Barack Obama has chosen his running mate, Joseph R. Biden, Democratic Senator from Delaware.

Early reactions from the political echo chamber are:

• New York Times
• Politico
• First Read
• The New Republic

The Senior level parent meeting has been scheduled:

Seniors’ Parent Night, Cafeteria, Tues, Sept 23, 6:30PM

This is absolutely mind boggling.

The federal government is trying to GIVE AWAY money and millions Americans haven’t taken them up on the offer! The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (a liberal think tank) has put out a study claiming that 5 million Americans, over 11,000 in Austin alone, have yet to claim their Economic Stimulus Payment of up to $1200.

Read about it here.

A new poll produced by members of the UT-Austin Government Department and the Texas Politics Project, found that 67% of Texans think the country is moving in the wrong direction. This reflects similar polls across the rest of the country.

Texans do, however, support John McCain over Barack Obama 42 to 33%, and incumbent Republican John Cornyn over challenger State Representative Rick Noriega 44 to 31%. Libertarian Bob Barr and Independent Ralph Nader are both polling less than 5%.

Keep in mind, however, that Nader will not be on the ballot in Texas.

Find more detailed information here

According to a new study from The Pew Research Center (.pdf) Fox News’ viewers are the most evenly divided among Democrats, Republicans, and Independents. Fox News really is balanced after all! I’m surprised by CNN’s numbers, however. I would have thought CNN’s numbers would have looked more like Fox’s.

CNN: 51% Democrats, 18% Republicans, 23% independents

MSNBC: 45% Democrats, 18% Republicans, 27% independents

Fox News: 33% Democrats, 39% Republicans, 22% independents

Here’s an interesting article claiming John McCain wouldn’t be a good president due to his lack of technology knowledge.

Find it here.

No word yet on George Washington’s experience with Internet Explorer.

The Scientific American claims that larger brain sizes may correlate with higher IQs!

In humans, brain size correlates, albeit somewhat weakly, with intelligence, at least when researchers control for a person’s sex (male brains are bigger) and age (older brains are smaller). Many modern studies have linked a larger brain, as measured by magnetic resonance imaging, to higher intellect, with total brain volume accounting for about 16 percent of the variance in IQ. But, as Einstein’s brain illustrates, the size of some brain areas may matter for intelligence much more than that of others does.