Political Equinox

So one of the worst kept secrets in Fort Wayne, OK maybe not that bad, but we saw the Wizards Name Change Contest coming months ago after the news was squeaked out by a Journal Gazette reporter during a routine interview with those “Hardball Guys.”

It’s only naturally that a new ownership group considers a re-branding, but don’t you typically not re-brand successful firms? It seems to me that the Wizards continue to set new attendance records and while I still hold the opinion that the team needs to move up to Double-A and get out of the affiliation with the San Diego Padres, I think the team name is just fine.

The community picked the name in the first place, so …

Tags: Branding, colts, fort wayne, IRS, journal gazette, san diego padres, voting, wizards

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.

Tags: Barack Obama, elections, exit polling, Hillary Clinton, ny times, obama, polling data, voting

Let me start this post by saying I hate pork projects. I hate them with a passion. I’d go as far as putting the line item veto in place to stop all those meaty projects. That’s why I have a problem with Ron Paul saying he never votes for pork.

Ron Paul touts himself as a fiscal conservative. No doubt he is, but he goes to the extreme of condemning all spending that isn’t in direct correlation with The Constitution. Ron Paul seems to be posting himself as the poster boy for the anti-Pork proponents. Surely, he would be my candidate.But Paul cannot escape his own statement unscathed.

A …

Tags: America, candidate, Congress, Earmarks, Pork Projects, ron paul, spending, tution, voting