Ron Howard asks you to take 5 mins to consider Obama
Ron Howard shares his view of the upcoming election by getting back into some very old TV characters and recruiting some of those shows’ stars. Nice mini-movie – take a look (4 mins).
Archive for October, 2008
Obama is the World’s choice for President
Interesting question/stat asked/noted CNN’s Jack Cafferty – people in 70 countries polled from May through Sept prefer Obama over McCain by a margin of nearly 4 to 1.
I can hear the arguments now: they don’t live here, they’re not as educated or up on the facts, they don’t know better, etc. etc. But think about it for a minute. Think about the immediate impact on our standing in the world when President Obama is elected.
And let’s be honest, there’s a significant fraction of our electorate that is simply not any better informed than many others around the world.
Election 2008 – Contribute to Important Senate and House Races
Blogger/Professor Sam Wang of Princeton University runs the Princeton Election Consortium blog which provides a scientific analysis of the current US presidential election. The blog (statistically) predicted the outcome of the 2004 election. I highly recommend it.
A week ago, Dr. Wang posted a very interesting article which essentially says that the writing is on the wall for the presidential election, and that if you’re on either side of the political fence (Republican or Democrat) and you’re still interested in supporting (via monetary contributions) your side that you should now consider supporting your party’s candidates in the House and Senate races.
Why? Because assuming that Obama wins the election, if the House and/or Senate majority tips in favor of the Democrats, then they will have a controlling influence over policy for at least the next 2 years and possibly longer. However, should Republicans hold onto their current or gain some additional seats, then they will at least have some leverage in directing policy their way.
In light of this and that I’m quite obviously an Obama supporter in favor of his administration seeing their agenda progressed, I highly recommend you take a look at Dr. Wang’s ActBlue page where you can contribute to some important races.
You should also take a look at this article that gives you good reasons for getting involved in state legislative races.
Register to Vote – Don’t wait, you don’t have much time left
Time’s a wasting. If you’re not registered to vote, get on it. In some states, you may only have a few days. Just open up a new browser window or tab and go to http://maps.google.com/vote. It’ll take less than 10 minutes; I know – I’ve done it. And if you’ve got 5 more minutes, check out this video. It’s a PSA with a bunch of celebrities, and quite a few funny moments.
