Political Equinox

He’s arguably one of the biggest names in renewable energy lately, as over the past few weeks he’s attempting to make himself a household name with a $58 million advertising blitz. The man’s name is T. Boone Pickens, and the self-proclaimed oil man brings an interesting proposal to the table just months before the ever-important presidential election.

While you have to give the man credit for bringing a well-conceived proposal to the table of this perpetual brainstorming session, he only scores just over half. In short, his idea of revitalizing the middle portion of the country by bringing “green jobs” (Sorry, but I couldn’t resist throwing in a few words Hillary Clinton buzzword vocabulary) to rural towns and utilizing the wind …

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With Obama dragging out his selection process for at least few more weeks, we’ve still got plenty of time to speculate about the myriad of potential candidates, but recently Indiana Senator Evan Bayh has been thrust into the spotlight as a likely choice for the VP nominations. Add to the fact that John Edwards is essentially out of the picture with his recent spectacle, Bayh has all the more chance of landing the job.

Bayh made a joint appearance with Obama last week in Indiana and appeared opposite Joe Lieberman on Fox News Sunday arguing vehemently in favor of Obama’s policies and giving that ever-so-famous non-answer to the …

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Great work by Shan Carter and Amanda Fox of the NY Times. They have complied an interactive and interesting graphic of exit polling data between Obama and Clinton.

Check out the full version in action.

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For anyone who remembers the Pokemon game for Nintendo’s Gameboy…

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A couple of months ago I was watching a debate between Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and John Edwards. Barack made a statement to the effect that he voted against a bill providing limits on credit card interest rates because he thought the rate of 30% was too high. Edwards called him on the statement, but the debate pressed on.

Barack’s statement stuck with me, why did he vote against that bill. Why? He said that he thought the rate was too high, so I decided that he voted against the bill to keep the debate continuing - it didn’t make a whole lot of sense, but I decided that I’d go with it.

Then I read his website:
Obama supports extending a 36 percent interest …

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