrote in the Boston Globe that Sarah Palin "...demonstrated star power as she withstood with aplomb and good humor a vicious assault from the left." That is to laugh a hearty laugh, even by winger standards. Exhibiting Dan Quayle-style ignorance and d...
Speaking to tens of thousands of his supporters in Chicago's Grant Park, President-elect Barack Obama said his smashing victory was not about him but about "you." In his effort to unify, he meant all of America, but he also was crediting a very special group of people - his "peacetime...
I’ve recently received several emails from non-blogging friends with links to Paul Boutin’s Wired Magazine article announcing the death of blogs. I, of course, send them right to Alan Levine’s response and then shrug and also point to some of the blogging my former s...
, Leaving , Students , community , politics , Obama , students
2008-11-06  BlatherWatch
Conventional wisdom says conservative talk radio won a big one Tuesday. The theory this week is that it needs underdog status and always does better when it's them-against-the-world.(The talk radio tiger is notably paper) Michael Harrison, publisher of the trade magazine Talkers...
, Barack , Democrats , Dori , Dr. , John , Kirby , KVI , Laura , Media , Politics , Pray , radio , Republicans , Talk
2008-11-06  An American Gothic
We already know the Republican take ( spin ) on this issue. Obama wants to take our hard-earned dollars and give them to the poor and lazy. Yeah right. What the Republicans seem to forget is that one of their own once wanted to spread the wealth also. CommonDreams Publ...
I want to get this down while it's still fresh in my mind:Work shut down at 3 p.m. on the recommendation of the city, due to transportation concerns and all the people heading down to Grant Park for the celebration. I changed into my Obama t-shirt, repacked my purse with essentials (bi...
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2008-11-05  Top of the Ticket
Among the avalanche of congratulatory statements crafted by friends and foes of Barack Obama in the wake of his White House win, many Democrats will cast an especially cold eye on this one. It came via e-mail today from Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Democrat-turned-independent-turned-John ...
, Campaigning , Congress , Democratic , Presidential , Republican , Senate
2008-11-05  a reader's words
Listening to the first debate between presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama, it was very evident that it was a contest between Tweedledum and Tweedledee. The two disagreed on the approach towards taxation and the American economy, but on every foreign policy issue, Obama...
, Politics , Obama
Sarah Palin barely waited for the dust to settle on the wreckage of the Republican party before offering herself as its saviour today.But while Palin's sights seem fixed on 2012 after the meteoric rise and fall of her 68 days on the national stage, it is far from clear her fellow Repub...
, US , Sarah , John , Republicans , World
The election of Barack Obama as 44th President of the United States was the fulfillment of the drream of Abraham Lincoln and Fredrick Douglas, who himself ran for the Republican nomination for President. Obama kicked off his campaing in Springfield, Illinois Lincolns home. His politic...
, Barack , U.S. , Abraham , Republicans , Democrats , Democrats
what i say next may not strike a chord with you. i would first like to admit that i am neither perfect, nor know-it-all. i give my views as a young Christian, non-American citizen, but as one who is concerned about the faith of the next US president. i thought whoever wrote obama̵...
, Christianity , my , presidential
2008-11-05  Hatchling
Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has. -Margaret Mead. I was inspired by the Obama victory today.  I work in a place where people watch politics pretty closely, so it was on the CNN all day.  We gathered round the TV for what I thought was a very gracious decline speech fro...
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2008-11-05  Cato-at-liberty
Left-liberal groups are quick to declare Barack Obama’s win a broad endorsement of the “progressive” agenda, their highly inaccurate name for more taxes, more spending, more entitlements, and more regulation. After a trillion-dollar increase in federal spending during...
, General , Government
2008-11-05  Right Pundits
Failing to seize on a historic moment of national reconciliation, Barack Obama delivered an election victory speech that was unfortunately long in partisan rhetoric but short in presidential stature. See the video below. The speech was particularly thin when juxtaposed against the m...
, Barack , Videos , speech
1) Congratulations to Obama and his supporters. I won't say it was an honorable, well-fought race (because national races haven't been like that in decades, if ever) but the man with the most votes won. Cleanly. And decisively. At least this time there's no controversy.2) However, ...
, Politics
         Echidne, forgive me for posting now instead of Friday, but I couldn't wait to share the good news of the meritocracy.         In McCain's concession speech, he implied that electing an African-American as president proves that anyone can succeed in this country if th...
2008-11-05  Mel-Anon
No need to wait for the morning news papes, getcher election news right here!...It appears Obama is going to win a major haul of electoral votes while slightly under-performing expectations in the overall popular vote. He's done this by eeking out some razor-thin margins, especially i...
