Posts Tagged ‘new-hampshire’

That Hopey Changey thing: Eliminating filibusters

January 24th, 2013 | No Comments

Within one day after President Obama was sworn in for his second term, Harry Reid was putting in motion the vote to eliminate most filibusters. Here is the list of the Senators that think this is such a good idea they chose to co-sponsor it: Sen Baldwin, Tammy [WI] – 1/22/2013 Sen Begich, Mark [AK] [...]

Bipartisanship and Medicaid

February 23rd, 2009 | 1 Comment

Just got the numbers for the Medicaid add-on from the stimulus package.  I don’t deal with Medicaid directly, but it indirectly affects what I do in a large way.  As such, I was interested in the numbers.  However, the bigger picture bugged me more than the dollars I was assigned to look at.  In essence, [...]

Sore Losers?

January 11th, 2008 | 1 Comment

Dennis Kucinich, who came in pretty much dead last with less than 2% of the vote in New Hampshire, is demanding a recount. Kucinich alluded to online reports alleging disparities around the state between hand-counted ballots, which tended to favor Sen. Barack Obama, and machine-counted ones that tended to favor Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. He [...]

Crunch time, round two

January 6th, 2008 | No Comments

Lost in the debates last night, as well as the sports all over the networks, is the fact there was yet another caucus.  Mitt Romney won Wyoming.  This barely merited a blurb on Fox and not much more than that anywhere else.  Unlike Iowa, this one wasn’t close.  Romney got 67% of the vote, Thompson [...]

Crunch time for the candidates?

December 27th, 2007 | 14 Comments

A lot is being made of the Iowa and New Hampshire caucuses.  Now we’re facing “crunch time“.  Let’s look at a little history, shall we? Here’s Iowa’s history of caucus voting: Democrats January 19, 2004 – John Kerry (38%), John Edwards (32%), Howard Dean (18%), Richard Gephardt (11%) and Dennis Kucinich (1%) January 24, 2000 [...]