Tag Archives: campaign

Why the polls don’t really matter.

At least some of them don’t.
If you go out and interview everyone in the US and 52% go for McCain and 48% go for Obama, it means NOTHING.  We don’t vote that way.  We vote through the electoral college.  Without knowing how the votes are arranged, you can’t tell anything.  Take a look at CNN’s [...]

Shockingly, John McCain breaks the law, Obama gets the heat

Yes, don’t forget, it looks like McCain may be breaking federal law
Of course, that doesn’t matter.  What matters is Obama changed his mind, completely legally, to do his own fundraising, completely legally.  Again, there’s these cries of ‘flip-flop’.  I don’t understand that.  I suppose mindlessly sticking to whatever decision you made in the past, no [...]

I’m sorry, why do people think this guy is an honorable public servant?

McCain, the more you look, the worse he looks.
He seems to know very little about economics (self-confessed), science (see the autism thing), his duty as a senator, and picking advisors who can keep from saying dumb-ass things:
Think Progress » Being a senator not a ‘high priority’ for McCain.
Campaign adviser Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS) confirmed that [...]

McCain Isn’t Just A War Hero, He’s A Scientist

This just makes me sad. Mostly because this guy is following the same patterns as, say, our current C-In-C. He talks about things he knows nothing about.
First, he talks about tax cuts and tax breaks, etc., all while admitting he knows very little about economics.
Now he’s talking about medicine, which, apparently, being a [...]