Sunday, December 14, 2008

Political Happenings 3



Bush should play dodge ball.

political happenings 2




Wayyy to go Rod Blegovasldhga897wich. Chicago really needs to sort its governors out. John Steward pointed out that statistically, you are more likely to be arrested if you are Illinois Governor than a murderer. I just dont understand why so many Illinois Governors are corrupt. Why dont they elect a moral, trustworthy, decent human being?

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Political Happenings.

See more Jack Black videos at Funny or Die



Proposition 8 is still under scrutiny by the California Supreme Court. Proposition 22, which also won a majority vote in California before gay marriage was legalized there, tried to establish the same things as proposition 8, but the Cali supreme court ruled that equal rights for citizens could not be removed by a popular vote. So what I would like to know is how come that conclusion has not been reached based off of this precedence?

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Volunteer Learnin

1)The first time I volunteered I canvassed in HiddenBrook with Mae and Rob. We spent a good 5 hours going from house to house asking the residents if theyll be voting, who theyll be voting for and if they needed a ride to the polls. Most of the people we talked to said they would be voting for Obama, and that they didnt need a ride to the polls. A few people said they were going McCain, but a majority of people either werent home or didnt answer the door.

2)The next time I volunteered was two days before election day. We went to a different staging site (after a long time driving around trying to find it), and they had had so many volunteers that there was hardly anything left to do. We spent about an hour walking around Reston putting reminders on people's door knobs to vote in two days, then went back to the staging site.

3)The next day we went back to the same staging site, and this time we went almost to Great Falls to put up more doorknob reminders. It took two hours to do the same amount of houses it took us the previous day because the houses were so far apart. So we finished that up and headed back to the staging site.

I thought that it was interesting that there were actually more Obama signs up at the big Great Falls houses than in HiddenBrook, as you would expect more wealthy and therefore Republican residents there. I had fun.

Volunteer Pictures

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Week6!

Barack Obama is going to be elected president. He will win win with a 60% popular vote and have around 330 electoral votes. Frank Wolf will hold his office as he has for the past 467 years in the 10th district because he is doing a good job. I dont really know much about the 11th district, but I think that the Republicans will continue to hold that as well, so I think that Tom Davis will be reelected. I also think both of our senators will remain unchanged. Warner and Webb will both regain reelection.

Friday, October 24, 2008

Week 5

Swing States

Florida, Pennslvania, Ohio and Nevada are important swing states in this election. They are still up for grabs because the states have contrasting populations, which are fairly equally numbered, so their electoral votes are up grabs. Also, Maimi is a hung democratic city and Jacksonville is a juge republican city. Candidates are both fighting extra hard for Florida, Ohio and Pennslvania because they all have a considerable amount of electoral votes.

Florida is a swing state because it has a large population of spanish voters, who are more likely to vote democratic and a large population of old voters who are more likely to vote republican. Polls do suggest that Obama maintains a slight lead ahead of McCain. The candidates are bombarding the state with ads (including spanish ads) and other proaganda to try and gain the upper hand. I predict Obama will win Florida, because he is better than McCain.

Pennslvania is a swing state because there are two large democratic cities on either end, Philadelphia and PITTSBURG!!!!!!!! and in the middle its all rural and republican. That concoction whips up a tasty serving of contested state. The candidates are both helping themselves to nice large servings of it in this delicious election. Obama is also going to win Pennslvania becuase more people in the cities are going to vote in this election becuase it has gained so much publicity and there are such high stakes with our economy.

Monday, October 20, 2008

Current Event #5

Colon Powell announced on Meet the Press this week that he endorses Barack Obama in this presidental race. Powell is a former gerneral in our military and a republican. An endorsement from such a well known and respected member of the Republican Party will undoubtedly boost support for Obama. It will be interesting to see how this will be reflected in polls in the coming weeks. I agree with Powell when he says Obama is handling the economic crisis better than McCain and that Obama will be a better leader for this nation.

Week 4

According to a gallup's polls 52% of registered voters are planning to vote Obama and 42% are planning to vote McCain with a margin of error of 3%. 6% are undecided and 1% plans to vote for another candidate.
CNN's polls show Obama with 49% and McCain with 43% of voters. 8% is still unsure, and there is a 3% margin of error. CNN polls also show that the economy is definitely the most important issue in this election.

"The Mason-Dixon Virginia poll, conducted earlier this week, found Warner preferred by 57 percent of state voters, compared to 31 percent for Republican Jim Gilmore. Eleven percent of those polled said they remain undecided." -HispanicBuisness.com
RealClearPolitics.com also shows Warner with a 28% runaway lead. Good for you, Mark Warner, good for you.

