Sunday, 29 April 2012
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
Monday, 16 April 2012
Wednesday, 11 April 2012
Tuesday, 10 April 2012
2012 U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, PARTY NOMINATION ROUND
2012 DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY
Due to there being no serious challenge from a candidate within the Democratic Party, Barack Obama’s nomination as that party’s candidate for president is all but official. With this known, Obama has clinched a first-round bye and will face the Republican Candidate in the General Election to take place on 6 November 2012.
2012 REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY
GOP NOMINATION 2012 | DELEGATES MAGIC # 1144 | VOTES (%) | RECORD |
ROMNEY | 640 | 40.13 | 21-12 |
GINGRICH | 160 | 20.26 | 2-31 |
PAUL | 77 | 10.29 | 0-33 |
E- SANTORUM | 264 | 27.23 | 10-23 |
E- PERRY | 3 | 0.46 | 0-2 |
E- HUNTSMAN | 2 | 0.66 | 0-2 |
E- BACHMANN | 0 | 0.24 | 0-1 |
E- ROEMER | 0 | 0.13 | 0-22 |
E- CAIN | 0 | 0.10 | |
E- JOHNSON | 0 | 0.03 | |
E- KARGER | 0 | 0.03 | 0-33 |
E- Eliminated from playoff contention.
When it comes to the number of delegates, I was using the NY Times tracker. However, after much MORE research and determination, I switched over to a combination between Real Clear Politics, CNN, NY Times, and The Green Papers.
Daily Kos explains why the GOP Delegate count is inconsistent among the different reporting agencies. Of course… THAT explains it.
Thursday, 5 April 2012
LETTERMAN/OLBERMANN
On The Late Show with David Letterman, host David Letterman interviewed Keith Olbermann on his recent release from the cable channel Current TV.
Wednesday, 4 April 2012
FULL DISCLOSURE
In the interest of transparency, I recently made the following monetary contributions to the following:
CANDIDATES
ORGANIZATIONS
I don’t make that much money, so I gave what I could. These are organizations and candidates that I have a passion for.
Yes, some are out of Texas, but I feel that we need the more of the following voices in our government institutions: we need more Women; we need more Veterans; we need more voices for LGBT Rights. And in some cases these voices overlap each other.
And of course… re-elect President Obama and get more Democrats in office.
Now why am I disclosing who I gave money to?
Without going into depth about it, the case declared certain campaign finance reform laws unconstitutional, declared that money is speech, and unleashed unlimited monetary funds into our political processes.
As I stated before, I am at a severe financial disadvantage compared to those that write big money checks to campaigns. Does that give those that have more money more rights than others?
All of our rights are inalienably endowed by our creator, not by the size of one’s bank accounts or how much property they own or how many people are on their payroll.
This is still the United States of America where the first three words to our governing document, the United States Constitution, is “We, The,” and probably the most important word: “PEOPLE.”
This country is still about its people… and that is ALL of the people.
Despite what the Supreme Court ruled in their 5-4 decision back in January 2010, this is still a government for the people, by the people, and of the people.
And no amount of money will change that.
