Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Eighteen-year-old Heather from Alexandria, Virginia, just graduated from 12th grade home schooling. She isn't sure yet what her occupation will be, but she knows she likes John McCain (also her church, Starbucks coffee, and reading). On a post-primaries jaunt into DC, she spotted this cutout. (Thanks, Ann Raber).
[Rag Muffin ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Dictionary [sAeroZar / Flickr]
[Ann Raber is a BallotVox co-curator.]
Urban Dictionary is a free-for-all dictionary of slang, where anyone can post words or definitions. With little regulation other than a thumbs-up/thumbs-down poll rating a definition's veracity, the site has come to include proper nouns, colloquial expressions, and a plethora of portmanteaus.
Feelings ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
It's harder to find good pro-McCain stuff out in webland. It just is. We resisted admitting that for a while, and we search diligently, but it simply seems to be true. Especially when it comes to creative art, citizen ads, and funny videos. Whether this has something to do with ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
Foot in mouth [g-hat / Flickr]
So Charlie Black, political advisor to McCain, recently said, rather impolitically, that a terror attack in the US would boost McCain in the campaign. This isn't a reaction roundup; just two snippets.
Damian J. Penny, blogging from Halifax, Nova Scotia, questions whether there's any logic to ...
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Saturday, June 21st, 2008
[freshelectrons / Flickr]
On Thursday, Barack Obama declined public financing for the general election. There was a slight lag before citizen talk revved up online -- maybe everyone needed to brush up on campaign finance laws? -- but it was in full swing yesterday. The common camps: 1) Obama lied; he's ...
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Friday, June 13th, 2008
John McCain isn't shy about highlighting his Vietnam service in his campaign. In this sign, photographed by New Orleanian and "drain on society" M Styborski, you can see it doubly: in the military-esque star of McCain's campaign logo and in the choice of the word "honor." Styborski caught the sign ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Vlogger verticalpolitics believes John McCain has said some stupid things during the campaign that deserve to be taken on. McCain's "100 years in Iraq" comment, however, isn't one of them. That remark, says verticalpolitics, has been twisted and taken deliberately out of context by his Democratic opponents (hat tip to ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Libertarians held their nominating convention last weekend in Denver, CO. They picked, as their candidate, former Georgia Republican representative Bob Barr. Apparent Libertarian Carlos attended the convention and recorded the scene on the floor:
[is a brahmin / Flickr]
Much of the post-convention talk seems to center on whether or not Barr ...
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Bobby Jindal [Marc V. Genre / Flickr]
John McCain appears to be narrowing the field of potential running mates. A handful -- including Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal -- will be visiting with McCain in Arizona this weekend. Jindal is 36 and was born to parents who had just immigrated from India. ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Gary R. Welsh, an Indianapolis lawyer, doesn't buy the standard line that Barack Obama floats largely free of the fray of negative campaigning. He recognizes that dirt is part of politics, but he's annoyed that "Obama has been presented with this aura of being above the politics of personal destruction ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
It looks like yoovie moon took this picture at a festival on the streets of Lafayette, Louisiana, last month. It's sort of a surreal trio: John McCain meets Bob Marley meets... an Obama/Adam Sandler hybrid? (Hat tip to Ann Raber.)
[yoovie / Flickr]
Is there really a healthy market for presidential art?
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Telluride's Free Box for free trades
[markschoneveld / Flickr]
Republican, corporate lawyer, and Cubs fan Pat Allen feels that John McCain -- unlike his two potential Democratic rivals -- has shown admirable consistency on free trade (thanks, Ann Raber):
During the Ohio primary last month, Senators Obama and Clinton were in a race ...
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