Here is Ron Paul’s statement from the Campaign for Liberty from the event on Wednesday. Here’s the first chunk of video on YouTube with Paul introducing the news conference and his four principles on foreign policy, privacy, the national debt and the federal reserve. Part 7 begins with me asking the candidates about VotePact and […]
Ron Paul Backs Third Party and Independent Candidates
Ron Paul organized a news conference today with Ralph Nader (Independent), Cynthia McKinney (Green Party) and Chuck Baldwin (Constitution Party). See Kevin Zeese’s writeup: “Ron Paul Press Conference Unifies Third Party and Independent Candidates Around Four Key Positions.” I asked about VotePact and was well-received, will post video or transcript as soon as I get […]
Group Calls for Making Presidential Debates Contract Public
Via the Institute for Public Accuracy — full disclosure: I [Sam Husseini] work there: GEORGE FARAH, gfarah@opendebates.org Executive director of the group Open Debates, Farah said today: “Sen. Lindsay Graham of the McCain campaign and Rep. Rahm Emanuel of the Obama campaign have negotiated a detailed contract that dictates the terms of the 2008 presidential […]
A New Way To Vote — As A Duet
Originally published on Sunday, October 29, 2000 Come election day, millions may vote for George W. Bush and Al Gore while not believing in them. Doubtlessly, some will vote for one of these two enthusiastically, but sometimes it seems neither of these candidates has inspired many beyond their immediate family and those on their campaign […]
Michelle Obama Unintentionally Makes the Case for VotePact
And Barack stood up that day, and spoke words that have stayed with me ever since. He talked about “The world as it is” and “The world as it should be.” And he said that all too often, we accept the distance between the two, and we settle for the world as it is — […]
The Turbulent Electorate: Palin Goes from Zero to 60 in One Week
Rasmussen Reports: A week ago, most Americans had never heard of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. Now, following a Vice Presidential acceptance speech viewed live by more than 40 million people, Palin is viewed favorably by 58% of American voters. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 37% hold an unfavorable view of the […]
Fund an Honest Poll?
As we’ve noted here, no one is doing an honest public opinion poll. Every
Talk to the People in Your Life
Probably the most-asked question about VotePact is the question of trust. How can you trust someone you’ve met on the internet? Well, we’re using the internet to spread this idea, have set up a FaceBook page and such, but we’re not really suggesting that people meet on the internet. We want people to deal with […]
Evidence of a Trapped Electorate
I’ve been talking to several polling experts, especially sharing my “Why Public Opinion Polls Aren’t” piece. Charles H. Franklin at the University of Wisconsin sent me some interesting polls, especially this one: FOX News/Opinion Dynamics Poll [June, 2007] Would you consider voting for a presidential candidate you like who is a third party independent candidate? […]
Why Public Opinion Polls Aren’t
[A shorter version of this piece was originally published by the Dallas Morning News on September 27, 2004.] With all the discussion of polls and the presidential race it may be hard to believe, but I have yet to see a single poll asking whom people want to be president. Virtually every poll has a […]