I love that our President has a sense of humor.
Category: Politics
Red and Blue⇢
Looking at these maps, it is clear to me that America is more blended politically that some would like to think.
Newsonomics⇢
Ken Doctor:
The Romney crowd was overwhelmingly white and older. The Obama crowd was mixed in color and younger in age.
[…] Around noon Wednesday, I started hearing a voice inside my election-addled head: Where else had I seen numbers like these? Where had I heard that Politico description? Who else was getting a really good market share of a smaller and smaller slice of the population?
Ah, yes: the newspaper industry.
Fixing the GOP⇢
Kyle Baxter knocked this out of the park.
Fox Blames Obama Win on Media Bias⇢
Rich Noyes at Fox:
Fox News and other media outlets have projected that President Obama has been reelected to a second term. If, in celebrating his victory Obama wanted to give credit where credit is due, he might want to think about calling some of America’s top journalists, since their favorable approach almost certainly made the difference between victory and defeat.
LOL.
Today’s Front Pages⇢
Four more years.
What If There is a Tie?⇢
Randall Munroe at XKCD:
Putting all this together: The probability that every battleground state is exactly tied is roughly equal to the probability that, when one of the Florida electors reaches into the hat to draw a name, he or she is struck by a falling cocaine bale, the hat is hurled away within the next few seconds by a tornado, and the elector is obliterated minutes later by a meteorite impact.
A New Foundation⇢
Nilay Patel at The Verge:
There are many other valid reasons to vote for Obama — from health insurance to women’s issues to immigration policy, his platform offers the most complete path to recovery for nation still badly damaged by a terrible recession and two costly wars. But true economic recovery requires more than just replacing what was lost; it requires building something new. The internet is the foundation for an entirely new economy, and it’s vitally important we select a candidate that will protect it. In this election, that candidate is Barack Obama.
Across the Front Lines⇢
This hour-long documentary is a result of my brother’s trip to Sudan this summer. It tells the horrifying story of the genocide currently taking place in the Nuba mountains.
Objective Endorsements⇢
Five newspapers partially-owned by Bain Capital have backed its co-founder Mitt Romney, and none have endorsed President Obama.
While that’s fairly damning, I really dislike that newspapers endorse candidates. Even though journalism professors would say that the Editorial and News departments are separate, that’s a hard thing to pull off in reality.
‘Repugnant’⇢
Nicholas Kristof:
Romney argues that Obamacare is economically inefficient. But where is the efficiency in a system that neglects routine physicals and preventive care, and then pays $550,000 in bills as a result? To me, this is repugnant economically as well as morally.
In the Romney system, people like Scott would remain uninsured. And they would be unable to buy insurance because of their cancer history.
I have written a lot about this, and I will keep writing about it because it matters not only my family, but to millions of other families. A Romney administration would potentially gut the healthcare reform passed by Obama, leaving my son — and millions of others with long-term diseases — with a much darker future. Romney’s system holds people responsible for being stricken with a terrible disease, leaving them unable to pay for or even receive insurance benefits.
Backtracked⇢
I LOL’d at the President. Then wept a little at the thought of having Romney in the Oval Office.