YouTube – A Poem For The Youth Voter
Yes. We. Did.
The Web is a wonder. Here’s a GOTV video addressed to the youngsters who might get complacent and stay home “on the sofa, watchin’ Oprah” instead of voting.
[PSA]
Go vote, if there’s early voting in your precinct. Last thing you want is for something to come up on election day — broken down car, boss wanting you to work late, food poisoning — and miss voting.
Vote now.
Map of Newspaper Endorsements for 2008 US Election
Blue/Red, depending on whether the Democrat or Republican candidate earned the endorsement.
Size of circle indicates circulation size. If the circle’s perimeter is a darker shade, it means the newspaper endorsed the “other” party’s candidate in 2004.
Interesting visual.
“And it seems that the worse McCain is doing in the polls, the more his team is relying on the same gutter tactics. So over the next 15 days, look for the McCain campaign to become even uglier. That’s what happens when following Rovian politics is your only strategy — and Rovian politics isn’t working.”
Happy to be out of it. Glad my vote is winging its way to City Hall.
We had
(1) the Presidential election to vote on
(2) The US House of Reps (Cindy Sheehan or Nancy Pelosi? Hm.)
(3) Our local state assembly critter
(4) Our school board.
(5) Our college board.
(6) Our District 3 Supervisor to replace Aaron Peskin. (Nine candidates running. Ranked voting returns.)
(7) Superior Court judge
(8) Twelve state propositions, including Proposition 8.
VOTE NO ON PROPOSITION 8!
(9) City-wide measures A-V (that would be um. a-b-c-d-…twenty-two city-wide measures) including Measure R (“Renaming the Oceanside Water Treatment Plant to the George W Bush Sewage Plant” Sophomoric? You betcha!) and Measure V. (“Policy Against Terminating Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (JROTC) Programs in Public High Schools” … Shall it be City policy to encourage the School Board to reverse its decision to terminate JROTC and to continue to offer JROTC in San Francisco public high schools?) and Measure E (“Changing the Number of Signatures Required to Recall City Officials”) and Measure K (“Shall the City: stop enforcing laws against prostitution; stop funding or supporting the First Offender Prostitution Program or any similar anti-prostitution program; enforce existing criminal laws that prohibit crimes such as battery, extortion and rape, regardless of the victim’s status as a sex worker; and fully disclose the investigation and prosecution of violent crimes against sex workers?”)
Have I mentioned I think twelve state-wide propositions and twenty-two City measures seem to be public policy run amok? More thoughts on this in a later post.
SPUR VOTER GUIDE November 2008
I may not always agree with SPUR’s election picks, but they are thoughtful picks and the reasoning behind them is laid out for all to see.
Haven’t voted in the California and San Francisco elections yet? Check out the SPUR guide.
… and vote NO on Prop 8.
[SPUR doesn't give you an opinion on Prop 8. If the folks working on the Voter Guide decisions can't all wholeheartedly support one position, they don't cover that proposition.]
Obama ’08 – Vote For Hope from MC Yogi on Vimeo.
This is the first presidential election with YouTube videos prepared by passionate supporters on both sides, the first presidential election with political blogs and political Web sites setup and maintained by supporters, the first presidential election that will be influenced, at times greatly, by the Web.
Sit back. Watch.
Another interesting map. This one shows the red/blue states with the state size distorted to reflect the state’s number of electoral votes.
Princeton Election Consortium, from whence this map comes, is another Election2008 Web site filled with tasty nuggets of data.
Brilliant Web site.
Click on one of ten choices and you’ll get “three things” you should know about John McCain and, f’rex, “Rural Issues” with votes and references.
Followed by “John McCain: Out of Touch with Rural Issues. Fortunately there’s hope. See how Barack Obama and Joe Biden stand on these issues.”
Click that last sentence and you wing off to Barack Obama’s site and his positions on rural issues.
Brilliant.
Excellent vid — chock full o’ celebrities — for www.declareyourself.com and a plea to us’ns and thems to REGISTER TO VOTE.
Some voter registration deadlines are tomorrow! October 4th! and if you aren’t registered to vote by then, you can’t vote in the upcoming elections!
Some um. language makes this an only-on-the-Web phenom.
Well done.
Are you registered to vote? If not, and you are eligible and if you even just maybe kinda think that come next month you may be wanting to vote, register now! Watch the vid (or not), and hie over to www.declareyourself.com.
If you aren’t sure if you are already registered, check here. If you didn’t vote in the last presidential election or any election since, you are almost most certainly no longer registered to vote. That’s the way it works. Don’t vote in a presidential? Off the rolls. Haven’t re-registered and voted since? You’re still off the rolls. Have you moved since you registered? You need to re-register.
Register. Now.
(And all that bilge that the only resource used to call people for jury duty is the voter rolls so if you don’t want to be called for jury duty, you shouldn’t vote? Not so. California uses the drivers license registry and other resources. The bilge that you can’t register to vote where you are if you’re a student from somewhere else? That’s bilge as well. Register. Vote.)
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