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  • Random thoughts on the election

    Random thoughts on the election

    Yesterday I said I just wanted the election to be over. That was a lie. I wanted a certain result, a different result. I just couldn’t imagine this result. To help myself process, I jotted down a few random thoughts. The pollsters missed on Brexit and now this election. Are we in a post-poll world?…

  • Feeling Blue

    Florida’s Democratic Party announces no re-vote; Florida feels blue. Michigan still deciding… Yeah, yeah, nothing groundbreaking here. I was looking for an excuse to try out Google Chart API’s new chart types.

  • A Message of Hope

    Funny how in a campaign where every Republican candidate is trying to be the second coming of Ronald “Morning in America” Reagan, it’s Barack Obama who inspires hope. …And not John McCain. Why aren’t Republicans the party of hope?

  • Did Someone Say al-Qaeda? Part II

    After the first Democratic Presidential Debate, the blogosphere made a big deal that the Democratic candidates mentioned al-Qaeda only twice during the entire debate. I joined in the fray. So how did the Republican candidates do in their first debate? I counted five times in the transcript plus moderator Chris Matthews’ one mention. Five times…

  • Word Tag Clouds for Republican Debate

    Word Tag Clouds for Republican Debate

    As I prepared for the Democratic debate, here are the word tag clouds for the Republican Presidential Debate. Click on the image to see a larger view of Rep. Duncan Hunter’s tag cloud. Anything pop out at you? ;-) Too bad we couldn’t do the same for the candidate’s gestures. McCain’s finger jabbing would fill…

  • Did Someone Say al-Qaeda?

    Democratic candidates said “al-Qaeda” a combined total of twice during the recent presidential debates. (Get out the electron microscopes to see it on their Word Tag Clouds.) No global war on terror, here. Move along… Update: It will be interesting to see the count for the Republicans. I just listened to (most of) their first…

  • Word Tag Clouds for Democratic Debate

    Word Tag Clouds for Democratic Debate

    Pollster.com shows “tag clouds” displaying the Democratic candidates’ words. The sizes of the words correlates to how often they were used during the Democratic Presidential Debate of April 26, 2007. Senator Joe Biden’s tag cloud is shown above. Click on it for a larger view. Visit Pollster.com to see all of them. What can you…

  • Religion in the 2008 Presidential Election

    Religion is playing a large role in the 2008 presidential election. Recently: Mainstream media has noticed that Mitt Romney is Mormon and is doing its best to alert everyone that Romney’s great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather had more than one wife. (By the way, it’s interesting to note that candidate Romney has had only one wife, while…

  • Lieberman Leaving the Democratic Party?

    Lieberman says leaving the Democratic Party is a “very remote possibility.” But even that slight ambiguity — and all his cross-aisle flirtation — has proved more than enough to position Lieberman as the Senate’s one-man tipping point. (Source) And the issue that could tip Lieberman to the Republican side? According to The Politico: defunding the…