330 - From Pickin’ Cotton to Pickin’ Presidents « Strange Maps
The link between these two maps is not causal, but correlational, and the correlation is African-Americans. Once they were the slaves on whom the cotton economy had to rely for harvesting. Despite an outward migration towards the Northern cities, their settlement pattern now still closely corresponds to that of those days.
During the Democratic primary, many African-American voters supported Hillary Clinton, thinking it unlikely Barack Obama would win the nomination, let alone the presidency. When it became apparent that Obama had a good shot at the nomination (and thereafter at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue itself), their support for Obama became near monolithic. As it turns out, president-elect Obama won with the an overall support of 53%, but that includes over 90% of black voters (1).
330 - From Pickin’ Cotton to Pickin’ Presidents « Strange Maps
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Amelie, Jr. - Boing Boing
Once upon a time… from Capucha on Vimeo.
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Obama’s Dressed-Down Look: ‘The Dorky Dad’? (SLIDESHOW)
Unless BHO is headed to work at Target, there is no reason to wear a red shirt with khakis.
More on Barack Obama
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Patrick Moberg Obama Tribute
november-4-2008.jpg (JPEG Image, 1440×847 pixels) - Scaled (98%)
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Ten Ways the World Will End
The universe is trying to kill us. In Death From the Skies! our own Bad Astronomer, Phil Plait, counts the ways the world will end. Start worrying in a few million years about a cosmic dust collision, when the sun hits the closest spiral arm of our galaxy. Take your chances with an exploding star. Or manage to escape these threats, and you just get an extra 1035 years before all matter decays anyway.
Ten Ways the World Will End | Natural Disasters | DISCOVER Magazine
- Asteroid Impact
- Solar Flare
- Supernova
- Gamma-Ray Burst
- Black Hole
- Alien Attack
- Death of the Sun
- Galactic Doom
- Death of the Universe
Click on the link to see explanations.
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J Humphrey Design Video
Little J’s video from last week’s GG:
YouTube - Gossip Girl - Music Video
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Obamas’ SS Codenames
Rosebud?
Barack Obama (President-elect) - Renegade
Michelle Obama - Renaissance
Malia Obama - Radiance
Sasha Obama - Rosebud
Secret Service codename - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Obama Speaks With 9 World Leaders
And on her…
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“Fox & Friends” Host Steve Doocy Falsely Identifies Barack Obama At Polling Place, Says Of Black Man: “There He Is!”
“Fox & Friends” host Steve Doocy falsely identified Barack Obama while waiting for the Democratic nominee to emerge at his polling place in Chicago Tuesday morning.”There he is, he just walked in,” Doocy said, as the image of a casually dressed, random black man appeared across the screen. “That’s a picture, the back of his head, into the gymnasium to cast his vote. I think we know who he’s gonna be voting for.”
This entry was written by , posted on November 4, 2008 at 12:02 pm, filed under Uncategorized and tagged Funny HaHa, politics. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
My Ballot
I was one of the first in line at the polling place in West Hollywood. Here is what my ballot basically looks like. I used the sample ballot from the lavote.net website.
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