Let’s look at the Georgia results and see how Obama turned a 16.6% defeat of Kerry in 2004 to a 5.2% loss this time.
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I am volunteering for the Obama campaign on election day and will be liveblogging all day (and night).
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Georgia has been reliably Republican for a while now. But this election is different. There’s a 1 in 3 (or more) chance that Obama might win tomorrow.
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Gasoline prices burned a hole in the wallets of most Americans over the summer, and McCain attempted to use this problem against Obama by highlighting Democratic support for an offshore drilling moratorium. McCain’s, “Drill baby, drill,” refrain sloshed bold and…
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A fun day in Chattanooga to celebrate Michelle’s fourth birthday. Here are some photographs from the Tennessee aquarium and Tennessee river gorge.
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There are so many sites predicting the results of the Presidential, Senate and House elections, some using statistical techniques, others their intuition. Here are some of my favorites.
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I watched the debate between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden at 37,000 feet over the Atlantic Ocean and a day late. I think Biden was the clear winner, though Palin didn’t do as bad as was expected considering her interview…
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Let’s take a look at opinion polls about torture. Who supports torture? Which groups are for or against torture? Why isn’t the Bush administration’s pro-torture conduct an issue in the election?
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I am liveblogging the first Presidential debate between Senator Obama and Senator McCain. It was supposed to be about foreign policy and national security, but there have been questions about the fiscal crisis.
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My HOA has told me to remove an Obama yard sign. I need some help in deciding what to do.
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This is one of the better superhero movies with a sterling performance by Heath Ledger as the Joker.
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It’s been a lot of fun volunteering for the Obama campaign. We have registered voters, made phone calls and gone door to door for voter canvassing.
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We went to Pine Mountain, GA for the Independence Day weekend. There are some photos from Callaway Gardens and the Wild Animal Safari there.
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I support Senator Obama for President because he’s better on the issues and would bring out much needed change of direction for our country.
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Twin suicide bombings in the city of my birth have affected me a lot more than I thought possible. 63 dead according to latest reports.
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A movie about a future Earth full of garbage and an idiosyncratic robot named Wall-E who falls in love.
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An alternate history novel about an America in which the union didn’t happen and states are independent.
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A murder mystery set in an alternate history where Britain made peace with Nazi Germany and the US never entered the war, this is a good, fun novel.
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We watched the first three movies again before watching the latest Indiana Jones movie and enjoyed all of them.
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If you are a US citizen and are not registered to vote, then you should register at the earliest.
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Iron Man is a decent superhero movie, worth watching, though it’s no Spider Man or Batman Begins.
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It is a Martin Scorsese crime movie. What more can I say to get you to watch it?
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We went to the beach on memorial day weekend where we had a lot of fun and ate lots of great seafood.
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The Kid was frightened at some of the fight scenes but was otherwise engrossed in this movie.
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As parents, we decided that we needed to write a will to decide who we wanted to be guardians for our child and how we wanted our estate distributed. The Islamic laws were not what we wanted.
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This first novel by John Scalzi is a gripping story of a 75 year old who joins the colonial army to help humans colonize space.
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This is a treasure hunt movie involving the Declaration of Independence. I rate it 4/10.
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As is usual, I am finally posting some photographs from the Christmas holidays now.
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It’s a classic and seems strangely poignant these days when we are all reading about insurgencies and counterinsurgency.
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They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. But copying whole articles without citation is not.
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Juno is a high school girl who becomes pregnant. This is a comedy about that and is a fun watch.
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Rendition and torture have been official US policy since September 11, 2001. How can we find out all the abuses of the Bush administration and end these crimes?
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While a GPS receiver doesn’t compare to a wife, it’s probably better for navigation purposes.
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Law enforcements and government give the best of reasons for new laws on surveillance and powers for law enforcement. But they are always used for trivial or the worst of reasons too.
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This is a good movie set during the oil boom in California in the early 20th century.
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We visited the Atlanta Zoo recently. Here are some photographs from that visit.
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Monty Python are great in this comedy about Brian, whose life follows that of Jesus in some ways.
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Yusuf Raza Gillani has been elected Prime Minister of Pakistan. Here is some news and analysis on his election.
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This was our 3 year old’s first movie at the theater. So we had to choose something she would like and Enchanted was a good movie.
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Aitzaz Ahsan has declared this week to be Black Flag Week to protest for the restoration of the Pakistani judiciary. Let’s all take part in this week.
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Aliens is a sequel to Alien. Watching these old movies again is fun. Both Alien and Aliens are great but the later sequels not so much.
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I decided to build my own desktop again after my Dell laptop troubles. Finding everything at Fry’s was easy and assembling it was fun.
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The movie starts off good but the ending is not fun at all. The book on which it is based has a much better ending. I rate it 6/10.
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Musharraf’s allies lose big in Pakistan but the Bush administration is still pro-Musharraf. A coalition government of PPP and PML-N is in the offing.
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Pakistan is having elections today. Violence has taken its toll though in dampening any enthusiasm. There are also worries about rigging.
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This is an academic book looking in detail at the history of Rwanda and its neighbors and how that led to the 1994 genocide. Despite being difficult to read due to dry writing, I recommend it highly.
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Alien is a good science fiction/horror movie from when I was growing up. It was fun to watch it again.
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Today is Super Tuesday with lots of primaries and caucuses. We urge everyone to vote for Barack Obama.
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An anthology of non-fiction stories of courtship and dating by American Muslim women is being put together by Baraka. Go visit her blog for submission information.
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I count the reasons why I won’t raise my daughter in Pakistan. The attitudes of Pakistanis towards women leave a lot to be desired and women don’t have much opportunity there.
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