Showing posts with label Election. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Election. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 06, 2011

Hillsdale, MO Police use force to keep L.K. Wood campaign workers out of their town

Volunteers for L.K. "Chip" Wood placed campaign signs outside of the St. Louis County polling place in Hillsdale, MO, the night before the County's election for Assessor. When the workers returned the next day, they found the signs had been removed. The signs were replaced and removed again. When the campaign worker returned a third time, a man in the area said: "you can't put that sign there!" The worker asked why not and the man after some hesitation said "your candidate won't win in this area." Since the incident involved theft of the signs, the Wood's volunteer took a picture of the area including a man who may have taken the signs. Very shortly after this incident, police confronted the campaign worker and demanded he leave the area. One of the officers explained that if the volunteer returned, things would not turn out as well.

Saturday, November 22, 2008

How Obama got Elected



John Zogby was recently commissioned to do a poll of Obama supporters. For more information see http://www.howobamagotelected.com/. Above you can see how people answered the questions. Below, you can see the results of the


Zogby Poll:

512 Obama Voters 11/13/08-11/15/08 MOE +/- 4.4 points
97.1% High School Graduate or higher, 55% College Graduates
Results to 12 simple Multiple Choice Questions
57.4% could NOT correctly say which party controls congress (50/50 shot just by guessing)
71.8% could NOT correctly say Joe Biden quit a previous campaign because of plagiarism (25% chance by guessing)
82.6% could NOT correctly say that Barack Obama won his first election by getting opponents kicked off the ballot (25% chance by guessing)
88.4% could NOT correctly say that Obama said his policies would likely bankrupt the coal industry and make energy rates skyrocket (25% chance by guessing)
56.1% could NOT correctly say Obama started his political career at the home of two former members of the Weather Underground (25% chance by guessing).
And yet.....
Only 13.7% failed to identify Sarah Palin as the person on which their party spent $150,000 in clothes
Only 6.2% failed to identify Palin as the one with a pregnant teenage daughter
And 86.9 % thought that Palin said that she could see Russia from her "house," even though that was Tina Fey who said that!!
Only 2.4% got at least 11 correct.
Only .5% got all of them correct. (And we "gave" one answer that was technically not Palin, but actually Tina Fey)