From IowaPolitics.com:
McCain campaign: Governor Palin is returning to Iowa 10/31/2008 Join us for a Road to Victory Rally with Governor Sarah Palin Monday, November 3, 2008 Grand River Center 500 Bell Street Dubuque, IA 52001 Doors open at Noon Program begins at 2 p.m. If you have questions or concerns please call the Iowa McCain-Palin Hotline: (515) 418-9322 Tickets are free and can be picked up at the following locations during the following times:[...]
BlogRush, a free service that provided a means to network out blog postings to other sites with similar topics, has shut down.
John Reese started the service to helps sites like ours get more traffic. Although we certainly did see a small increase in traffic, our interest in the service here at TCR was in providing easy access for our readers to other resources on the internet that spoke to political topics.
While we certainly have other channels that provide access to the world of political debate, we're disappointed to see John shut down BlogRush. He did not make any money at it, and wasn't focused on that as much as providing a quality service. Evidently, the reasons for shutting down the service (found here) were related to issues[...]
Early state-by-state voting numbers are available at this link. For Iowa, we have already had nearly 340,000 votes cast this year. In 2004, there were a total of 1,521,966 votes cast, which means we've already seen over 20% of the 2004 total voting in the early polls! That is awesome, and again speaks to the likelihood that the numbers will likely be even higher than 2004 when the dust settles.
Out of the early numbers, registered Democrats make up 48.9% of the votes, and registered Republicans make up 28.5 (the 22.7% are independent). That does NOT mean that Obama has 49% of the vote in the early polls!
There was TV ad put together by some Hollywood heavyweights that, regardless of the political leanings they may espouse, delivers a message we should all support: every vote counts. Don't let yourself be[...]
...the Sister Toldjah Review of the Barack Obama Infomercial! The best part is, she absolutely nailed it with this:
He lost me at hello.So what did the big Obama Event have in common with most other 30 minute infomercials?
This year, the US Senate seat currently held by Tom Harkin is up for grabs. I say "up for grabs" in an attempt to relieve us of the idea that the incumbent has no chance to be unseated.
Harkin has been in the US Senate now for 6 terms (24 years). Without a doubt, he has done some good things while in Congress. Probably the most positive, and the one he speaks of the most, is his authoring of the Americans with Disabilities Act. He has also been a big supporter of farmers and Iowa's universities.
Harkin is also known in the state, like Neil Smith[...]
