Monthly Archives: November 2008

WKRP in Cincinnati – Turkeys Away

WKRP in Cincinnati – Turkeys Away

 

Buy Nothing Day

Buy Nothing Day

Buy Nothing Day

 

Numbers

Numbers

I hope this is my last post on the 2008 election in my county. At the central committee meeting last night, people asked about …

 

2008 Electoral College Cartogram

2008 Electoral College Cartogram

From Mark Newman, a cartogram with the election results, weighted by electoral college votes: The cartogram weighted by population looks almost the same. The point …

 

Blue?

Blue?

Margin of victory 2008, county by county from the Washington Post

 

Hope

Hope

NY Times – Electoral Map 2008, Voting Shifts

 

Small smear of red

Small smear of red

From an article by Frank Schaeffer : The small smear of red on the otherwise blue electoral map looks more like a minor bloodstain on …

 

Get back up every time you are knocked down.

Get back up every time you are knocked down.

President-Elect Barack Obama had some advice for Stas, a seven-year-old political blogger: Look out for other people, even when it does not directly benefit you; …

 

Day One

Day One

 

I figured it out

I figured it out

The only way a Democrat in my county is going to win an election is to change their name to “Liquor Option.”

 

Bittersweet

Bittersweet

Obama won. I am grateful for that. However, at the local level, his win was accomplished on the backs of our local Democratic …

 

Ohio is not Blue

Ohio is not Blue

Look at this map. Ohio did not “turn blue” just because Obama won. This is from an interactive map at the Secretary of State’s website. …

 

We are the ones we’ve been waiting for

We are the ones we’ve been waiting for

 

Don’t think for a moment that power concedes…

Don’t think for a moment that power concedes…