A blog by Nicholas Solter about politics and everything else
Posted in Barack Obama, Election 2008, Politics on Oct 24th, 2008
As the polls are now open in Colorado, we had a fun early-voting rally for Barack Obama yesterday here in Northern Colorado Springs. About 60 of us first gathered near Starbucks on Academy:
We then walked over to the Chapel Hills Mall, site of the polling place:
We assembled in the mall parking lot (safely outside the […]
Posted in Barack Obama on Oct 17th, 2008
I did some data entry at my local Barack Obama campaign office earlier this week and was pleased to note that the computers were running the Ubuntu operating system. The web browser, of course, was Mozilla Firefox. Both Ubuntu (a Linux-based operating system) and Firefox are open source software, developed in a collaborative, community model. […]
Posted in Barack Obama, Election 2008, Health Care, John McCain, Politics on Oct 9th, 2008
My mother had a great letter published today in the Santa Barbara News Press. Viewing it online requires a login, so here’s the full text:
John McCain’s tax credit of $5000 for health insurance is a drop in the bucket. My husband and I pay $1200 a month for self-employed health insurance premiums. That amounts to […]
Posted in Barack Obama, Choice, Election 2008, John McCain, Politics on Oct 7th, 2008
Since my last post about Joining the Obama Campaign I’ve gone into the local Obama campaign office about once a week to volunteer. Although I tried at first to convince the volunteer coordinators that I should do data entry, they’ve mostly had me making phone calls. The way it works is that I get a […]
Posted in Barack Obama, Election 2008, Politics on Oct 3rd, 2008
As a Barack Obama supporter, I don’t like to criticize his campaign. However, I feel compelled to point out their failure in one area: yard signs. It took me over a month to get an Obama yard sign. I first tried the local campaign office, which has been out of them for weeks (actually, they […]
Posted in Economy, John McCain on Oct 2nd, 2008
From CNN’s Political Ticker comes this gem from the McCain campaign:
John McCain said Thursday that Barack Obama’s poll numbers are rising as the economy seems to sink “because life isn’t fair.”
“He certainly did nothing for the first few days,” McCain told Fox News Thursday. “I suspended my campaign, took our ads down, came back to […]
Posted in Barack Obama, Election 2008, John McCain, Politics on Sep 18th, 2008
Sarah (full disclosure: my sister) is participating in an interesting discussion over at An Angry American. The conversation there is I think quite representative of the political conversation as a whole in this country. Sarah wrote several specific, concrete, points about why she’s voting for Obama: the economy, the war in Iraq, abortion, etc. Her […]
Posted in Barack Obama, Election 2008, Politics on Sep 16th, 2008
For the first time in my voting life, I am living in a state where my vote for president will actually matter. I’m encouraged by the recent trends in Colorado: We have a Democratic governor, Democratically-controlled state legislature, and one Democratic senator. Additionally, Mark Udall, Democratic candidate for the other senate seat, is polling well. […]
Posted in Barack Obama, Election 2008, Hillary Clinton, Politics on Sep 15th, 2008
Today’s article from the LA times about dishonest campaigning is a good example of the mainstream news media attempting to put balance on a story that really isn’t balanced. The article’s generic title and general discussion of dishonesty in campaigns imply that both the Obama and McCain campaigns are stretching the truth. But when you […]
Posted in Election 2008, John McCain, Politics, Sarah Palin on Sep 5th, 2008
When I saw the photo of Sarah Palin’s family on stage at the Republican National Convention, I felt like I was a part of some surreal alternative universe. There was Palin’s seventeen year-old pregnant unmarried daughter and her boyfriend. And the conservatives were cheering their hearts out. Even James Dobson of Focus on the Family […]