Archive for August, 2008

Sarah “Shocker” Palin

I am completely shocked!  I have been a fan of Palin for several years, but I didn’t even think she was in the running.  This could be a complete game-changer.  The Hillary vote is more in play than ever now.  The “historic” Democratic nomination has some company (I know, Ferraro was nominated in ‘84 but [...]

Battleground State — New Hampshire

This is the latest in a series of posts in which I will give my analysis of the so-called “Battleground States.” I will start from the West Coast and move East and, hopefully, will be able to finish up in a couple of weeks or less. I will revisit these a couple of times as [...]

Unity in the Democratic Party?

The theme for the week in Denver and the mainstream media is, of course, unity.  But what does it mean?
Does it mean that the party will agree on a candidate?  I don’t think so; asking a political party whether Republican or Democrat, that makes up roughly half of America to agree on a single candidate [...]

Analyzing the Republican Vice-Presidential Candidates

With the announcemnt coming, by most accounts, on Friday, let’s take  look at the contenders.
Mitt Romney
Born: March 12, 1947 (61 years old)
Family: Married to his high-school sweetheart, the former Ann Davies, since 1969.  The couple has five children.  Romney’s father, George was governor of Michigan and served in Richard Nixon’s cabinet
Education: B.A. Brigham Young University [...]

The Democratic VP nominee is…

I don’t know who Sen. Obama is going to pick, but, apparently, no one else does.  If they did, there might be something else being talked about today in the mainstream media, the blogosphere, or the water cooler.  Obviously no one knows but ”the One” (he knows everything, after all), so we are all just going to sit around [...]

Battleground State — Florida

This is the latest in a series of posts in which I will give my analysis of the so-called “Battleground States.” I will start from the West Coast and move East and, hopefully, will be able to finish up in a couple of weeks or less. I will revisit these a couple of times as [...]