Archive for 'Biden'
Appealing to the Average Person
Most of the Electionstocks Staff watched the VP Debate Thursday Night on CNN so that we could watch the focus group of undecided Ohio voters respond to statements made by the candidates.
One key thing to note would be Sarah Palin’s attempts to connect with the common person. She generally excelled in this area, as the [...]
Posted: October 6th, 2008 under Biden, Uncategorized.
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Playing Politics with the Sub-Prime Crisis
John McCain released a statement today announcing that Friday’s debate ought to be postponed in order to better deal with the economic crisis of this past week. The gut reaction by many is that he is simply playing good political strategy. Obama is widely considered to be better economically than McCain and surely he would [...]
Posted: September 24th, 2008 under Biden, Economy, Infrastructure, McCain, Obama, Uncategorized.
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Is the Bad Economic News Good for Obama?
Not exactly. While McCain made the unfortunate comment that “the fundamentals economy are strong.” Obama needs to put forth an actual plan for that change he will bring.
Biden put in his two cents worth while campaigning near Detroit:
“Ladies and gentlemen, I could walk from here to Lansing, and I wouldn’t run into a [...]
Posted: September 16th, 2008 under Biden, Economy, McCain, Obama.
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Quick Guide to Joe Biden
Here is a short list of essential pros and cons to VP pick Joe Biden.
For more in depth analysis we recommend the following articles:
On The Biden VP Pick
Biden’s plagiarism should not be forgotten
The Case for Joe Biden
The Downside to Joe Biden
How Biden Helps Obama
Posted: August 25th, 2008 under Biden, Uncategorized.
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Biden is Obama’s VP
I just received the official text message from Barack Obama confirming Biden as his VP. An awfully strange time to send it out, of course, but you heard it first from Election Stocks.
To give you an insight on the Obama camp’s VP choice, here’s the case for Joe Biden.
Posted: August 23rd, 2008 under Biden, Obama, Uncategorized.
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Biden as a Possible VP Choice
Biden was never a frontrunner in the 2008 Election, but he was always considered as a favorite VP choice (along with Bill Richardson). It seems, however, that if Barack chooses Biden as VP, quite a few things he said back in his presidential bid would come back to haunt him. Most notably:
“The only guy on [...]
Posted: August 20th, 2008 under Biden, McCain, Obama, Uncategorized.
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Peak Oil and Politics
James Pethokoukis wonders on the Capital Commerce Blog from US News “Are Democrats the Peak-Oil Party?”
What’s Peak Oil all about? Matthew Simmons will tell you.
Pethokoukis quotes from Joe Biden at the NH Debate:
“We have to understand how weak [Iran] is,” explained Sen. Joe Biden last month at the Democratic presidential debate in Nashua, N.H. [...]
Posted: July 30th, 2007 under Biden, Clinton, Energy, Oil, Petroleum, Uncategorized.
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No Child Left Behind. Oh Really?
While we’ve already had five different posts about the Democratic debate the other day, bear with us one more time to revisit it to pick out a little talked about issue (at least in the debates): education. There was only one question about education in the debate and it dealt with the No Child Left [...]
Posted: July 25th, 2007 under Biden, Construction, Education.
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The Freakin’ YouTube Debate
CNN in correlation with YouTube put together one of the most diabolically bad formats for a debate that we have seen in our lives. Off the bat, the YouTube debate was a terrible idea because it uses YouTube, a video uploading site notorious for its terrible image and sound quality. Almost all the submitted videos [...]
Posted: July 24th, 2007 under Biden, Clinton, Obama, Uncategorized.
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Link Sandwich – 7/24
All news today is on yesterday’s YouTube debate, it’s the thing to talk about.
Fred Barnes of The Daily Standard says that Hillary Outflanked Obama last night.
The Washington Post claims that the voice of the public added an edge to the debate.
Top of the Ticket has a well put together commentary on The YouTube Debate.
Of course [...]
Posted: July 24th, 2007 under Biden, Clinton, Obama, Uncategorized.
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