Sorry, I couldn't resist using that! And I need to get an Obama userpic soon ( Read more... )

Several people have posted links to this video (about 4 min.) by Ron Howard and friends, but this may be even cuter (and uses lots less bandwidth):

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Last week Brad DeLong linked to this post at Fivethiryeight.com about a pollster in the county seat of the county just east of where I live:So a canvasser goes to a woman's door in Washington, Pennsylvania. Knocks. Woman answers. Knocker asks who she's planning to vote for. She isn't sure, has to ask her husband who she's voting for. Husband is off ( Read more... )

Among the many RSS feeds I have on my LJ friends page is Countdown Supplemental, a supplement to The News Hole, which is a blog version of Keith Olbermann's Countdown program on MSNBC (which I no longer get, since [expletives deleted] Comcast moved it to digital-only, which I can't afford right now).

Anyway, today's Countdown Supplemental links to ( Read more... )

akirlu posted a link to a fabric sale, which was very interesting. It also gives me a chance to post a link to

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If so: Hi, Joe!

According to another news story -- and I need a userpic for this Presidential election campaign, apparently! -- Joe Biden is sticking up for us toaster buyers! And the R's are, as they are wont to do, mocking him for it ( Read more... )

According to this story, Sarah Palin does indeed want to build a $600 million bridge in Alaska. Just not that one, the one between the town of Ketchikan and nearby Gravina Island, with an airport that, without the bridge, can only be reached by ferry ( Read more... )

(the entry title is of course a pun on the joke: "The difference between democracy and feudalism* is that in a democracy your vote counts, and in feudalism your Count votes.")

There's a website at CQPolitics.com, specifically at http://www.cqpolitics.com/cq-assets/cqmultimedia/flash/votestudy/index.html called Vote Studies Workbook. This has a ( Read more... )

Over on the west_wing_fans community, there's a thread discussing this blog entry from the UK newspaper The Daily Telegraph, about similarities between the 2006 Presidential election in the WW universe (Santos vs. Vinnick) and the currently-probable 2008 election in ours (Obama vs. McCain ( Read more... )

This is actually from Wednesday's Midday Update because I was off sick and am just catching up:

Political Trivia for Feb. 6
By Peggy Girshman

How many times have Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama disagreed on key Senate votes?

a) 25

b) 15

c) 7

d) 3

And the answer, which I will put below a cut:
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