Kids predict the winner---Obama

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Thursday October 25, 2012 · 6:00 PM PDT

2012/10/25 · 18:00

It's time to breathe a little easier.

Students at Black Hills High School in Tumwater, Washington have a reputation of predicting the next president in their Mock Elections and this year they voted for Obama, 447-225.

“In regards to the presidential election, I think we’ve called it every time,” said social studies teacher George Rother.- The Olympian

Now I know what you are saying.."Yeah, but this is a school in blue Washington State." I would agree with you but they've been right every time since the school opened in 1997, which means they predicted the double Bush wins, even though the state went for the Democratic candidate both times.

This "news" sent me looking for the other predictive vote done by kids at Weekly Reader. Either that vote hasn't happened yet this year or it won't happen as Weekly Reader is no more since this past summer. --- NYT

Any news from your area about students and their predictive votes?

Quick. Talk Me Down.

AnneofGreatHope

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Wednesday October 15, 2008 · 5:45 PM PDT

2008/10/15 · 17:45

Last night on CNN Anderson Cooper's Show someone mentioned that at this time (October 5, 2000) in the 2000 campaign Gore led in the polls 51% to 40% for Bush.

I wasn't very politically aware during that campaign or else I do not remember that Gore was so far ahead of Bush in the polls so close to the election. So I started freaking out. Could the same thing happen to Obama?

I desperately need someone to "talk me down".

AnneofGreatHope

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Sunday October 05, 2008 · 1:43 PM PDT

2008/10/05 · 13:43

Originally published in the NY Times but picked up by Tacoma News Tribune is a story about the real Maverick family and how they feel about McCain and Palin calling themselves mavericks. It's really a rather humorous story.

"I’m just enraged that McCain calls himself a maverick," said Terrellita Maverick, 82, a San Antonio native who proudly carries the name of a family that has been known for its progressive politics since the 1600s, when an early ancestor in Boston got into trouble with the law over his agitation for the rights of indentured servants.

Don't you love it? Progressive politics!

AnneofGreatHope

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Saturday October 04, 2008 · 11:43 AM PDT

2008/10/04 · 11:43

It's Saturday morning. I'm blithely perusing DKos and other liberal and progressive websites and I think to myself, "Why not wander over and take a look at Gallup and see how those numbers are shaping up over there." Not that eveyone hasn't already reported the good news that Obama is over 50% at Gallup today.

So I open up a new screen wander over to Gallup Daily Tracking Poll just to gloat for a minute and I notice a little tab that I never noticed before: Election Trends by Group. So I wander over that way and what do I find?

Poll

184 votes Show Results

Marital Status of Saturday readership

184 votes Vote Now!

Marital Status of Saturday readership

Married Male

43 votes

Unmarried Male

42 votes

Married Female

46 votes

Unmarried Female

47 votes

None of the above

6 votes

Naughty Me

AnneofGreatHope

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Wednesday October 01, 2008 · 4:16 PM PDT

2008/10/01 · 16:16

I know I shouldn't feel so gleeful about vandalism in my community but, I can't help it, I do!

A few weeks ago on the route I take to work a man put up a huge McCain sign. It is right at the point in the road where I have to look at it while I wait to turn. Every morning, I sit and sneer at the sign wishing that I had the nerve to vandalize it.

I'd think, should I spray paint it with MCSame or McBush or McLame or McMad...well, as it turns out...I didn't have to do anything...

AnneofGreatHope

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Saturday September 13, 2008 · 1:57 PM PDT

2008/09/13 · 13:57

This summer I finally got around the reading the book The Secret by Rhonda Bryne. Most people talked about it last fall when the authors of the concept were on Oprah.

From the book I gleened some concepts that I think are useful to campaigns and all of us.

Follow me below the fold and then let me know what you think...

AnneofGreatHope

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Saturday November 04, 2006 · 10:07 AM PST

2006/11/04 · 10:07

This is probably old news to most of you. I just saw a headline that Ann Coulter is refusing to cooperate with election authorities over the accusation that she knowingly voted in the wrong precinct last February. I attempted to search on kos to see if this has had a diary before...and we all know how well that search tool works on kos. NOT. Read More

State of Denial - October Surprise?

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Friday September 29, 2006 · 7:49 PM PDT

2006/09/29 · 19:49

It's a great day to be a Democrat! First Foley and then this. Bob Woodward's new book, State of Denial, is giving the Repubs fits...and it won't even hit the shelves until Monday. View video here. Watch Tony Snow spin himself silly. Read More

Banned Book Week. Be prepared for inspiration.

AnneofGreatHope

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Sunday September 24, 2006 · 10:15 AM PDT

2006/09/24 · 10:15

September 23-30 is Banned Book Week and as a school librarian I am here to remind you that Free People Read Freely ®. The link is to the American Library Association's (ALA) Webpage that has lots of ideas to promote this event. Check it out.This week is all about our 1st Amendment rights of free speech. So be prepared to be inspired and join in the discussion about your favorite "banned book". Read More

Are we being too Dobsonesque?

AnneofGreatHope

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Saturday September 09, 2006 · 10:49 AM PDT

2006/09/09 · 10:49

Let me stir the pot a bit.

I am the only one who thinks that all the attention we are paying PT/911 is actually going to increase the number of viewers of the show? And how different is what we doing right now compared to what conservatives have done for years concerning the "liberal media".

Certainly you can remember the AFA (American Family Association) boycott of Disney back in the mid-1990s because of Disney's trip away from traditional family values. I remember seeing bumper stickers calling for the boycott thinking it was ludicrous. But according to the article here, it worked.
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Do you boycott Wal-mart?

AnneofGreatHope

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Wednesday September 06, 2006 · 10:15 PM PDT

2006/09/06 · 22:15

This last week-end I got angry with my sister because she asked me what was the point of boycotting Wal-mart when all other stores were just as bad. I was indignant. Of course, Wal-mart is the worst. They are the hugest and the "reddest". Right? Then today I found this article posted in Sojourners on-line magazine comparing Target and Wal-Mart. Hum, the differences aren't so different...Read on... Read More

THe Swift-boating of Cindy not that bad?

AnneofGreatHope

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Sunday August 21, 2005 · 5:11 PM PDT

2005/08/21 · 17:11

If you haven't read it yet Frank Rich's editorial in the NYT "The Swift Boating of Cindy Sheehan" is excellent and makes clear some information rarely seen elsewhere. Namely that when all else fails BushCo always attempt to distract the American people from the problem by changing the focus on the person and go after their character. This "swift-boating" of Cindy hasn't worked and here's why:

The backdrops against which Ms. Sheehan stands - both that of Mr. Bush's what-me-worry vacation and that of Iraq itself - are perfectly synergistic with her message of unequal sacrifice and fruitless carnage. Her point would endure even if the messenger were shot by a gun-waving Crawford hothead or she never returned to Texas from her ailing mother's bedside or the president folded the media circus by actually meeting with her.

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