2008-11-05  Blogometer
While most liberal bloggers expected Barack Obama to defeat John McCain by a sizeable margin, they were still thrilled when it happened. Lefty bloggers described Obama's victory as "overwhelming" and "extraordinary". Many felt "an immense sense of relief" that Americans chose to elect ...
2008-11-05  Daylight Atheism
The votes have been cast, the balloons have come down, the champagne has popped and the confetti has been thrown, and we're officially on the other side of the 2008 elections. Atheists and progressives have much to chew over in these results, and here are some preliminary thoughts of m...
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2008-11-04  Jeanne Dupuis
Today is the day.  The United States of America is currently in the process of electing a new leader.  For the first time in 24 years, there will not be a Clinton or a Bush in office - we’re starting fresh and I’m both exhilarated and terrified at the same time. I wonR...
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2008-11-04  Joyceyland
Never mind the creeping polls on CNN, John McCain has just made his concession speech. It's over!OK, Sarah Palin blinking back her crocodile tears behind those curtains of waterproof mascara was a little much. She put on that brave, weepy smile people reserve for funerals, probably whi...
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2008-11-05  Third Mom
More pictures to make you cry happy tears here at Huff Post. Hello, Chicago.If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our dem...
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2008-11-05  Illseed Blog
Hello, Chicago. If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer. It’s the answer told ...
, Barack , flavor , john , yes , sarah , joe , black , yes , chicago , delaware
2008-11-05  Virgotex
Hello, Chicago. If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer. It’s the answer told b...
, Flea , Howdy! , Metonymica , Persistent , The , Barack , Election , Grant
2008-11-06  Edger
There’s a lot of hope and excitement in the (more progressive) USA right now. Except of course at Pharyngula. Bitter ol’ PZ Myers (I know the man’s not truly bitter) wrote a couple of posts since the election of Barack Obama, which “pissed in peoples corn flak...
, Feature , America , Barack , democacy , Democratic , Democrats , election , electoral , electoral , GOP , John , McCain , Obama , politics , republican , Republicans , united , USA
2008-11-06  The Flack
For weary McCain staffers, the campaign is not over. Now comes the after-campaign, the period following a high profile loss when each failure is hashed and rehashed in the press and everyone with a score to settle goes on background with reporters to settle them. Did McCain attack t...
Over the last 7 months or so, I didn’t blog much as I would have liked. I certainly didn’t blog much at all about the election (and I guess most of what I felt I needed to say was said here). I would sit down and think of something, but it was difficult to translate my thoughts int...
2008-11-05  tonymorganlive.com
Last night I gathered with friends at my home and on the web to watch the election results. As I was taking in the evening, these were some thoughts that ran through my brain. Let me try to do this without acknowledging the candidate that received my vote. We’ve elected our firs...
, Other , politics
So who's a real American now? With his decisive triumph over Senator John McCain, Senate Barack Obama made obvious history: he is the first black (or biracial) man to win the presidency. But the meaning of his victory--in which Obama splashed blue across previously red states--extends...
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November 4, 2008- Before Poll Closed Here is the real-time election results widgets that will be shown Nov. 4, US time! Watch the electoral vote count and the congressional balance of power with the national U.S. map or choose a state and see how individual counties are voting. As soo...
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2008-11-04  Maggie's Mind
I was going to say some other stuff here today, but it will keep, I think. I understand that my non-American pals might be even beyond the stage of eyes glazed over, but I've not said much about the election here and I can't not say this.Regardless of the name you chose when you cast y...
Here’s an item which seemed appropriate and topical to me, given the occasion. (I refer, of course, to the occasion of Guy Fawkes Eve.) I rag on Utne, but of course the reason that I read them is that they do occasionally come through. For example, by reprinting this really exc...
, Bush , Civil , Election , Politics , Power , Re-barbarization , Smash , Barack , Gene , George , Guy , Guy , John , Phil , Randolph , Robert , Theodore , Utne
2008-11-03  ongoing
I must open with heartfelt thanks to all of you for the passion and drama and rhetoric and personality you’ve offered each other and the world, in the political-theatre context, for the last couple of years. Unless the tools of Statistics have suddenly become empty shells, Mr. Obam...
, The , The , Politics , The , Places , America
Barack Obama swept to victory as the nation's first black president Tuesday night in an electoral college landslide that overcame racial barriers as old as America itself. The son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas, the Democratic senator from Illinois sealed h...
As Obamaniacs whoop it up, the Right is undergoing the same self-examination it went through starting in 1977. Some decisions will be easy, others less so. Few will claim that “big government Republicanism” — or, as Goldwater referred to it, a “Dime Store New Deal&...
