Archives for October 2008

I’m glad I did this. Love wish I’d knocked on more doors — but people were just so closed minded. Particularly pathetic were commondreams and counterpunch refusing to publish a word about this project (they had in years past).

Spread the word Talk about it on discussion boards. Hook up with someone and spread the word together. Let us know. Co-write an article together describing what you are doing and explaining why. Distribute the flier. Play “mat

McKinney states that the debate was basically run unilaterally by the Nader campaign, she will be on C-Span’s “Washington Journal” Friday at 9 am ET. Moderator Chris Hedges claimed that Chomsky will be voting for Obama, but what he read I don’t think backed that up. In his interview with The Real News, which I […]

Moderator Chris Hedges just claimed that Chomsky will be voting for Obama, but what he read I don’t think backed that up. In his interview with The Real News, which I think Hedges based his comments on, Chomsky seemed to advise people “in swing states” to vote for Obama. Chomsky lives in Massachusetts, which no […]

After the the BBC allegedly did a “global poll” which only listed Obama and McCain (I guess ballot access restrictions are even more stringent in Canada), I wrote the piece “If Everyone in the World Could Vote, Obama Would Win. Right?” which argued that — despite the lack of media coverage — third party and […]

(1 unsatisfied Democrat) * (1 unsatisfied Republican) –VotePact–> (2 happy independents) “VotePact: The Next Phase of the R3VOLution” “VotePact, it‘s like getting your vote and eating it too.” “Freeing the Public, Two at a Time” “Don’t cancel your vote with your friend’s — double your votes together.”

You would vote for Obama. Your neighbor would vote for McCain. You would cancel each other out. Instead, you decide to team up and magnify your votes by both voting for other candidates. Now, video it. YouTube is teaming up with PBS, encouraging people to “Video Your Vote”. I can’t say I embrace the politics […]

Back in December 2007, Matt Waterman, who set up one of the blind taste test web pages for the primaries told me: Five months after launch we’ve had over 200,000 people use the tool to find out how well candidates’ views match up against their own. Records from the submissions have shown the most common […]

While speaking with Philip Meyer, Knight Chair in Journalism at the University of North Carolina a while ago, he mentioned the “spiral of silence” to me, not sure if I’d ever heard of it. It was coined by Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann asdf– people who think that they are elizabeth be-neumann failure to speak up — didn’t […]

It’s all rather late in the game — what isn’t? — but Third Party Ticket is organizing a more inclusive debate, for Sunday October 19th, 2008 from 7pm to 9pm ET. The group has invited Chuck Baldwin, Bob Barr, Cynthia McKinney, Ralph Nader, Barack Obama and John McCain. For a taste, see Democracy Now’s simulated […]