Category Archives: Election

Cult

A bitter cult, in fact:

In a startling finding, only 53% of Clinton supporters say they'd vote for Obama against McCain, while 69% of Obama backers would vote for her as the nominee.

Those are PA exit poll numbers.

Make my back, make my back burn!

PA's Great Chasm

... actually, that's the PA "Grand Canyon".

You can trace my (relatively rare) last name back to one man, a farmer and moonshiner, who settled in this area (Tioga County, PA) in the early 1800's.

This one won't go away after today's voting is done.

Magic 8-ball says 58-42, Clinton.

Quiz!

A quick quiz!

Who said this:

“[candidate X] has been less successful in caucuses because it brings out the activist base of the Democratic Party. MoveOn didn’t even want us to go into Afghanistan. I mean, that’s what we’re dealing with. And you know they turn out in great numbers. And they are very driven by their view of our positions, and it’s primarily national security and foreign policy that drives them. I don’t agree with them. They know I don’t agree with them. So they flood into these caucuses and dominate them and really intimidate people who actually show up to support [candidate X].”

Mark one:

[_] Rush Limbaugh
[_] Hillary Clinton
[_] John McCain
[_] Joe Lieberman

Answer here.

One for you, two for me

New Hampshire Recount!!

- The New Hampshire secretary of state will conduct hand recounts of Tuesday's Democratic and Republican primaries, reported Manchester, N.H., TV station WMUR.

Democratic candidate Dennis Kucinich and lesser-known Republican Albert Howard asked for the primary recounts.

Kucinich, who received 1.4 percent of the New Hampshire primary vote said that he is asking for the recount because of what he says are unexplained disparities between hand-counted ballots and machine-counted ballots and rumors online of counting errors.

I've been rolling my eyes at the conspiracy-theorists over this for the last couple of weeks. Every time there's a vote, some people can't help but freak-out about it. But, the numbers do look strange and people who know statistics far better than I think something's amiss. So, good: recount! Let's not let this one fester.