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Posts tagged obama
Ron Howard, Henry Winkler and Andy Griffith endorse Obama
Oct 24th
See more Ron Howard videos at Funny or Die
Conservatives endorsing Obama
Oct 18th
Well, it’s not quite a tidal wave, but here’s a quick rundown of current and former conservatives and publications (along with their bonafide conservative credentials) who have endorsed Obama:
- Christopher Buckley, son of William F. Buckley (found of National Review) & part-owner and (now former) columnist for National Review (endorsed Bush in 2000, 2004) [October 10, 2008]
- Andrew Sullivan, former editor of New Republic (endorsed Bush in 2000, Kerry in 2004) [some time in 2007, he also endorsed Ron Paul]
- Christopher Hitchens neo-conservative (endorsed Bush in 2000, 2004) [October 13, 2008]
- Chicago Tribune (has NEVER endorsed a Democrat) [October 17, 2008]
- Larry Hunter [July 16, 2008]
- Michael Smerconish [October 17, 2008]
There are others here.
Watching the election
Oct 2nd
I view all the polls and election results by consulting this site. I also have a status bar indicator of the current electoral vote for firefox. I trust the tally from renouned computer scientist, Andrew S. Tanenbaum, who runs the site and puts together the polls into a nice map.
Here’s the Tanenbaum image (live, changes without my help):
Here’s a hardcore republican image (also live):
