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Politics
October 27, 2008

Palin’s Home State Paper Endorses Obama

This endorsement was offered by the Anchorage Daily News which is, of course, in Sarah Palin’s home state.  Now, I’m sure there are lots of publishers in Arizona endorsing Obama or lots of folks in Illinois endorsing McCain, but this seems very apt for the current state of the election. That said, let’s see how the election results actually pan out before gloating too much.

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October 26, 2008

The Power of the Internet and the End of Rovian Politics

This is an inspirational piece .  I read it with glee.  Before reading below, here’s a great example of what Ms. Huffington is talking about. Here are some of the details: Thanks to YouTube — and blogging and instant fact-checking and viral emails — it is getting harder and harder to get away with repeating brazen lies without paying a price, or to run under-the-radar […]

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October 26, 2008

US Election: Fraud’s Ugly Head Materializing?

Despite the massive leads reported in favour of Barack Obama, a lot of stories are popping up concerning election fraud, voting issues and problems with electronic voting machines. This BBC story is one of the earlier ones that I’ve seen, but a search on US election fraud (especially with What Really Happened ) will reveal that the problems are ubiquitous and should be something to […]

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October 26, 2008

Liberal democrats more active online

Research here. This is an interesting article, but covers the US only. Interesting why?  Well, I suppose it’s because it offers up some hope for the world in that if we (being liberal democrats or activists) are actually more active than conservatives, we’ll eventually turn things around. The only challenge is fragmentation.  In Canada, during the last election, the number of activist causes, groups, campaigns […]