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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The biggest variable in today’s election could swing the results and it has little to do with the positions of either candidate.

Will the newly registered voters brave the LONG lines to vote or will they give up after seeing the wait?

With wait times exceeding several hours in some places, some estimates in upwards of 3-4 hours, it will be interesting to see if some voters wait it out.

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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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Whoa! I have actually written a blog post for once! I want to thank Neil and Patrick for welcoming me to their site and I want to apologize for not posting anything sooner.  Their invitation to join the site landed squarely in a time where mid terms were looming and I was practically living in the library.  However, now that midterms have passed and IU magically secured a victory over Northwestern, I thought it would finally be a perfect time to post.

It is crunch time for the candidates as the election comes to a close. What is astonishing to me is not the constant bickering of Obama and McCain but rather the failure of the government in securing proper election …

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Since it’s inception in 1804, the Twelfth Amendment has governed every presidential election since, but the clause regarding ties in the electoral college has been used just once. In 1824, Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, William H. Crawford, and Henry Clay all ran for the highest office in the land. Not a single candidate received a majority of the electoral votes.

The process was riddled with corruption and resulted in John Quincy Adams claiming the highest office in the land, leaving the leading candidate Andrew Jackson shortchanged. Jackson had expected the House to vote for him given that he had won a plurality of the electoral vote, but after some bargaining between Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams, Adams was elected.

It’s …

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