Joel Housman

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Posts from the “General Election” Category

Rick Santorum For President?

Posted on January 4th, 2012

Rick Santorum just tied Mitt Romney in the Iowa Caucuses last night, which is hilarious for dear old Mittens. What’s even more hilarious (and you’re probably aware of already), is that whenever you search for Rick Santorum in Google or Bing, the website spreadingsantorum.com is usually featured in the top few results. If a concerned conservative (or liberal) voter tries to learn about Rick Santorum’s policy platform or Rick Santorum for president, or even Rick Santorum’s family values, said voter is instead subjected to a mental association likely to hurt Santorum’s chances of winning the Republican nomination and the White House. And that is a problem for America. Why? Because spreadingsantorum.com isn’t the top result. But we can fix that. This post contains a…

I’m With Coco

Posted on January 14th, 2010

Andy Ihnatko does a fine analysis of the current Late Nigh situation. One thing I differ in him though, I Tivo, and watch, both Conan, Letterman, and Craig (along with Jon Stewart of course).

Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight Profiled by the New York Times

Posted on November 11th, 2008

November 10, 2008Finding Fame With a Prescient Call for ObamaBy STEPHANIE CLIFFORDAt 9:46 p.m., blogging on his site FiveThirtyEight.com, Nate Silver called the presidential election for Barack Obama. The television networks followed suit about an hour and 15 minutes later after most polls in Western states closed.Of course, Mr. Silver had a head start: he had forecast that Senator Obama would beat Senator John McCain back in March.In an election season of unlikely outcomes, Mr. Silver, 30, is perhaps the most unlikely media star to emerge. A baseball statistician who began analyzing political polls only last year, he introduced his site, FiveThirtyEight.com, in March, where he used his own formula to predict federal and state results and run Election Day possibilities based on a…

Secrets of the 2008 Campaign: Newsweek’s 7 Part Series

Posted on November 11th, 2008

Newsweek has done a 7 part, very lengthy series of articles written from behind-the-scenes information gathered by their embedded reporters from within the various candidates’ campaigns. They were given great access but had to agree to not write about any of it until after Election Day. Below are links to the 7 chapters of this awesome documentary of words. Chapter 1: How He Did It Chapter 2: Back From The Dead Chapter 3: The Long Siege Chapter 4: Going Into Battle Chapter 5: Center Stage Chapter 6: The Great Debates Chapter 7: The Final Days

Dancing in the Streets

Posted on November 5th, 2008

CNN:Obama win sparks celebrations outside White House (CNN) — As tens of thousands of people cheered Barack Obama’s presidential victory at his home base in Chicago, Illinois, others were celebrating near his future house. At least 1,000 people gathered on Washington’s Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House late Tuesday night, shouting “Obama! Obama!” and “Yes we can!” Uniformed Secret Service officers were overheard, saying they’d never seen anything like it. In Boston, Massachusetts, thousands of people — many of them college students — hit the streets to celebrate the election of the country’s 44th president. The sound of car horns could be heard across the city, CNN affiliate WCVB reported. Boston police said the celebrations were peaceful, but they closed some streets…

Yes We Did.

Posted on November 5th, 2008

President-Elect Barack Hussein Obama.