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Obama’s gettin’ Diggie with it

» by russ December 10th, 2008 at 11:39 pm » View Comments

So President-Elect Obama has created a Digg like interface for his change.gov site. As CNET reports the site allows you to vote up or down issues you would like to have the administration work on. As you might expect the vast majority of popular questions are questions about how he will be the [...]



What would you sell your vote for?

» by russ November 14th, 2007 at 11:02 pm » View Comments

What would you sell your vote for? Would you sell it for an iPod Touch? How about a free ride to NYU? In an apparent example of how messed up our country is many NYU students said they would.
Only 20 percent said they’d exchange their vote for an iPod touch.
But 66 [...]



Court rules vote swapping sites legal

» by russ August 6th, 2007 at 10:02 pm » View Comments

The 9th Federal circuit court of appeals ruled that vote swapping sites are legal. I was not aware of these sites before reading this article on CNET News so here are some details:
The purpose of the sites, which included the now-defunct voteswap2000.com and votexchange2000.com, was to let a Nader supporter in a state where [...]



Republican YouTube debates

» by russ July 28th, 2007 at 7:34 am » View Comments

Michelle Malkin had a post about how the Republicans should not run away from the CNN/YouTube debates and instead should call them on their crap. I think she is right. Running away from a debate like this will send a message that Republicans are somehow afraid of “real people”. Instead I [...]



OMG! Obama

» by russ July 10th, 2007 at 6:12 pm » View Comments

I guess I’m a bit out of the loop here but I saw the Obama Girl video today and I think this will most likely help Barack Obama get some votes from the 18-34 year old male crowd. What do you think? I think this is pretty funny but it would be very [...]



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