A blog by Nicholas Solter about politics and everything else
Posted in Election 2008, Politics on Feb 8th, 2008
Although I still think the format is discriminatory, I enjoyed the novel experience of participating in a caucus last Tuesday evening. Sonja and I recruited her parents to baby-sit so that we could both attend our caucus at a local middle-school. Not knowing how many people would show up, we were pleasantly surprised to find […]
Posted in Barack Obama, Election 2008, Hillary Clinton, Politics on Feb 7th, 2008
A few weeks ago, I wrote about my theory that Hillary Clinton performs worse in caucuses, which require a public display of support, than in primaries, in which voting is private. The recent results from Super Tuesday corroborate this theory far more strikingly than I would have predicted. Of the 22 states in play for […]
Posted in Election 2008, Politics on Feb 5th, 2008
James Dobson, of Focus on the Family infamy, released a statement today that reads in part:
“I am convinced Sen. McCain is not a conservative, and in fact, has gone out of his way to stick his thumb in the eyes of those who are… I cannot, and will not, vote for Sen. John McCain, […]
Posted in Politics on Feb 5th, 2008
This page is useful for finding your polling place. If, like me, you live in a caucus state in which you don’t receive anything by mail from your party telling you where to go to caucus, it’s even more important.
Posted in Barack Obama, Election 2008, Hillary Clinton, Politics on Feb 1st, 2008
We have two great candidates vying for the Democratic nomination for president: Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. I will happily support either of them against any of the Republican contenders, and I think they both would make superb presidents. Additionally, each of them would bring historic diversity to the oval office as the first female […]
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 Election 2008, Politics on Nov 9th, 2007
A study by the Project for Excellence in Journalism reveals some interesting data about the Presidential Election 2008 coverage by the mainstream media so far. Among the findings:
“In all, 63% of the campaign stories focused on political and tactical aspects of the campaign. That is nearly four times the number of stories about the personal […]
Posted in Election 2008, Politics on Oct 31st, 2007
Senator Joe Biden had a pointed dig at Rudy Giuliani in the Democratic debate last night, “There’s only three things he mentions in a sentence: A noun, and a verb, and 9/11.” Watch it here:
I think Biden captured humorously how sick most of are of hearing 9/11 as the justification and excuse for so […]