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I know we’re still nearly 2 years out, so I’m going to try not to burn out here, but this video is quite good.

Tags: mccain

I found this amazing blurb in the latest issue of The Atlantic:

"… rich people in poor states are much more likely to vote Republican than rich people in well-off states… as a state’s average income rises, the correlation between being wealthy and voting Republican disappears. In Connecticut, for example, there is almost no connection between income and voting behavior: both the poor and the rich tend to vote for Democratic candidates."

Maybe it’s just me that finds that a bit amazing, but I think it says a lot about the platforms of the two major parties.

Here’s how I voted:

• Governor – Becky Lourey
• US Senate – Amy Klobuchar
• US House – Keith Ellison
• MN Attorney General – Steve Kelley
• MN Secretary of State – Mark Ritchie
• MN Senate District 62 – Patricia Torres Ray

Now it’s on to november!

Hutchinson outlines health care plan:

Independence Party gubernatorial candidate Peter Hutchinson and his physician running mate called Friday for mandatory medical insurance and a statewide indoor workplace smoking ban as part of a broad health care reform plan they said could save Minnesotans $7 billion a year.

I know you all thought I was a flaming liberal, but I’m voting Independent for Governor this year.

How high gas prices make politicians stupid. By Jacob Weisberg

Sustained high prices will bring about behavioral and political changes: energy conservation, public transportation, less exurban sprawl, and eventually the economic viability of alternative fuel sources such as biomass, fuel cells, wind, and solar power, which may one day undermine the power of the oil oligarchs. Are politicians too stupid to understand this, or just smart enough not to say it aloud?

The last time I picked my horse early in the game, it didn’t work out so well, (I still believe he has the right answers though!) This time around, I’m hoping for a change of fortune.

This will probably be the first of many links you will have to endure on the subject…

Peter Hutchinson: Memo to Tim Pawlenty Re: State of the State 

Everyone has those favorite examples of ‘your tax dollars at work’. Those silly little things that our elected officials find time to do when they should be figuring out other things. Such as:

• The war in Iraq
• The environment
• The budget

Well, here’s my favorite new example. It’s barney cam (realplayer). Oh my goodness. Watch this video, and think of all the people that took time to participate in this foolishness.

Seriously, they probably sat down to storyboard that thing out! There are about 15 different people in the first 2 minutes! Who has time for this? Who has time to blog about this 😉 (it only took 2 minutes to type this out, I promise)