Submitted by Jasongoldberg:
socialmedian's Jason Goldberg, Twit.tv's Leo Laporte, and several guests discuss election night and the impact of technology on campaign 2008. (Read More)
: So how do the hard working folks keep the new liberal president and the largely democratic senate and house out of our pockets. The one thing that we cannot afford is 12% unemployment, 12% annual cost of living increases, tax rates doubling accross the board, etc that has been seen when liberalism runs rampant. So where does the small business man go when the mandates that our new president says he will pursue makes it impossible to stay afloat and we die, along with our employees joining the unemployment lines..... We can only hope that he is a smart as the "majority" thinks he is and he does not play the stupid card.
Mashable!
Is there anything Twitter can’t do? Apparently, you can even use it to guesstimate the result of US presidential elections in certain states. This little chart below, although not graphically beautiful, is the result of some algorithms put together by Setfive Consulting. They’re parsing tweets to see if users ha (Read More)
: This reminds me of "Dewey defeats Truman". The US twitter community is significantly left-leaning, which automatically leads to bad polling data. I love twitter, but using it to predict political issues is silly, the majority of the twitter community are almost guaranteed to be democrats or at least left-leaning independents.
: socialmedian users. if you want to be part of our election night podcast with @leolaporte, leave me a comment here. Will discuss details tues afternoon.
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AP Photo-Dubuque, IADubuque, IA–In front of two huge “Victory in Iowa” signs, Palin rallied a crowd of around 3,500 at an events center here. She expressed confidence for a win tomorrow telling supporters that her running mate is headed for victory.“Appreciate you so much coming out today. End of a campaign trail that (Read More)
Crooks and Liars
I'm so sick of this freaking clown already. Of course everyone is entitled to their opinions, but this guy is a full-blown McCain surrogate now and McCain should be forced to repudiate this kind of divisive crap.ABC:"McCain has fought and bled for our country, loves our country," said Joe Wurzelbacher, aka "Joe the Plumber, (Read More)
: And this is on Fox News. I wonder if Fox News does anything other than glorifying McCain and Palin. Recently they got an _independent_ poll which shows that Fox has covered both McCain and Obama equally! We all know what they say about the guilty conscience
: Joe the Plumber is a full-blown clown. "So, does an Obama presidency mean the death of Israel?" asks a person in the crowd. Joe says, "I'm going to agree with you on that."
: Sheesh - people drool all over themselves when some mindless Hollywood partyhound muffinhead spouts off about a candidate. Why go off on a normal American Citizen that works a 40hr a week manual labor job??? I mean this country was built by guys like Joe the Plummer: hard working, blue collar, socially aware. Not those self aggrandized ninnies in Hollywood. How in touch with reality are you when you are getting chauffeured from $500 lunch meetings to personal yoga trainers to $500 martini meetings? Cut Joe some slack!
Crooks and Liars
I touch wood everytime I say or right that it now looks as nearly certain as it can be that Obama will be the next President of the United States. But, of course, Obama is correct that all the polling in the world is meaningless if people decide that they can stay home on Election Day because Obama is going to win anyway. S (Read More)
LOL: The Life of Leo
Amber and I interview Jason Goldberg of the new social news site Social|Median on tonight’s net@night (you can listen in the player to the right). (Read More)
Submitted by Jasongoldberg
from YouTube:
MONTREAL — A Quebec comedy duo notorious for prank calls to celebrities and heads of state has reached Sarah Palin, convincing the Republican vice-presidential nominee she was speaking with French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
http://www.justiciers.tv/. (Read More)
: stupidsarah dumber than forrestgump who doesn't know our Pledge of Allegiance or other fundamental national history, doesn't know what a VP does, doesn't know what foreign policy is, governor workload of 90 days/yr, doesn't know how to refrain from personal firing convicted troopergate, personal spending of family trips on gov't expense reports, lying on bridges, can't get through an interview with an intelligent sentence or a rally without spewing foul venom of instigating label terrorist this and smiling like a good little kkk when people say kill him; such a small small person with no class; but what comes around goes around the karma circlie you get back double what you do in life
Submitted by Jmalmberg:
October 31, 2008 – This is a question that you have probably not asked yourself. According to the Constitution, to serve in the US Senate - which he currently does - requires US citizenship. But there is now a small but growing group of people who are actually questioning Obama’s citizenship credentials in the federal court (Read More)
: It's utter (and long discredited) disinformation, chiefly led by right-wing talkshow hosts who have no scruples about making completely unfounded assertions for ratings. (I know - I used to work with Michael Savage.)
Do you trust the non-partisan factcheck.org? http://tr.im/pq7 or PolitiFact http://tr.im/pq9 ? They debunked this b.s. back in June.
: @bwana Ummm... seal and signature are on the BACK SIDE of the birth certificate original, and so therefore don't appear in a scanned version as provided. Actual certificate IS signed and sealed per confirmation of the officials in Hawaii. Don't spread misinformation.
: @calgaryguru You just confirmed what I said. Do you know how easy it is to get a copy of a birth certificate for purposes like this? I can't get on a cruise ship without an _original_ copy of my birth certificate and the Obama camp provides a photocopy for proof of citizenship? And answer me this, why FREEZE the records until AFTER the election? Come on man. All I'm saying is, if it's not an issue, just provide valid proof and everyone will shut up. If you leave room for speculation, there will be speculation.
Submitted by Leolaporte:
I call on all Obama supporters to consider immediately wearing clothes of mourning... a black arm band or a black shirt or some other article of black clothing - in a peaceful protest... not only against the feeling that the election has been or is being stolen...But in protest that in the year 2008 - when Technology is so (Read More)
: How about a call to action! "November 4th, 2008 a date that will live in infamy - the constitution was suddenly and deliberately attacked through lies and deceptions." Shout it, blog it, twitter it and podcast it. The blogosphere is mightier then the sword! You, sir, are mightier then the sword! Mourning is for the dead. Democracy isn't dying on my watch. (Sorry I have been watching a little too much Keith Olbermann.)