, Politics , Elections
2008-11-06  Ross Douthat
The nice thing about a resounding defeat is that everyone can look at the exit polls and find confirmation that the GOP needs to do better among their favored constituency. I can read the exits and see a party that lost six points, compared to 2004, among voters making $30,000 to $50,0...
, Culture , Politics , Social
2008-11-05  BlogHer
As Pierre Elliot Trudeau said to an American audience in 1969, "Living next to you is like sleeping with an elephant; no matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, one is affected by every twitch and grunt." America is not a beast but it cannot be denied that every twitch reve...
, Canada , Politics , Canadian , Election , patriotism
2008-11-05  Charlie's Diary
I'm writing this as a timed posting; assuming I did the setup right, you won't be reading this until polling has closed. I'm not American, and it's not really for me to tell those of you who are how you should vote. However ... If I was an American voter, I would have cast my vote fo...
2008-11-05  distributorcap NY
Well, at the risk of sounding cliche - the page has finally turned. We can actually countdown the days to the end of the Bush-pierre Reign of Terror (well he still has 70+ days to do a lot of damage).It was quite a night. Obama's speech was amazing. He is a once in a lifetime figure...
, John , Presidential , Sarah
2008-11-05  VARIOUS ECSTASIES
(photo by Ryan Cardone, found at http://www.filemagazine.com/thecollectio n/archives/cardone/index.html )Let's talk a bit about the election and what it means. To me, the pictures symbolizes not a person drowning, but rather someone who has been underwater a long time and who is now su...
2008-11-05  Brave the World!
Last night, I witnessed one of the seminal events of my lifetime. When CNN called the vote at 9 pm my local time, I did a double take. Could it really be that easy? I sat numbly for a moment, silently staring at the screen in front of me- afraid to blink lest it all disappear into the ...
Shashank writes on Somewhere in Africa,This morning as I left Congo and entered Rwanda, the immigration officer said to me and my American friend: So you'll be voting in Rwanda?We explained that both of us had already voted in the U.S. election, by mail. But the concept of absentee vot...
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2008-11-04  Compete Blog
As Americans head to the polls today, a look back at the closing weeks of the race reveals that Barack Obama increasingly distanced himself from John McCain in the online race as the election neared. Weekly unique visitors to Obama’s website (graphed below) quickly rose from 540,000 ...
, Politics
(Update: Due to a server issue, I was forced to finish these updates at Shakesville here. This post is now complete, with my work live-blogging the entire day on Fox News from (EST) 5:31 a.m. until 11:02 p.m. After Obama was declared the winner, I just couldn’t bring myself to wa...
, Politics , media
2008-11-06  The Mahablog
The Right is splintering into McCain and Palin camps. C’est une hoot. Faux News, a wholly owned subsidiary of the upper echelon of the Republican Party, is leading the charge against Palin. Even I think the “she’s so dumb she doesn’t know Africa is a co...
, Republican , conservatism , News , blogging
It's not the style. It's the substance that dictated the outcome of the election, which gave Sen. Barack Obama a larger share of the popular vote than either George W. Bush or Bill Clinton ever received. The backdrop of this election has long been the comprehensive failure of conserva...
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2008-11-05  EMILIE JOHNSON
Even if I am thousands of miles away from the United States, I had a shared experience this morning as I watched Barack Obama's victory flash across the screen. Tears. I cried. And I've cried all day - a deep welling up of emotion- ongoing. And so, like many other Americans, I've stepp...
, Politics
In a matter of hours Americans will go to the polls, bringing an end to one of the longest and most fascinating Presidential election campaigns in history.  It is an election that has captivated not just the US but the world.  The interest in Australia alone is unprecedented.  A lar...
, United , US , BarackObama , JohnMcCain , politics , US
2008-11-05  Wonk Room
Yesterday, despite conservative assertions that America is a “center right” country “not ready for a liberal agenda,” Americans loudly rejected the failed conservative ideology of the past eight years and embraced, with equal jubilation, Barack Obama’s p...
, Health , Health
2008-11-06  Health Beat
Long-term, Health Beat still expects that President-elect Barack Obama will reform healthcare. Originally (before the economic melt-down) he said that he hoped to roll out reform by the end of his first four years in office. Now, as Maggie indicated yesterday, he seems to be signalin...
Over the last two and one half years this blog has consistently and frequently made the case for divided government. On the eve of the midterm election in 2006, I wrote a post with the same title, summarizing the case for divided government and calling on voters to vote for Democratic...
