All Posts Tagged With: "election 2008"
Goode Riddance in VA-5
Perhaps the biggest surprise of the 2008 election is the overdue retirement of Virgil Goode, from the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Fifth Congressional District. Goode will be replaced by Tom Perriello, assuming his current lead of 750 votes holds. For updates on that race, check out Raising Kaine. For more on Perriello, check out this write up at Slate. Read more…
A Dispatch from Colorado
Friend of Urbanagora and occasional contributor Jon Monteith was recently sent by the Human Rights Campaign to Colorado to campaign on behalf of Democratic senatorial candidate Mark Udall with some additional volunteer work for Barack Obama and congressional candidate Betsy Markey. All three candidates won. Jon provided a report from the field on the eve of the election for HRC’s blog. It’s interesting stuff. The report follows after the jump.
Election Predictions
For the past week or so, contributors, readers, and friends of Urbanagora have been compiling our Official 2008 Election Predictions. We put swing states, close senate races, and more into the mix. Now that the campaigning is over, go out and VOTE, then come back and check how we think it will all turn out.
Voting in NoVA
Today I voted for Barack Obama in the Commonwealth of Virginia. I cast an absentee ballot because I wont be able to make it to my polling place on Election Day. Due to expectations of an unprecedented turnout, Arlington County is encouraging people to vote early by absentee ballot. Today when I arrived, there was over an hour long line snaking back and forth down a hallway, to lines winding around a big entrance way, and back up the hallway where the line began, and eventually to the room with the voting booths. Read more…
“You can tell a lot about a guy from his shoes”
Today cable news is paying too much attention to what the McCain campaign paid for Sarah Palin’s clothes. This is a story I couldn’t possibly care less about, and while it’s good for the Obama campaign, it’s not as helpful as focusing on the issues. As I speak the Dow is down 515. Palin will stay connected with those she connects with, but by now most at the margin have been lost, with polls showing that 55% of Americans have reached the self-evident truth that Palin isn’t prepared to be President.
As an Illinoisian I take pride in our state’s history of producing leaders who were great speech makers, like Lincoln, Everett Dirksen, and Adlai Stevenson.
I was thinking of Stevenson today when I heard about Palin, and the famous picture of Stevenson with a hole worn into his shoes. In that spirit, take a look at the pictures below:
Colin Powell Says What Needs To Be Said
Not his endorsement of Barack Obama. The endorsement is all well and good. It will consume some news cycles and run down the clock, and maybe even persuade a few moderates who are on the fence. But I think we should take a step back from the campaign for a second and look at two things Powell said that are only peripherally related to this election. They are deeply important points and Powell put them very eloquently. Read more…
What does Buffett’s support say about Obama
I’d recommend Andy Tobais for investment advice and political commentary. Tobias wrote “The only investment guide you’ll ever need” a highly readable book offering very practical, step by step ideas on how to build wealth slowly.
He has a comment up today, that I wanted to submit to the Agora for discussion on Warren Buffett’s support for Obama:
HOW DID WARREN BUFFETT GET SO RICH?
He started with nothing, inherited nothing, made it all by his wits. How? By being uncommonly smart, sure, but also by being wise, which is different, and uncommonly thoughtful; uncommonly decent, which has attracted decency in return; by taking the long view and sorting out what’s important; and – crucially – by being a good judge of talent: knowing which chief executives to bet on.
What does it say about Senator Obama that for the first time ever Warren Buffett has taken an active role in a modern Presidential election, hosting and headlining fundraisers to make Barack Obama our next chief executive?
What does it say about the urgency of the situation?
What does it say about Senator McCain?
New ad: Ninety Percent
The most memorable moment from last night’s debate was easily McCain’s statement that he is not George W. Bush. It was one of his most confrontational moments, and definitely a pre-canned line. McCain had other one liners in the bag, but his delivery fell flat.
As I mentioned in the Urbanagora liveblog of the debate, Obama should have immediately hit back and said, “When you vote with someone 90% of the time, it can be pretty hard to tell you apart.”
Today they hit it out of the park with this ad. (Thanks to Ryan for directing me to this)