Political Equinox

On Tuesday, November 11-just a week after the election-myself and a crowd of just over 1,000 people joined Former Senator John Edwards at the IU Auditorium for a lecture running for public office and the future of America. While I enjoyed the lecture and the event showed the speaking power of the man, I felt it was missing an intellectual ingredient. Senator Edwards seemed to gloss over many of the issues we’re seeing America battle and I can’t honestly say I was inspired much by his rhetoric. He didn’t offer up any important changes we need to make, instead I heard a candidate making his case for issues.

I was expecting …

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This is a response to “The Obama Agenda” by Paul Krugman.

Mr. Krugman:

I must respectfully disagree with you. I am not calling on Obama to be “a do-nothing president.” I am calling on him to maintain a left-center tone throughout his presidency. The voters have given him a mandate not on healthcare, not on the economy, not on the war, but on his ability to unify, to lead, to solve the problems our nation faces. As much as conservatives like to claim, Obama did not run on a socialist ideology. I’m sick of hearing that, Barack Obama is not a socialist. He ran left (not socialist left) at the start, then centered a lot. If you aren’t convinced use archive.org …

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Over the past few weeks I’ve heard Barack Obama and other Democratic leaders speak out against “privatizing” Social Security. Now, I’m not sure if privatizing the program is the best way to go, I think we’ve got an awful lot more work to do with regards to that subject. But there is one thing I am sure of, these same people speaking out are railing that Republicans want to gamble with the future of Americans by putting this money into the stock market.

Investing in the stock market is absolutely not gambling. In fact, it’s not even close. Over the past one hundred years, every 10 year period in the stock market has made a positive return (even during the great …

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The New York Times finally got it. With just days to go in the election they finally published a story about the uncanny similarities between the West Wing presidential election and the real life Presidential election. I reached my conclusions five months ago as you can see here, but I’m glad they’ve finally caught up. Here are some updated predictions/premonitions from the show…and the similarities blow me away.

Vice Presidential Candidates

I noted that Santos..err I mean Obama needed to pick a party stalwart - a known quantity in Washington and somebody the party elite is comfortable with. It is obvious that Biden is roughly equivalent to Santos’ …

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Professor Charles Franklin from the University of Wisconsin lectured at Indiana University on Tuesday, September 30. Franklin is the Co-Director of Pollster.com, a website that tracks presidential polling and aggregates data from a variety of polling sources.

Franklin states two criteria for effective display of data on Pollster. First, the data must be “put in perspective.” You can’t spin the data attempting to turn it into som

ething that it doesn’t say. Second, there should be “No cherry picking.” Franklin emphasized that you cannot select certain polls to include in your aggregation to bias results in one direction. If you do this then you’ve eliminated the entire worth of the …

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