Every Election Day since November 2004, with an occasional exception, I’ve worked with the Committee of Seventy, a more than century-old political oversight nonprofit in Philadelphia.
I always come away with stories.
As I did in last April’s primary, below, I’ll share some of the best from last Tuesday’s election, a relatively low-profile affair, including just a [...]

It will be an event I will tell my children about. John McCain wasn’t running as John McCain.
Unfairly, unjustly untruly or not, it seemed the media – particularly in Europe, from my experience – wanted Barack Obama in the office.
He has been anointed as part of a great achievement of American freedom. As a supporter [...]

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Gee, all you had to do was check out this site.

Hat tip Neal

The Barack Obama presidential campaign’s focus on Pennsylvania is “unprecedented” Gov. Ed Rendell said in a news conference call I listened in on during this my first day with the Allentown Morning Call for my post-graduate internship with the Pennsylvania Legislative Correspondents’ Association.
Rendell was a noted booster for Obama’s primary opponent Hillary Clinton, but long [...]

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Oh, today is the much hyped Pennsylvania primary.
If you’re registered in Philadelphia and need to know where you’re voting, using the Committee of Seventy’s Citizen Access Center. Oh, and if you’re an Independent or Republican and feeling bummed out ’cause everyone is talking Obama/Hillary, fear not, in Philadelphia, there are also two ballot questions that [...]

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I’ll say it.
I read a really on-point, interesting column in, seriously, the New York Times. ..I have joined semi-literate whites everywhere.
David Brooks took on Sen. Barack Obama, how the man had been raised on high as the messiah of U.S. politics and is now struggling with those unfair expectations.
See, Republicans are more known for quick [...]

Because of the power of the United States, everyone is interested in our electoral process. Fortunately, someone finally created an easy-to-follow description of the process for viewers around the world.
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I maintain that I broke the McCain girls debut video. So, while I am late this time, I totally feel justified displaying this nonsense here now. Could this be viral advertising? It doesn’t seem like something in which the Republicans would involve themselves.
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