First Returns In!

In a stunning upset, Barack Obama has taken Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, 15 votes to John McCain’s 6! Well known for their quaint tradition of being the first in the nation to vote and close it’s polls, the tiny town with a population of about 3 dozen has gone Republican in every one of it’s [...]

Sleep-well Data

Here is strong data to back up my suppositions and the hopes of all Democrats, Progressives and Liberals for tomorrow. As usual, 538 does an incredible job of distilling an awesome mountain of data into information and this post is no exception. The net-net for those that like to go galloping straight down to the [...]

The Big Day Looms

Tomorrow we vote and decide on the direction we want our country to move for the next 4 years… however in this case, the choice is considerably more important than simple “direction.” Since there are fundamental differences between Obama’s plans and McCain’s, there are obvious superficial differences. But no less important is the fact that [...]

Grassroots Democracy

When I was in high school, I had a Social Studies teacher named Jim Mamer. He was a Birkenstock wearing, bearded extreme liberal that also favored the Second Amendment because an armed populace is the best way to keep a government at bay. He was an interesting one, that’s for sure. But the thing I [...]

Socialism Rears its Ugly Head

I think it’s important, for the boneheaded right wing nutjobs that want to attribute “socialism” to Barack Obama’s plan that we all know the truth. Today McCain called Obama the “Redistributionist In Chief,” further going on to try to tar Obama with a brush of Socialism that wants to “spread the wealth” in a way [...]