Speaking on NPR's "Talk of the World"

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Friday November 07, 2008 · 9:00 AM PST

2008/11/07 · 09:00

It started yesterday as I was driving home from work.

I live in Oslo, Norway, and I was a little late for dinner (as ususal). The announcer on the Morwegian public radio 24 hour news channel said they would be broadcasting the American NPR show called "Talk of the Nation" later that night.

This special edition of the show had been renamed "Talk of the World" because they wanted callers from around the world to call in and provide their thoughts and comments on the US elections.

Having followed these elections with a ridiculously high degree of interest, I decided to place a call to the phone number that the announcer provided.

Nemis

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Monday November 03, 2008 · 3:39 PM PST

2008/11/03 · 15:39

You know it's looking good when the Drudge Report has nothing better to do than to highlight a story that attempts to define "landslide" in such a way that it probably won't apply to this year's election results.

They argue that the 1936 and 1984 elections were most certainly landslides, and they've found a quote from a book that apparently says a landslide has to be more than 60% of the popular vote.

Kathleen Thompson Hill and Gerald N. Hill, in their book, "The Facts on File Dictionary of American Politics," say that while interpretations differ, a landslide might be 60 percent of the popular vote. That's a fairly steep hurdle these days, when the two parties have bases of around 40 percent of the electorate, leaving the other 20 percent to be fought over

Who cares!!! Landslide or not: You guys are losing!!

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"His choice?"

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Friday October 31, 2008 · 9:58 AM PDT

2008/10/31 · 09:58

Watching the recent Obama ad entitled "His choice?" I thought that one of the quotes looked a little suspicious because the quotation marks were only applied to:

"I might have to rely on a vice president that I select"

with the words

for expertise on economic issues

added without quotes.

It made me want to investigate whether the quote was taken out of context or whether this was a correct interpretation of McCain's words. Looking at the transcript of the republican debate from which the quote was taken left me rather surprised. Not only is the quote used quite appropriately, but his description of a hypothetical vice president is so completely non-Palinesque as it could possibly be (see below).

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Thursday October 30, 2008 · 2:30 PM PDT

2008/10/30 · 14:30

Nice weather tends to be good for turnout, which in turn should be good for the Democrats.

Here is the latest weather forecast for Nov 4th. Maybe it's particularly important to bring some extra umbrellas in the states where there might be rain.

Additionally I guess GOTV for early voting in such states as Nevada, Colorado, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Florida is increasingly important.

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Wednesday October 22, 2008 · 7:09 AM PDT

2008/10/22 · 07:09

Sarah Palin has managed to convince most sane Americans that she has extremely limited knowledge about the world we live in. She has also (no pun intended) proven that she is incapable of piecing together a coherent sentence unless it's spelled out on a teleprompter.

For obvious reasons, she probably won't be holding any press conferences prior to the election. But even if she did, would it be possible to assert anything about what she would do as President?

I've tried to use my imagination. What would a potential Palin presidency be like? The conclusion: I have no idea!

The only thing that I'm increasingly convinced about is that she would be a puppet! Maybe not 100%, but perhaps more like 80%. I'm thinking: "Miss Piggy" with a human face :-). Plenty of anger, plenty of charm, but essentially controlled by others.

In order to get her to sign onto presidential decisions her puppet-masters would somehow have to tap into her values and belief systems (whatever they are) but with her tabula rasa brain I'm convinced that she could be programmed to support absolutely anything.

Listening to her latest plagiarism of Hillary, I'm almost thinking that she could have made a good president, as long as progressive Democrats were hired as all her key advisors :-)

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