A New Political Party Is Needed

A New Political Party Is Needed   Joel S. Hirschhorn   Set aside any Obama euphoria you feel.  The other important news is that third-party presidential candidates had a miserable showing this year,...

Americans Keep Reelecting Losers in Congress

The Anti-Incumbency Movement is Dead   Joel S. Hirschhorn   Voting out congressional incumbents failed this year, showing the anti-incumbency movement to be a clear letdown.  For some years many groups...

Americans abroad can still vote using a federal write-in absentee ballot

If you are an American citizen living abroad who has not yet received your absentee ballot by mail, or who was unable to register to vote in your home state prior to the election, you can still cast a vote using a...

Voting in the US election 2008; from twitter

The polls in the 2008 US election are now starting to close. People were lining up statewide to vote; to cast their ballot for the next President of the United States. Poll results will start to trickle in soon, but...

Should Voting Be a Right if You Are Stupid?

The other day I went to the gym.  There is a cute virginal-like 20 year old girl that works behind the front desk.  She is so sweet and it seemed like she has a good head on her shoulders.  Never judge...

Diebold faces GPL infringement lawsuit over voting machines

"Artifex Software, the company behind the open source Ghostscript PDF processing software, has filed a lawsuit against voting machine vendor Diebold and its subsidiary Premier Election Solutions. Artifex says that Diebold violated the GPL by incorporating Ghostscript into...

The Reason Exit Polls and "Early Calls" Should Be Avoided...

It seemed like a slam dunk, here in Oregon. Gordon Smith (R) was out, Jeff Merkley (D) was in. So, Fox News called the race in Merkley's favor. So, what's the problem? With only 20% of precincts reporting, the vote was FAR from over. In fact, in some areas (notably downtown...

"Obama Is Going To Pay For My Gas And Mortgage!!!" :: Carter's Second Term

" I Voted - And I voted in a way that my vote was not purchased through income re-distribution by the federal government or through a four to one commercial buy on television. The Main Stream Media did not...

Voters excited to be part of historic election

We all are feeling great to be an American today, it was a magic day, a lot of excitement in US, and I have never seen an American election like that. Election results are expected start to popping up in minutes...

Election Day

Today in Tenafly, New Jersey. Tenafly is a suburb where my wife and I have lived for 17+ years and taught our son the importance of voting by taking him into the voting booth with us.

Never Overestimate--This Race is Not Over!

I am neither Democrat nor a Republican.  I consider myself an independent who votes entirely on the issues.  I've have voted in every Presidential election since the age of 19 in 1992.I remember in 2000...

Democracy is not a spectator sport

This is my special voting tie.

A voice From Gaza: Let's vote for Obama

www.Gazatoday.blogspot.com We, Palestinians, are aspiring to any glimpse of hope to establishing our promising country of Palestine. Originally, that glimpse of hope grew when Israelis realized in the nineties that...

Harding: The first African-American president?

Warren Gamaliel Harding, the 29th U.S. president, served from March 4, 1921 to August 2, 1923. The American Decades reference source spoke of "attempts to arouse racist sentiment against (Harding) with accusations...

Obama wasn't on my ballot?!?

I was really worried that I would have to write him in...here's more.Did anyone happen to get a pic of the Ohio ballot? My phone was off so I couldn't take one.

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