Month: November 2008

Meeting Obama

I just dare you to watch this and not be moved. He didn’t say it in so many words, but I’m willing to bet that Charles Alexander has thought to himself at some point, “I never thought I’d live to see the...

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Election Night News Bucket

“A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.”- Frederick Douglass Exit polls are coming...

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Anecdote

How’s this for serendipity? We had a problem with our plumbing today and it was kind of an emergency. So, we called the plumbers and they sent a guy named ‘Joe’ out to the house. So, Joe the Plumber came to my...

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Voting Machines Failing

Update [2008-11-4 13:48:27 by Steven D]: Philadelphia voters (and maybe Pennsylvania voters, in general) please read this article in the Philadelphia Inquirer before you vote. It seems the voting machines may cancel out votes...

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My Experience Voting

I’m back from voting in Charlestown Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania (District 6). I met Bob Roggio’s wife at the polling station and had a nice long chat with her about her husband’s contest against Jim...

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