Author: Dave

I was over visiting The Volokh Conspiracy’s discussion of the polls. And I Said something like: America is not a predominately socialist/communist country. As to why the polls are wrong: the pollsters are cooking the books. Operation Chaos screwed voter ID numbers. Republicans don’t like being polled. PUMAs are being seriously under counted. Commenter LM…

The pollsters at Gallup are predicting a 13 point win for Obama. Me? I’ve looked at their numbers (you should too) and I don’t believe them. History will show that the pollsters have been consistently wrong all through the primaries and they will be no better in the general. Cross Posted at Power and Control

He is talking about how he will bankrupt any investment in new coal power plants. I think that is just the start. BTW Obama’s State, Illinois, has a significant coal mining industry. Cross Posted at Power and Control

Erica Jong predicts that if Obama loses there will be a second civil war in America. One wag at the site linked (Hot Air) had this to say: If Obama loses it will spark the second American Civil War. Blood will run in the streets, believe me. The sad part is that this is starting…

Via a comment at HillBuzz comes a link to audio of a Republican Operative who says some pretty outrageous things about the state of the election. Things like McCain is way ahead in Pennsylvania. And that McCain has a chance in California. Who could believe it? Here are the numbers the operative gives according to…

HillBuzz has this to say about their Halloween Report. Halloween costumes are a reflection of the zeitgeist in that moment — Palin and McCain were the costumes on people’s minds, because they are who are in the pop culture’s imagination right now. The ticket that is best represented in Halloween costumes in an election year…

Rick Nebel of EMC2 explains what the recent flurry of contracts from the Navy (New IEC Fusion Experiment Contract) was all about. This isn’t a big deal. This is small, interim funding. It’s called staying alive until they make a decision. At least they are going to be able to keep the team together until…

This is a follow up to my post Cult of Personality. The best antidote to these techniques is to read and analyze the speeches. Bring your rational mind to bear. You might also be interested in this speech by another master of the technique that has themes similar to an Obama speech. H/T the comments…

The last day or so I have been looking at the The Mass Psychology of Fascism and how to Escape from Freedom. Not the books. Stuff on the net. Let me start with Ali Sina’s discussion of the cult of personality. There are other disturbing similarities. Like Hitler and Khomeini, Obama also likes to create…

Since we love rumors around here let me pass on another one. According to The Obama File a tape in which Michelle Obama is castigating racists for working for the defeat of her husband will air on FOX some time in the next few days (given the typical election calculations it will be out some…

The Register UK is looking at how Greenpeace views fusion. Greenpeace is suspicious. Yes they are. The (Joint European Torus) JET reactor in Culham, Oxfordshire was completed 25 years ago, and work is underway on ITER in Cadarache, France, a €10bn facility, backed by six countries (including China) plus the EU. The Czech Republic has…

FedBizOpps.gov has a solicitation for a bid for more experiments by EMC2, Doc Bussard’s company now being run (at least on the experimental side) by Rick Nebel. The Naval Air Warfare Center, Weapons Division, China Lake, CA intends to procure on an other than full and open competition basis a service to provide: 1) Research…

Kim Priestap reports on early voting in Florida. Democrats seem to have a big advantage in turnout. Democrats are beaming that their party is outperforming the Republicans in early voting, releasing numbers Wednesday that show registrants of their party ahead 54 percent to 30 percent among the 1.4 million voters who have gone to the…

From the comments at HillBuzz Sara P speaks Ok, I want to clear my conscious a little. Hopefully you could make a blog post to help some fellow clinton supporters out. I work for a campaign and can’t wait for this week to be over. I was doing it for a job. I was not…

HillBuzz needs your help with their get out the vote effort for McCain/Palin. We need to ask for your help. We’re putting together a canvassing trip into Ohio this coming weekend to bring what we hope will be about 70 DeMcCrats for McCain and Young Republican supporters into Ohio to canvass for McCain/Palin in the…

The Wall Street Journal has a memo from the McCain Campaign. Let me just give one highlight that touches on something I wrote about yesterday: The PUMA Question. * We are beginning to once again get over a 20% chunk of the vote among soft Democrats. Importantly as well, our long identified target of “Walmart…

In the comments on my post A Funny Thing Happened In The Voting Booth commenter Dr. Nobel Dynamite made the following point. “Not to mention the PUMA factor.” [that was me – ed.] You need to turn off the propaganda for a while, my friend. Just because Neil Cavuto trots out a cigarette hag that…

Howard Stern goes to Harlem and asks some man on the street questions. You have to wonder why the Shrinking Media can’t do stuff like this. Did I mention that the Christian Science Monitor is going weekly and the LA Times is laying off 75 more? And that there is a general circulation decline? H/T…

Red State has an interesting anecdote about some Democrats who got together to vote early. Yesterday, I heard a great story from a friend who describes herself as a “Legacy Democrat” she says that everyone in her family has been a registered Democrat as far back as she can remember – parents, grandparents, great-grandparents… you…

Yep. White people are messing up the election. But there is a fix for that. Don’t allow them to vote. As a lifelong Caucasian, I am beginning to think the time has finally come to take the right to vote away from white people, at least until we come to our senses. Seriously, I just…