On registation

Call me naive but living in Canada, I'm most preplexed by the necessity or the degree of difficulty for people to have the opportunity to vote in the US, the "world's largest democracy." It seems so much easier in Canada to do so.

Thoughts

It sure has been a while since I last blogged. Like 8 months. Anyway, reading TPM about the latest decision by the Bush DOJ to start investigating ACORN, I thought of a decision in the election campaign from two elections ago in Canada where the RCMP got involved. Apparently, the manual for the DOJ advises against initiating prosecutions before an election. Well...

An evening post

Good evening all,
I've been watching with interest Obama's amazing online fundraising, effectively cushioning himself from Hillary, raising at writing time, $6,173,614, over one million more than what the Clintons loaned to her campaign. Hillary loaned $5 million to her campaign. It should be fascinating but I need some sleep.

Thoughts on Meet the Press this morning

Hello all, this morning I watched Meet The Press. On the show were James Carville, Bob Shrum, Mary Matalin and Mike Murphy. There was a discussion about Johnny "the Mac" McCain and his prospects going into the general, with the expectation that he will likely be the nominee on Wednesday morning. They posited that prediction based on how a number of big state primaries on the Republican side are winner-take-all. What may screw John McCain is the fact that the base, read Christian conservatives, hate him. All party luminaries like Dr. James Dobson and others have said they WON'T VOTE FOR HIM. With Anne Coulter effectively saying that she'll campaign for Hillary because of John McCain, the question is whether McCain tries to suck back up to the base, like speaking at Liberty University or even Bob Jones, or whether he abandons them. If he abandons them, he faces the possibility of the base not showing up on election day. If he sucks up, and makes himself the chest beating conservative, he risks alienating the very independents he needs for the general. The fact of the matter is that US general elections are won or lost based on independents. McCain could very well lose independents if he skews too much to the right. It would be the reverse of what happened to the Dems in 2000, where Gore skewed to the left of Bradley and got hit by Rove. Anyway, that's all for now...

Thoughts on really blogging

Good evening, actually it could be the evening, it could be the morning or it could be the afternoon when you read this. I'm writing at night. So today, right now, I've decided to really start blogging. I've been told many times to blog and the time is right so here goes.

I've been following Super Tuesday pretty crazily, or as much as I can. There's so much that's happening and could happen in the next few days in the US. On the Democratic side, there's the possibility of a woman being chosen as the nominee to run for president, or an African American who has a shot.

Obama looks as if he's picking up the endorsements in a big way, whether it turns out into votes is a different story. There are a lot of people opining about Super Tuesday, like John Aravosis who wrote about the confusion that may come out of the contests. I was confused in even reading the specifics. With that in mind, Obama just released a campaign video which I think rocks. It's one of those videos that are totally inspiring. As of posting, it has over 10K hits, as to when I post again, it should be much larger.

Anyway, that goes for my first post.

Info about the political construction worker

This is my first foray into blogging. I've seen many blogs and continuously read them, much to the dismay of those around me. A while ago, I started working for a company that builds houses. It is so interesting to learn and see the progression of a piece of land, turn into a house in a matter of months. Since beginning work, I have learned a lot about people in how they interact and work.