Chalk this post up to catch up from last week’s downtime. Without getting into a lot of details, I had a discussion last week with another liberal family member who expressed intimidation at debating a more conservative family member on…
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Obama Increases Lead on McCain
by Dan Chmielewski • • 5 Comments
This from www.fivethirtyeight.com. President-elect Obama has 345 electoral college votes to McCain’s 193. These numbers based on state-by-state polling results from multiple sources aggregated to project a singel outcome. Of course, this changes weekly and a lot can happen between…
Irvine Republicans Get Campaign Cash from “Protect Marriage” Amendment’s Largest Backer
by Dan Chmielewski • • 2 Comments
…I’m a mom with three kids and I don’t want gay pride festivals or public sex in bathrooms in my city,” said Christina Shea, leader of the coalition… – May 1990, American Spectator, “The Evil Emperor of Irvine, California” *…
The 2008 Presidential Electoral College Map
by Dan Chmielewski • • 11 Comments
I advise fellow LiberalOC.com readers to check out an excellent website, www.FiveThirtyEight.com. The 538 signifying the total number of electoral college votes for president. Editor’s Note: The data from fivethirtyeight.com came from http://3bluedudes.com/ProjectDatabase.htm which has an election projection database that combines…
Frank Mickadeit Finally Catches Up
by Dan Chmielewski • • 28 Comments
Nice to see the Register’s Frank Mickadeit finally catch up to the blogs on the Dick Ackerman running for Mayor of Irvine rumor we first reported on, with no confirmation or denial from Ackerman’s staff, and which Matt Cunnnigham quashed…
Fight the Smear
by Dan Chmielewski • • 3 Comments
Senator Barack Obama has proven he’s not to be swiftboated with a new site on his campaign web page. Fight The Smear is already generating a lot of traffic. I heard the rumor yesterday that there is supposed to be…
The Willie Horton-ing of Barack Obama
by Dan Chmielewski • • 1 Comment
Floyd Brown is the creator of the infamous Willie Horton ad than sunk the candidacy of Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis in 1988. The ad portrayed Dukakis as soft on crime even though crime rates plunged in the late 80s as…
