Posts Tagged ‘election’

I Voted!
Originally uploaded by MikeOliveri.
The Wife and I just finished voting over my lunch break. I was the 317th person to vote in our precinct, which isn’t half bad considering there are only 2000 people in our town and the eligible voters are split across two precincts. No lines, just walked up, they verified my [...]

I think I solved the mystery of why the media doesn’t list third-party presidential candidates: a lot of them are unelectable whackjobs.
Let’s start simple, shall we? Consider Gene Amondson. Judging by his website, Gene’s primary goal is to promote his web designer. Nothing says you’re a valid presidential candidate like a front page that has [...]

My friend Clark just sent me a link to ABC’s Vote 2008 Match-o-matic that finds your top three candidates based on 11 sample questions covering the war in Iraq, health care, immigration and tax reform. It told me my top three candidates were Mitt Romney, Dennis Kucinich, and Ron Paul. If need be, you can [...]

Huckabee got busted again, this time claiming most of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were clergymen. Best case scenario: 4 out of 56 of them were practicing or former preachers. Only 1 was an active minister. (Thanks for the link, Tim.)
This is the second time this week he’s demonstrated religion is going to [...]

Presidential wannabe Mike Huckabee is quoted as follows regarding abortion and the reduction in the American workforce:
“Sometimes we talk about why we’re importing so many people in our workforce,” the former Arkansas governor said. “It might be for the last 35 years, we have aborted more than a million people who would have been in [...]