A blog by Nicholas Solter about politics and everything else
Posted in Election 2008, Hillary Clinton, Politics on Jan 16th, 2008
In the race for the Democratic nomination for president, Hillary Clinton did better in New Hampshire, which has a regular primary election, than in the Iowa caucuses. Granted, the sample size of two states is small, there are myriad possible reasons for the differences, and extrapolating from these results is probably not a good idea. […]
Posted in Election 2008, Hillary Clinton, Politics on Jan 15th, 2008
Until recently, I’d blissfully forgotten the right-wing venom and inanity that Bill and Hillary Clinton seem to inspire. But a column titled, Tear-jerking Americas chain by Kathleen Parker brought it all back. Aside from the general silliness of the focus on Clinton’s “tears” at a campaign stop in New Hampshire, and the lack of basically […]
Posted in Election 2008 on Jan 14th, 2008
I don’t like caucuses. I haven’t yet attended one, but my animosity stems not from the specifics of what transpires in the meetings, but from the overall approach. If we were to design a system with the express intention of discouraging as many people as possible from participating in the democratic process, we’d be hard […]
Posted in Education on Jan 11th, 2008
Congratulations to health officials in the state of Colorado for rejecting $488,000 in federal funds for abstinence-only sex education. Abstinence-only sex education doesn’t work (links to PDF), but, nonetheless, it takes some courage to turn down almost half a million dollars. I’m glad the Colorado health officials had sense enough to join 13 other states […]
Posted in Barack Obama, Election 2008, Hillary Clinton, Politics on Jan 9th, 2008
I’m pleased that Hillary Clinton won the New Hampshire primary, but not because I necessarily want her to be the Democratic nominee for president. I haven’t yet decided for whom I’m going to vote, or even yet figured out what one does at a caucus. Nonetheless, I’m pleased because Barack Obama won in Iowa, so […]
Posted in Election 2008, Politics on Jan 8th, 2008
Based on the recent news, one would think that Iowa and New Hampshire are single-handedly electing our next president — or at least nominating the candidate from each party. Sadly, that last notion might be true: Following the results of the Iowa caucuses last week, based on only a few hundred thousand people’s opinions, several […]