Puadkee (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
As we await the results of the biggest US Presidential Election we have ever seen, I have found an interesting article on how car choice reflects how Americans vote. Kelley Blue Book Market Research surveyed almost 12,000 US car owners and how they planned to vote in the election. They found that owners of larger trucks [...]
The Audacious Epigone (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
In response to Ramesh Ponnuru's comment that even had McCain maintained Bush's white share of the vote at the state level, he would've come up 28 electoral votes short, I compared the '04 and '08 Presidential elections based on national exit polls, showing that the white vote was flat, while the black and Hispanic votes grew at double-digit rates. Whites do not appear to have been enthusiastic...
Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | yesterday
Now that the presidential election is over and Sarah Palin has skulked back to Alaska, we had wondered how politics sites could survive a massive drop-off in post-election traffic. But according to number-crunching whiz kid Nate Silver of fivethirtyeight.com (itself a fledgling politics site), the predicted drop-off in traffic hasn't happened to everyone. A few politics-heavy...
American Sentinel (Free subscription) | yesterday
Okay. Six weeks and one Presidential election apart. Two articles reporting on two polls from the same source (CNNMoney): one titled “Poll: 60% say depression ‘likely’” and one titled “76% say Obama can fix economy - poll.” Am I the only one who sees a contradiction? Let’s backtrack a little bit. Since election day, the Dow has lost 21% of its value, from 9625 on November 4 to...
Start Thinking Right (Free subscription) | yesterday
Okay. Six weeks and one Presidential election apart. Two articles reporting on two polls from the same source (CNNMoney): one titled “Poll: 60% say depression ‘likely’” and one titled “76% say Obama can fix economy - poll.” Am I the only one who sees a contradiction? Let’s backtrack a little bit. Since election day, the Dow has [...]
The Konformist Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/13/AR2008111303287_pf.html 5 Myths About an Election of Mythic Proportions By Chris Cillizza Sunday, November 16, 2008; B03 The 2008 presidential election ended less than two weeks ago, but the mythmaking machine has already begun to churn. President-elect Barack Obama transformed the face of the electorate! The Republican...
Washington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
Americans became smitten with the high drama of the presidential election, but the transition of power is proving less than sexy.
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
Will the next crop of presidential candidates learn from the lessons of 2008 and stick to more meaningful issues than who can be harder on Muslims?
TechChuck (Free subscription) | yesterday
Now that the presidential election is over and Sarah Palin has skulked back to Alaska, we had wondered how politics sites could survive a massive drop-off in post-election traffic. But according to number-crunching whiz kid Nate Silver of fivethirtyeight.com (itself a fledgling politics site), the predicted drop-off in traffic hasn’t happened to everyone. A few politics-heavy...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Paris - Former French presidential candidate Segolene Royal beat out two other candidates in Thursday's election to head the Socialist Party but fell short of gaining a winning majority, French media reported early Friday. Royal will face off later o...
Docuticker (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
US elections 2008 (PDF; 1.8 MB) Source: House of Commons Library Research Papers (UK Parliament) Summary of main points Democratic candidate Senator Barack Obama won the US Presidential Election of 4 November 2008, defeating the Republican candidate Senator John McCain Provisional voting statistics suggest that Obama won 52.6% of the popular vote to McCain’s 46.1% Obama...
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
Miguel Buitrago of MABB speculates on some possible challengers to Evo Morales in the presidential election scheduled for December 2009 in Bolivia.
PostNews Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Eugene CheThe recent US presidential election was reputed for a number of record breaking events, or firsts. It is the first time the US election has ever been so popular, raising emotions in countries around the world. 80% of...
The Prairie Pooch Burrow (Free subscription) | yesterday
After a historic presidential election, the tech-savvy campaigners who helped put Barack Obama in the White House say the nation is in for an equally historic four years of tech-savvy governance. The way the Obama campaign used blogs, texting, social networking and other Web 2.0 tools to win this month's election is just "the tip of the iceberg," said Simon Rosenberg, president...
France24 (Free subscription) | yesterday
Friday's second round of a bitterly contested socialist party election is set to be a close call between former presidential candidate Ségolène Royal and Lille mayor Martine Aubry, the architect of the 35-hour working week.
