An interesting piece in the Metro Boston News.
Thanx and a tip o' the hat to LRC blog.
That is all.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Monday, January 28, 2008
Obama vs. Mitt
I was thinking that Obama's win in South Carolina is a little like Mitt's win in Nevadda. Both won majorities in these respective states, in fact Mitt and Obama both won about the same percentage (Mitt's win seemed bigger because the remaining votewas split between more candidates). In addition, both had wins that were to some extent affected by identity politics, with Obama winning 78% of the black vote (~50% of voters in SC, I think) and Mitt 94% of the Mormon vote (25% of voters in NV).
The big obvious difference is that Mitt's win was only increased by the identity issue while Obama's was driven entirely by it, with Obama coming in third among white voters while Mitt still would have beaten the second place contender (my man Ron Paul) 2-to-1 amongst non-Mormon voters.
We will see how it goes.
That is all.
The big obvious difference is that Mitt's win was only increased by the identity issue while Obama's was driven entirely by it, with Obama coming in third among white voters while Mitt still would have beaten the second place contender (my man Ron Paul) 2-to-1 amongst non-Mormon voters.
We will see how it goes.
That is all.
Friday, January 25, 2008
Ron Paul Shafted in Debates and Media
What is very interesting about Ron Paul is how unfair the media have been to him in the debates, and in particular, how the media are now all pulling a Fox and trying to ignore him.
For example, in the October CNBC debate, Ron Paul got less time than Huckabee, Brownback, Tancredo or Hunter, despite the fact that he had a higher fundraising haul n the 3rd quarter than any of them.
Then, yesterday, he received the least time of any of the GOP candidates in the MSNBC debate, despite the fact that he has beaten Rudy Giuliani in all but one (maybe two, I don't know about Wyoming) of the contests held so far.
And no one is discussing him anymore. After the debate yesterday, almost no mention of him was made until the text poll rankings came up.
Also, note how no one talked about the GOP part of the Nevada caucuses except to mention the winner, as Vox Day pointed out:
It's always easy to tell how Ron Paul does in a primary; you need merely count the number of finishers reported, then add one. If this means the media has to fail to report any of the finishers from second to sixth place, as was the case with the Nevada caucuses this weekend, well, that just leaves that much more space to anoint this week's "frontrunner."
And let's not forget the near blackout of Louisiana's caucuses, where Paul either did very well, or did even better.
That is all.
For example, in the October CNBC debate, Ron Paul got less time than Huckabee, Brownback, Tancredo or Hunter, despite the fact that he had a higher fundraising haul n the 3rd quarter than any of them.
Then, yesterday, he received the least time of any of the GOP candidates in the MSNBC debate, despite the fact that he has beaten Rudy Giuliani in all but one (maybe two, I don't know about Wyoming) of the contests held so far.
And no one is discussing him anymore. After the debate yesterday, almost no mention of him was made until the text poll rankings came up.
Also, note how no one talked about the GOP part of the Nevada caucuses except to mention the winner, as Vox Day pointed out:
It's always easy to tell how Ron Paul does in a primary; you need merely count the number of finishers reported, then add one. If this means the media has to fail to report any of the finishers from second to sixth place, as was the case with the Nevada caucuses this weekend, well, that just leaves that much more space to anoint this week's "frontrunner."
And let's not forget the near blackout of Louisiana's caucuses, where Paul either did very well, or did even better.
That is all.
The Problem with Stimulus
What the President and Congress are proposing as an "economic stimulus package" has one terrible downside: they are, in the end, just shuffling money around.
No one is actually increasing the amount that the U.S. is producing. No one is cutting spending on something wasteful and letting taxpayers use it instead. No one is trying to increase investment by freeing up funds from the insane Iraq War.
No, the government is just giving everyone money it must print or borrow from foreign countries to everybody with the hope that we will use it to consume enough to mask the economic problems that are coming - actually, most of them probably are stupid enough to think it will actually work.
We need to bring the troops home from not just Iraq, but Korea and Europe as well. That would be a real economic stimulus.
That is all.
No one is actually increasing the amount that the U.S. is producing. No one is cutting spending on something wasteful and letting taxpayers use it instead. No one is trying to increase investment by freeing up funds from the insane Iraq War.
No, the government is just giving everyone money it must print or borrow from foreign countries to everybody with the hope that we will use it to consume enough to mask the economic problems that are coming - actually, most of them probably are stupid enough to think it will actually work.
We need to bring the troops home from not just Iraq, but Korea and Europe as well. That would be a real economic stimulus.
That is all.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
We're Number One Four! We're Number Four!
Paul is in fourth place in Michigan with 6% of the vote - ahead of Thompson and Giuliani! Yay!
That is all.
That is all.
Sunday, January 13, 2008
The Problem with Liberals
Is that they think that every problem requires the government to engineer your neighborhood, your environment, your school in order to make it fit their idea of social justice. They won't just let you alone to live in peace.
This post (which I found from a link on Alas) is, I think, a good example of this.
That is all.
This post (which I found from a link on Alas) is, I think, a good example of this.
That is all.
Ron Paul's NH Performance
Gary North on the "rEVOLution", and a link to a suggestion that there was ballot tampering in New Hampshire as an explanation of the poll/election results discrepancies.
I don't know if there was any fraud or not, but I do think that the system should be as transparent as possible to avoid even the appearance of impropriety.
More from Dave Trotter.
That is all.
I don't know if there was any fraud or not, but I do think that the system should be as transparent as possible to avoid even the appearance of impropriety.
More from Dave Trotter.
That is all.
Friday, January 11, 2008
Blog of the Week Feature is on Hiatus
I need some time to find more good blogs, and then it takes a little while for me to Photoshop the graphic links, so I will suspend "blog of the week" for a the time being. I have only updated it once in the past year or so anyway.
That is all.
That is all.
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
The Ron Paul Racism Brouhaha
Tuesday, January 08, 2008
Constitution Party Ballot Access
As best I can figure from the Ballot Access website and the Constitution Party emails I have received,
This:
is the current ballot access map.
That is all.
P.S. I am too tired to find the specific pages that this map was derived from, so the links are to the websites' front pages.
This:
is the current ballot access map.
That is all.
P.S. I am too tired to find the specific pages that this map was derived from, so the links are to the websites' front pages.
Monday, January 07, 2008
"Mythical" Success?
Michael Schwartz offers an alternate theory as to the decreased violence in Anbar, and quotes to a list of arguments Juan Cole made against the idea that recent trends show that victory is imminent.
That is all.
That is all.
Saturday, January 05, 2008
Thursday, January 03, 2008
Ouch.
Paul came in fifth in Iowa. Oh, well, it was fairly close, I think.
On to New Hampshire!
That is all.
On to New Hampshire!
That is all.
Happy New Year
Sorry for lack of blogging recently. Been away from my computer for a while. Then I had to go back to work.
Now, for a blog post that is not about blogging: for what it is worth, I predict a 3rd place finish in the Iowa caucus for Ron Paul.
That is all.
Now, for a blog post that is not about blogging: for what it is worth, I predict a 3rd place finish in the Iowa caucus for Ron Paul.
That is all.
Monday, December 31, 2007
Happy Old Year
Figured I'd get in one more post before the end of the year.
Here's hoping for a great 2008!
That is all.
Here's hoping for a great 2008!
That is all.
Saturday, December 22, 2007
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