For The Sake of Accuracy…And Being A Prick

Just because I’m a goof, I feel like bugging Matt. the other day, Matt said every time the Redskins won the last home game before an election, the incumbent won. Well, I got my handy dandy Snopes newsletter, and apparently that didn’t hold true in 2004. Then again, maybe that was a sign of the …

Citizens Of the Planet Earth, Vote!

Here’s a message for anyone who didn’t bother to vote. I’m not talking about people who made aconscious decision not to vote because they couldn’t support anyone. I’m talking about the ones who just think they don’t know enough, or they didn’t have time, bla bla bla. Astronauts can do it from space for Christ’s …

Straight Tickets Are Anything But Straight Forward

No wonder there are so many problems with elections in the United States. Who could possibly make sense out of any ofthis?I like to think that I’m a reasonably smart guy, but I’ve read this twice and still have no idea what the heck I’d supposed to be doing to make my votes count. The …

Finally Some Clean Politics

Clean cars reflect election outcome? One local businessman says he’s got a better way to predict the outcome of the presidential election: Ask his customers. “My wife and I were talking about the election with our kids and polling came up, how it can be skewed based on the way they phrase the question to …