Here is a very enlightening video featuring footage gathered for an upcoming documentary on how the media impacted the 2008 election. Check out the details at HowObamaGotElected.com
When you couple the mainstream media’s criminally negligent reporting of facts with the American citizenry’s willful ignorance of history and basic civics, we get the American Idol presidency of Barack Obama.
The Obama voters that I have spoken with fall into two categories: 1) Those who have no idea where he stands on any issue. 2) Those who understand his ideaology but think he will be unable to pass any of his “more dangerous” ideas. There is no category three for those who agree with Obama on his ideaology because I don’t know any socialists. I guess I need to get out more.
The Republican Party of Iowa is helping recruit volunteers to monitor Minnesota’s looming senate recount on behalf of Sen. Norm Coleman’s campaign. “Vounteers urgently needed!” reads the heading on an email sent out by the state party yesterday. The Iowa GOP is seeking two-week commitments from individuals beginning on Monday.
The recount is slated to start on Wednesday. There are expected to be roughly 120 locations across the state where ballots will be manually inspected by local election officials to determine which candidate voters intended to support. Authorized representatives from the campaigns of Coleman and Al Franken will have the ability to challenge any decisions that they deem questionable.
The Franken campaign is assembling its own team of recount observers. According to spokeswoman Colleen Murray, they have lined up more than 1,000 volunteers to help monitor the process, including 250 attorneys.
Republicans in the Iowa Senate are likely to consider new leadership in the wake of an election that again shrank their numbers.
The share of Republican seats has slipped each election since 2000, dropping from 30 to 29 to 25 to 20 to 18.
Iowa House Republicans meet Monday, and “we’ll be watching them,” said Sen. David Johnson, a Republican from Ocheyedan who supports Wieck.House Republican leader Christopher Rants of Sioux City also faces a challenge from one of his closest advisers, Kraig Paulsen, a Republican from Hiawatha.
House Republicans have seen their numbers shrink from 56 to 54 to 51 to 47 to 44 since 2000.
