I’ve loved electoral politics since the third grade when my siblings and I were forced to watch Peter Jennings, and each of the presidential debates. And, for me, politics has a cyclical relationship with math – because my understanding of math feeds my political intrigue, and my political calculations are steeped in percentages, equations, and marginal benefits.
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WHAT: On Tuesday morning, I picked up a color printout of a 26-page report by Complete Story...

Two days ago, I voted. Wednesday, October the 15th, 2008 will be a day that I remember for many years.
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NEVERMIND ALL THAT TALK of the BRADLEY EFFECT

I am not denying that there will be some voters who won’t vote for Obama because of race. But they’ll be more than outweighed by the following factors:

33 minutes in, there is a pitbull in tonight\'s debate, hosted by Gwen Ifill. And that pitbull is on the Democratic ticket.
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PROLOGUE
Too often, the Democrats allow the Republicans to dictate the issues and perimeter of public discourse. Look to the absurd excuse-making done in the two weeks prior to Obama’s acceptance speech before 84,000 at the Mile High Stadium in Denver.
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Rarely do I agree with Thomas Friedman – New York Times Opinion writer, who got rich off of the late-‘90s bible and free-trade proclamation “The Lexus and the Olive Tree”. But, as I read today’s tirade against the political-symbolic-environmental significance of Alaska Gov.
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Prior to the Second Night of the DNC at the Pepsi Center, I met Ernestine Weaver -- a delegate from Forest City, Arkansas -- who has attended Democratic Conventions since 1980. Though she was designated a Clinton delegate based on Arkansas' primary results, Ms.
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It sucks when the A/V and tech sucks at the techies and bloggers venue. (thus, I'm getting online via the free hot spot from the coffee spot folks at Complete Story...

Now that 68% of Blacks, relative to 72% of whites, are online and regular internet users, what does the coming waves of technology bode for African-Americans and other communities of color? Do comparable levels of internet penetration (the telecom industry’s term, not my own) mean that we are post-Digital Divide? If we are now beyond the 20th Century concept of a ‘digital divide’, are we better off thinking in terms of technology justice and equity in technology?

The Obama campaign’s harnessing of the web has already made its presence felt in Denver. There’s more campaign-affiliated sub-groups, like the cohort of women crossing a downtown street with their ‘Asian-American and Pacific Islanders for Obama’ placard, who have self-organized and decided to visit, whether they have 'credentials' or not.
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Colorado and the West are at play for more reasons than the dynamism at the top of the Democratic ticket. In fact, there's a sea change washing across the Great Plains: with new demographics in the population, there are new voting blocs remaking the political map, and therefore the Electoral College.
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