, 2008 , libertarian , John , Barack , 2010 , divided
2008-11-06  Ficken Chingers
No I Didn't.I did not vote for Obama. That's right. I said it. I am not ashamed. I don't feel empty inside. I feel proud that I voted with my head and my heart. I am proud to be a VERY conservative Republican. I'm one of those right-wingers which people like to make fun of. McCain wasn...
, obama , president , mccain , palin , election , no
2008-11-05  Blog Me No Blogs
.MCCAIN SUPPORTERS REMAIN A HOWLING, DISRESPECTFUL MOBCOMPARED WITH OBAMA'S ORDERLY, RESPECTFUL, JOYOUS CROWD, IT WAS JUST SADYOUTUBE: MSNBC"McCain Concession Speech"McCain's Career In Politics Ends On A Bitter-Sweet NoteIf John McCain on the campaign trail had only waxed this eloquen...
, racists , wins , U.S. , victory , concession , McCain , Presidential , racism , first , african-american , CAMPAIGN , Republican , Obama , elections , mob , loses , 2008 , Speech
ABC News Reports of agitation between the two camps bubbled up in the final weeks of the campaign as Barack Obama began pulling away and the GOP duo was unable to regain the momentum. But those reports are no longer in the rumor stage as McCain loyalists are now blasting away at the ...
, barackobama , johnmccain , sarahpalin
October 25, 2008 The Romans Passing Under the Yoke (1858) by Charles Gleyre (1808-1874) Man was born free, and everywhere he is in chains. There are some who may believe themselves masters of others, and are no less enslaved than they. How has this change come about? - Jean-Jacques Ro...
2008-11-04  ie:missional
10:40 pm It’s almost a done deal. Going to bed. 10:05 pm TX GOP senator retains his seat, Dem in Montana also in IA. GOP replacement senator, Roger Wicker of MS wins the election and keeps the Dems from gaining a filibuster proof majority, if things stand. Shot goes to Hume wit...
, Humor , Politics , election , live
2008-11-04  Work Happy Now!
Whether starting a business or building your career, most likely you are going to have to start from the bottom and work your way up. Obama is a man who has worked his way up by optimizing his resources. I’m not going to give you the history of all his accomplishments because you...
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2008-11-05  southernxyl
McCain's concession speech.Thank you. Thank you, my friends. Thank you for coming here on this beautiful Arizona evening.My friends, we have come to the end of a long journey. The American people have spoken, and they have spoken clearly.A little while ago, I had the honor of calling S...
2008-11-04  No Sheeples Here!
My friends, we have come to the end of a long journey. The American people have spoken, and they have spoken clearly.A little while ago, I had the honor of calling Senator Barack Obama to congratulate him on being elected the next president of the country that we both love.In a contes...
, election , John , McCain
2008-11-05  The Utah Amicus
by Rob Miller 11.04.08 - 06:14 pm I believe that the 2008 presidential election will go down in history as the most historic and important, political movement to occur during my lifetime. Who would have thought in 2004 that in 2008 we would see a woman, an African American, and a Latt...
, Uncategorized , Add , Davis , Party , Utah , Utah
2008-11-06  Alas, a blog
Newsweek has begun publishing a “secrets of the campaign” series, featuring stories they agreed to embargo until after the election. The highlights page is entertaining reading. Sarah Palin comes off badly; apparently McCain campaign insiders are bitter enough towards Palin...
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2008-11-06  The Moderate Voice
Did Sarah Palin lose the 2008 election for John McCain? It should first of all be said, that even before the meltdown of the financial markets in September, the 2008 presidential election was the Democrats to lose. President Bush’s approval ratings were in the tank and most peopl...
, Sarah , 2004 , Newsweek , John , 2008 , Politics
2008-11-03  Politics
On the eve of the historic 2008 presidential election, Illinois Democrat Barack Obama appears poised to win. Both nationally and in polls of many battleground states, Senator Obama holds a steady lead, comfortably outside the margin of error. Just adding up the states that polls show a...
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Any new product launch is always a challenge for managers. A political candidate for president is the ultimate new product; you either convince half the consumers/voters to purchase you on Election Day, or you are out of business—forever. Over the entire campaign, there were six main...
, Government , Politics
Throughout the 2008 general election campaign, the media uncritically reported complaints by Sen. John McCain's campaign that they favored his opponent in their coverage of the presidential race, while making little attempt to assess the accuracy of those complaints or to confirm or re...
Throughout the 2008 general election campaign, the media uncritically reported complaints by Sen. John McCain's campaign that they favored his opponent in their coverage of the presidential race, while making little attempt to assess the accuracy of those complaints or to confirm or re...