When President Elect Barack Obama announced his candidacy on Feb 10, 2007 he already had a full fledged web site with tools making it easy for supporters to meet and organize, as well as contribute to the campaign. This gave him a head start against his competitors. Throughout the election race, Obama’s campaign utilized the internet more and more.
During this election cycle, the Timesreported today, ACORN has deployed thirteen thousand mostly paid workers, who have registered 1.3 million new voters. One or two per cent of these workers turned in sheaves of forms that they filled out themselves with fake names and bogus addresses, and, even though at least a hundred of these workers have already been fired, the forged forms have been submitted to election boards.
Sounds suspicious—unless you know that groups like ACORN are required by law to submit them, even if they’re obvious fakes. This is to prevent funny business, such as trashing forms that look like they might be Republican (or Democratic, as the case may be).
Sounds suspicious—unless you know that ACORN normally sorts through forms, flags those that look fishy, and submits the fishy ones in a separate pile for the convenience of election officials.
Joe Plumber has only been on the seen for one day and already he has done more interviews than Sarah Palin. Before Wednesdays debate even ended, there were three local news stations parked on Mr Plumber’s lawn waiting to interview him.
If your wondering what all the fuss is about regarding Joe Wurzelbacher (Joe Plumber), here is the video clip that sparked the debate.
The estimated population of the United States is 304,908,878
so each citizen’s share of this debt is $33,807.65.
The National Debt has continued to increase an average of $3.40 billion per day since September 28, 2007!
Concerned? Then tell Congress and the White House!
As part of his plan to suspend his campaign activities, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) decided to cancel his appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman. McCain’s campaign reportedly told Letterman that the senator was “racing back to Washington.” That, however, didn’t happen. In his last night, Letterman showed footage of McCain sitting down with CBS’s Katie Couric for an interview at the same time he was supposed to be on his show.