I believe that these polls are an accurate reflection of the public's opinions. The samples chosen seem to be unbiased and reliable. The polls can change campaigns by giving candidates more confidence or putting candidates under pressure to perform better in debates. Polls can also make a candidate change their focus of issues. For instance, polls are showing that a majority of our population is most concerned with our economic problems and that has been reflected in Obama and McCain's speeches and debate performances.

Sunday, October 19, 2008

Week 3

In the 10th congressional district, there are three candidates for the office: Judy Feder (D), Frank Wolf (R), and Neeraj Nigam (I).

Judy Feder is a mother who has lived in Northern Virginia for over thirty years. She is a supporter of reforming no child left behind, early childhood education and a womans right to choose. She has worked for decades to make health care affordable, and she wants to responsibly end the war in Iraq as soon as possible.

Frank Wolf has represented the 10th district since 1981. He has always placed reforming our regions transportation system high on his priority list, so nobody is stuck in traffic. Wolf has also battled gangs and spoke out for the prosecuted around the world.

Neeraj Nigam moved to the USA from India in 1989. He and his family fell in love with this country, but were angered when their representatives stopped working to help those that they represent and started looking for things to blame on their opponets. He is running to put America back into the hands of the people. He also likes soft, soothing music that he can relax to. It can be instrumental or vocal.

Top issues in this election are similar to those of the presidental election: how to end the Iraq war, making health care affordable, and our educational system.

I cannot find any poll results, but Wolf is favored to win.

Monday, October 6, 2008

Currnet Event #2

I don’t want another great depression. I don’t like the idea of pouring 300 billion tax dollars into two private corporations, and leaving an additional 400 billion to Bush to do what he feels is necessary with while our nation is still so deep in debt. However, if it is necessary to save our economy and save our economic future, I’m for it. I don’t know all the logistics of this failed bill, or exactly what happened in congress yesterday, but I hope that in the coming days congress will find a solution, and save this nation. Congress needs to drop party alliances and interests and start thinking about what is best for this country.

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Week 2

To me the most important issue in this election is our struggling economy. What has been happening recently on Wall Street can very much affect this entire nation's future if it is not handled properly. Thousands of people are losing their homes and thousands more are losing their jobs. In order to avoid another great depression, we must act quickly and efficiently to get our economy back on its feet. Hopefully by the time we elect our next leader, we will be through the worst that this economic crisis brings, and the leader we choose can keep our economy strong for generations to come.

In the only debate that has taken place so far, I think that Obama emerged triumphant. He was much more vocal about his well thought out plans to solve our economic crisis, while McCain depended on chastising Obama for letting some earmark spending through. McCain's points were redundant, and at many times focused more on bashing Obama than promoting himself. Obama remained on the high road through the debate, while McCain took a few low blows and twisted Obama's words.

The electronic media will have a huge impact on this election. As we grow more and more technologically advanced, more house holds have computers and internet connections and televisions. More and more information is available to more and more people. The electric media will spread news of happenings on the campaign trail, but it may also spread untrue rumors and slander on candidates too. The American people have to be careful, and skeptic of everything that they hear from the media.

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQK1al91drs

I watched this and thought it was really funny, and displays perfectly how so many politicians will tell people what ever they want to hear.

"And I can see Russia from my house!"

Some Lyrics

"F*** talkin' bout the recession, its Just depressin'
I rock with Obama, but I aint no politician,
and I
Chill with the thugs and the gangstas too
I aint a blood, but I war with the boys in blue"
-Jockin Jay-Z

Monday, September 15, 2008

Week 1

I am pretty moderate in most of my political views. On most social issues I take the liberal side (pro-choice, let gays get married, make music not war, ect.), while with some economic issues I lean conservative, but I'm still really getting a feel for where I standl; all this politics stuff is new to me. In this election, I support Barrack Obama. I think that his philosophy of bringing change is exactally what we need to repair our economy and to get our foreign policy back on track.


I would love to think that Obama's promises of finding new, clean, renewable energy within ten years could be a reality. We desperately need to in order to take better care of our planet, to help our economy, and to break our addiction to foreign oil. However, Obama's promise is huge, and there is really no way in knowing wheather it will be successful. He has promised to pour hundreds of billions of tax dollars into research, which I have no problem with, but he has no way of being 100% positive that he will be successful. I think that Obama's plan will be more effective than McCain's in the long run, because they seem to care more. At the DNC, energy was discussed much more than at the RNC.


I trust Obama much more to end the Iraq war than McCain. Dont get me wrong, I dont think we should just pack up and leave the Iraqis alone with their new govornment, but I dont think we should be there for another 20 years. McCain says "I would rather lose this election than lose this war," but in this war there is no winning for us. Obama said that we need to get out as soon as we can responsibly, which is just what we need to do.