All Blog Posts (Page 35)

Nov 12, 2008
Zoon Politikon

A Poor Choice of Words

"You know," [Chuck Heath, Sarah Palin's father] said, "the kids lose underwear, and everything has to be accounted for." (from Maureen Dowd) You know, I bet Bristol just has the worst time remembering where she left her underwear. When is her wedd...

Nov 06, 2008
Zoon Politikon

Newsweek's Campaign '08 Retrospective

Newsweek had a number of reporters embedded in the McCain, Obama and Clinton campaigns for the past year, working on a multi-part inside story on what happened over the past year. Part 4 of 7 was posted this morning, and it’s well worth the time t...

Nov 04, 2008
Zoon Politikon

Election Beer Bets

I bet my friend Neil a pint of beer that Obama would win Georgia. He accepted. I bet my friend Dominic with 2:1 odds that Obama will lose Arizona. He accepted. It would be worth two pints of beer to me to see McCain so thoroughly defeated, especi...

Nov 03, 2008
Zoon Politikon

Toot's vote

This made me tear up. I just read this over at DKos that Barack Obama’s grandmother’s vote will be counted under Hawaii state law. Ms. Dunham’s absentee mail ballot was received and reviewed under the Hawaii standards for processing absentee mail ...

Nov 03, 2008
Zoon Politikon

My Guess for Tomorrow

Obama 364 to McCain 174. Same as Karl Rove is predicting, perversely, except that I genuinely think that Georgia is going to flip, given the African-American turnout I’ve been reading about. Obama wins all of the Kerry states, plus CO, NM, FL, OH,...

Oct 31, 2008
Zoon Politikon

Pre-Election Thoughts

Did you know that Obama can lose: Florida Virginia North Carolina Ohio Indiana and still win with 273 EV by picking up Colorado (7.1% ahead), Iowa (12.4% ahead) and New Mexico (9% ahead), as long as he retains all of the Kerry states. Of c...

Oct 22, 2008
Zoon Politikon

It's really very simple

Just watch this, and compare it to the hate and vitriol coming from the opposing side. Who’s really working towards solutions? We are all Americans, and we all love this country. It’s as simple as that. </param></param></embed>

Oct 18, 2008
iPhone Photography

Swamped, lately

I’ve been swamped lately: I have one more update to the Slate Poll Tracker '08 that's mostly complete (it just requires some performance testing and enhancement). I am in the final stages of delivering an iPhone app to a startup that shall rema...