Election Night in Singapore! With Liveblogging

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Saturday May 07, 2011 · 7:07 AM PDT

2011/05/07 · 07:07

It's election night in Singapore! It's one of the most contested elections in Singapore history, with the opposition contesting 82 of the 87 seats in Parliament. (Back in the last election, in 2006, they contested about half as many). Results are going to start coming in over the next hour, and I'm going to be liveblogging the results. I have a post that will give you some very general background about politics in Singapore here, for those who like to actually know what's going on. The rest of you should feel free to read on :)

This post is going to cover the most exciting races. I'll post updates in comments as the night progresses and results come in. Feel free to ask questions -- I'm just a US expat, but I'm at an election night party in a room full of excited Singaporeans and I'll ask them your questions if I don't know the answers.

Neil Sinhababu

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Wednesday August 12, 2009 · 10:46 AM PDT

2009/08/12 · 10:46

The other day, I had this idea for helping health care reform get through the Finance Committee. It involved superheroes.

With that introduction, I give you: Captain Ineffective!

Poll

19 votes Show Results

Favorite Superhero

19 votes Vote Now!

Favorite Superhero

Robo-Orszag

0 votes

Captain Obama

11 votes

Angelic Pelosi

1 vote

Wax-man

5 votes

Captain Ineffective

2 votes

I bought saxby-chambliss.com and had some fun!

Neil Sinhababu

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Tuesday October 21, 2008 · 2:47 PM PDT

2008/10/21 · 14:47

Saxby Chambliss has made a critical error, and the time for our attack has come :)

About a week ago, I noticed that Georgia GOP Senator Saxby Chambliss, currently being challenged by progressive hero Jim Martin, had allowed the URL saxby-chambliss.com to go unclaimed.

So I bought it. And then I put up a website which you can see here:
http://saxby-chambliss.com/

Neil Sinhababu

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Monday September 15, 2008 · 8:03 PM PDT

2008/09/15 · 20:03

On September 9, John McCain announced the formation of the "Palin Truth Squad". It consisted of a bunch of mostly female Republicans, trying to "set the record straight against Internet and liberal smears of Governor Palin." Their first act was... 'lipstick on a pig'.

A few days ago, I noticed that the group didn't have its own website. So I built a site for the Palin Truth Squad! Have a look!

Neil Sinhababu

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Monday December 31, 2007 · 10:58 AM PST

2007/12/31 · 10:58

Last weekend, I decided to make a video blog post explaining why people should support John Edwards for president. Unfortunately, the full moon came up and this caused some technical difficulties. But I did the video anyway, and put in subtitles to make up for the fact that I could only bark and growl:

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105 votes Show Results

Which GOP candidate will get the zombie vote?

105 votes Vote Now!

Which GOP candidate will get the zombie vote?

Giuliani

23 votes

Huckabee

14 votes

McCain

14 votes

Romney

15 votes

Thompson

39 votes

VoteVets, MoveOn, and the 527s of an Edwards summer

Neil Sinhababu

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Tuesday October 02, 2007 · 10:07 AM PDT

2007/10/02 · 10:07

I just realized the other day that I can't remember a single one of the Kerry campaign's 2004 ads. I guess I remember a few visuals (one of the ads involved a big bale of hay) but even then I can't remember what the ads were about.

By comparison, 527 ads tend towards the unforgettable. Consider the classic VoteVets ad where the guy pulls out an AK-47, shoots two dummies, reveals the bulletholes in the stomach of the dummy that wasn't wearing body armor, and tells you that George Allen voted against armoring the troops. You remember the feeling in your stomach after you saw that.

Do you want this spring and summer to be all about 527s kicking the Republican nominee silly with hard-hitting ads that would make Bob Shrum's face turn white? And do you want to pick which ads go on the air? I do too. And if John Edwards is our nominee, that's what will happen.

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47 votes Show Results

If Edwards wins the nomination, which 527 will you donate to or start up?

47 votes Vote Now!

If Edwards wins the nomination, which 527 will you donate to or start up?

Firefighters Against Giuliani

6 votes

Doctors for Universal Health Care

24 votes

Biofuel Advocates for Limbaugh Liposuction

7 votes

Americans Who Are More Consistent Than Mitt Romney

8 votes

Other (tell us in comments!)

2 votes

Will Republicans Eat Obama's Lunch? (or: how not to end a war)

Neil Sinhababu

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Sunday August 12, 2007 · 7:38 AM PDT

2007/08/12 · 07:38

Here's Barack Obama at the past week's AFL-CIO debate, explaining why he took so long to come out against the Iraq War supplemental, and making me wonder if he's really that naive:

My hope was that we would start seeing some progress among the Republicans, where they would begin to agree with us on a timetable to withdraw.

Did he really think we could get enough Republican votes to end the war through some kind of bipartisan agreement? If so, he had no idea what the legislative state of play was until terribly late. And more importantly, he doesn't understand the contemporary Republican Party.

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42 votes Show Results

Does Obama really think Republicans will participate in good-faith negotiations?

42 votes Vote Now!

Does Obama really think Republicans will participate in good-faith negotiations?

Yes, and it's going to work! Have the audacity of hope!

14 votes

No, Obama doesn't really believe in negotiation and compromise. His whole shtick is just BS. It's tragic.

8 votes

No, Obama doesn't really believe in negotiation and compromise. His whole shtick is just BS. And good for him!

6 votes

Yes, and Karl Rove will enjoy many more of Obama's delicious ham sandwiches.

14 votes

Hillary to delay universal health care... for eight years?

