20
Nov
2008
Challenged Ballots: You Decide
The Senate race in Minnesota STILL isn’t decided!
The race between incumbent Republican Norm Coleman and Democrat and former comedian Al Franken was too close to call after the votes were counted. In fact, after over 2 MILLION votes were counted, the difference was less than 300 votes.
LESS THAN 300 VOTES!!!
(Don’t ever let anyone EVER tell you that their vote doesn’t count)
The state of Minnesota is currently recounting the votes. While this seems simple, it really isn’t at all. Sometimes its hard to tell EXACTLY what the voters intent is!
Can you tell who the voter intended to vote for?
Challenged ballots: You be the judge – Minnesota Public Radio puts together a sample of challenged ballots like this one.
Check it out!
What do you think?
24
Sep
2008
Which way do you lean?
Take the quiz, figure out where you lean politically!
Liberal or Conservative? Somewhere in between?
Many of you will find that you agree more with a third party candidate:
(Libertarian, Green Party, R. Nader, etc…)
Find three issues of that party that you agree with
Summarize what that party believes about those three important issues
(You can do this in Microsoft Word or your own sheet of paper)
Do NOT copy and paste!
Democrats http://democrats.org
Green Party http://gp.org
Libertarian http://lp.org/
Republicans http://gop.org
26
Aug
2008
Biden’s no ‘yes man’
Joe Biden was recently catapulted onto the national scene when he was selected to be Barack Obama’s running mate.
The Obama Campaign, in a tech savy move, sent the announcement out via text message to Obama supporters early Saturday morning.
Apparently, Biden pushed quite hard to get onto the ticket. (Wouldn’t any Democrat?)
In case you don’t know anything about him here are two great articles on him and his personality.
31
Jul
2008
No Veep for Romney or Clinton???
One month ago a McCain/Romney vs Obama/Clinton presidential race seemed plausible.
Today, this seems less likely.
Mitt Romney seems to believe that the animosity between himself and John McCain is enough to keep him off the Republican presidential ticket. In an interview on WILM-AM he said,
“I think there’s some great people he could choose from and I expect he will do that. But I don’t plan on being part of the ticket.”
Perhaps he is being suave, but I believe he really thinks he will not be chosen.
In addition, the advocacy group established to pressure Barack Obama to pick Hillary Clinton as his running mate has shut down.
“Because it seems that Senator Obama has made his decision to offer the slot on the ticket to another candidate, we believe that continuing to ask him to pick Hillary is no longer helpful to our party’s chances of winning in November,” two former Clinton staffers wrote in an e-mail to the group they started, ‘Vote Both.’
It appears Mitt Romney MAY not be McCain’s running mate and Hillary Clinton WILL NOT be Obama’s running mate.
Hopefully VP announcements will be made in the next week.