Month: October 2012

Democracy Corp provides some data on the difference in candidate preference among people with different telephone habits (cell only, mostly cell, mostly landline, landline only). Democrats made the same argument in 2004 to argue...

. CNN interview on damage from storm surge. Governor Jack Markell from Delaware in remarks on Sandy and federal disaster relief from FEMA: “Romney is an idiot.” Would Romney abolish FEMA? His campaign says no...

Many outside observers find it difficult to understand why the US Presidential election is even close. On the one hand you have a President who has ended one war, is ending another, and has avoided entanglement in a few more...

Went to Village Hall here in Chicago’s suburbia to vote early, my first time ever early voting. Couldn’t park. The very large number of spaces were all taken.  Will try again Wednesday about 10:00AM as I have...

We are expecting 20-25 foot waves on the Lake Ontario shoreline tonight and winds as high as 65 mph after midnight. I live about 5 miles from the Ontario shore line. That if anything brings home to me the immensity of this...