Neil Sinhababu

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Thursday August 02, 2007 · 9:26 AM PDT

2007/08/02 · 09:26

Yesterday, Hillary Clinton told us that there is "no debating the moral urgency of strengthening our healthcare system for children and all Americans."

The trouble is that she feels that moral urgency less than any other Democrat. If it's so urgent to her, why is she missing union deadlines for coming up with a universal health care plan? And why does she want to put off universal health care until a hypothetical second term that she may never get?

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169 votes Show Results

Who is most likely to deliver universal health care?

169 votes Vote Now!

Who is most likely to deliver universal health care?

Hillary Clinton

21 votes

John Edwards

128 votes

Barack Obama

20 votes

SurveyUSA: Edwards crushes Giuliani in Midwestern Swing States

Neil Sinhababu

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Sunday May 13, 2007 · 6:12 PM PDT

2007/05/13 · 18:12

On May 2, SurveyUSA released some interesting single-state head-to-head primary polls featuring Clinton, Edwards, and Obama against Rudy Giuliani. Unfortunately, SUSA has recently become resistant to putting all their data on a single easy-to-use chart (this data is on 33 different pie graphs!) so I had to do the work. It's listed below, with the Democrat's number first and Giuliani's number second.

Poll

158 votes Show Results

Why do they like Edwards so much in the Midwest?

158 votes Vote Now!

Why do they like Edwards so much in the Midwest?

They average his Southern accent and his progressive positions, and he comes out looking like a Midwestern moderate.

39 votes

In the Rust Belt, everybody's dad was a mill worker, and he comes across as one of them.

47 votes

He won a lot of people over while campaigning there previously.

43 votes

They actually don't! But they do like that psychic guy named John Edward, and that's who they thought the poll was about.

21 votes

Other (please don't be afraid to explain in comments! I'm curious to hear!)

8 votes

The Best Idea In The World

Neil Sinhababu

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Monday March 19, 2007 · 3:48 AM PDT

2007/03/19 · 03:48

I'm so happy to see one of our potential nominees saying this:

Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards on Thursday outlined his plan to tackle global poverty that calls for educating 23 million children in poor countries and creating a Cabinet-level position to oversee other initiatives.

Seeking to link poverty in other countries to U.S. national security, Edwards argued that militant extremists in nations torn apart by poverty and civil war have replaced government educational systems and are teaching young people to hate the United States.

"When you understand that, it suddenly becomes clear: global poverty is not just a moral issue for the United States -- it is a national security issue for the United States," he said at Saint Anselm College.

"If we tackle it, we have the chance to change a generation of potential extremists and enemies into a generation of friends," Edwards said.

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41 votes Show Results

How will America overcome radical Islam?

41 votes Vote Now!

How will America overcome radical Islam?

By killing Muslims, and then killing Muslims who are angry that we killed Muslims, and then killing Muslims who are angry that we killed Muslims who were angry that we killed Muslims...

9 votes

With enough foreign aid to convince Muslims everywhere that we're on their side, so they turn against Osama, and eventually start buying <i>Buffy</i> Season 2 DVDs.

23 votes

By parachuting John Kerry and Wes Clark into Afghanistan with submachine guns, like the two soldiers from <i>Contra</i>. Up up down down left right left right b a select start!

9 votes

Edwards attacks escalation on Tonight Show (w / petition and poll)

Neil Sinhababu

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Thursday January 11, 2007 · 6:44 PM PST

2007/01/11 · 18:44

Last night, right after Bush asked for another 20,000 lives to risk in Iraq, John Edwards took to the air to stop him. Edwards has been among the most intense Democratic opponents of Bush's attempts to escalate the war - click the picture to sign his
petition against escalating the war.

I've transcribed some of his appearance on the Tonight Show last night. Here it is:

Leno: Bush has called for this surge of 20,000 more troops. What do you think of this?

Edwards: I think he's dead wrong. Dead wrong.

Poll

90 votes Show Results

What's your position on escalation in Iraq?

90 votes Vote Now!

What's your position on escalation in Iraq?

I'm so anti-escalation that I feel nervous about riding escalators.

76 votes

Iraq is so depressing that I refuse to think about it and thus have no opinions on the issue.

6 votes

Who cares? I just want to make fun of some Democrats. Also, my name is Joe Klein, and I am a complete assclown.

4 votes

I want to surge troops into Iraq! 20,000 more will surely find crush the insurgency, find the WMD, undo 9/11, and make a hippie somewhere feel bad!

4 votes

Freep This Poll, Help a Lesbian Parent... UPDATE: Victory!

Neil Sinhababu

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Friday December 15, 2006 · 8:19 PM PST

2006/12/15 · 20:19

Update: Unofficial totals show us with a 3827-3783 victory! Thanks to all who voted!

The race for Best New Blog is the closest of the big races in the 2006 Weblog Awards. It's between Lesbian Dad, the blog of a lesbian non-birth-parent, and Hang Right Politics, a right-wing blog. Here's the vote totals at present:

Hang Right Politics - 3506
Lesbian Dad - 3357

If you want to help Lesbian Dad win, all you have to do is go here and vote for Best New Blog! We need 150 votes and we need them right away!

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I bought saxby-chambliss.com and had some fun!

I built a website for McCain's "Palin Truth Squad"

I am a werewolf and I support John Edwards

VoteVets, MoveOn, and the 527s of an Edwards summer

Will Republicans Eat Obama's Lunch? (or: how not to end a war)

Hillary to delay universal health care... for eight years?

SurveyUSA: Edwards crushes Giuliani in Midwestern Swing States

The Best Idea In The World

Edwards attacks escalation on Tonight Show (w / petition and poll)

Freep This Poll, Help a Lesbian Parent... UPDATE: Victory!