3 Things To Know This Saturday

1. McCain's campaign manager says GOP should support gay marriage.

2. High-Speed Rail!

3. Golden Arches crush couple in SUV.

3 Things To Know This Friday

1. Brazil says, "White, blue-eyed bankers are the problem."

2. McCain's chief strategist now supports gay marriage.

3. This is an actual headline featured on Drudgereport.com - "Stimulus funds to be used to try to curtail suicide attempts. Some call plan wasteful."

The Electoral Map - 2 Years Ago

McCain 510 Electoral Votes, Obama 28 - How far we've come.

via - Survey USA

3 Things To Know This Tuesday (Election Edition)

1. I knew this sounded illegal.

2. Obama defeated John McCain 15-6.

3. Karl Rove predicts Obama landslide?!?

3 Things To Know This Thursday

1. Sarah Palin will never be in charge of the Senate. Ever.

2. You only get what you give!

3. Obama is popping up everywhere, like Colombian lottery tickets...seriously.

The Very First Exit Poll (Don't Worry It's Funny)

Joel Stein from Time.com decided to conduct the very first exit poll of 2008. It happens to be hilarious, below are the results and the link at the bottom is the story he wrote about his experience.

POLL RESULTS, IN PERCENTAGES

1) When did you decide to vote for your Presidential candidate?

WITHIN THE LAST TWO WEEKS
4 %

AFTER FIRST DEBATE
8 %

AFTER CONVENTIONS
8 %

WHEN THE CANDIDATE WRAPPED UP THE NOMINATION
40 %

DURING THE PRIMARIES
12 %

BEFORE THE PRIMARIES
20 %

ONCE SARAH PALIN WAS CHOSEN
8 %

2) Who did you vote for?

OBAMA
84 %

MCCAIN
16 %

3) Why did you vote early?

AVOID LINES
28 %

OUT OF TOWN
24 %

AFRAID OF ELECTION DAY PROBLEMS THAT WOULD DISCOUNT THEIR VOTE
16 %

WORKING ON ELECTIONS STUFF ON ELECTION DAY
12 %

WENT WITH FRIEND WHO WAS DOING IT
8 %

LESS CROWDS ALLOWED ME TO READ ALL THE PROPOSITIONS CAREFULLY
4 %

SO THEY WOULDN'T HAVE TO PAY ATTENTION TO CAMPAIGN ANYMORE
4 %

AFRAID THEY MIGHT BE BUSY ON ELECTION DAY OR JUST OVER-EXCITED
4 %

THIS BLACK TALK RADIO DJ SAID TO
4 %

4) Did you vote early to avoid all the old people?

YES
0 %

NO
100 %

5) Did you buy Christmas presents already?

YES
36 %

NO
60 %

DOES NOT CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS IN A MATERIALISTIC WAY
4 %

6) Did you do your taxes already?

YES
36 %

NO
56 %

N/A (IN COLLEGE)
8 %

7) Did you apply early admission to college? (Some did not attend college)

YES
44 %

NO
56 %

8) Do people sometimes call you anal?

YES
36 %

NO
64 %

9) What are you doing on election day with your free time?

GLUED TO RESULTS ON TV
36 %

OUT OF TOWN
20 %

WORKING TO GET OTHERS TO VOTE
20 %

GOING TO A PARTY
16 %

WORKING
4 %

SLEEPING (COLLEGE KID)
4 %

10) Would you like to vote for an American Idol winner right now too?

YES
12 %

NO
4 %

I DON'T WATCH AMERICAN IDOL
80 %

11) Who would you vote for in 2012 if we let you do that right now too?

OBAMA
60 %

JEB BUSH
4 %

SARAH PALIN
4 %

JESSE JACKSON
4 %

WOULD NOT VOTE NOW FOR NEXT-NEXT PRESIDENT
28 %

12) Did voting early just give Ohio more time to lose your vote?

YES
12 %

NO
88 %

13) If you find out some new piece of information before election day — like that Sarah Palin is unqualified to be President — that would change your vote. Would you feel bad?

YES
0 %

NOTHING WILL CHANGE MY MIND
100 %

14) Do you have stamps on you?

YES
12 %

NO
24 %

FORGOT TO ASK
48 %

15) Main issue that affected your vote?

ECONOMY
32 %

SUPREME COURT
12 %

KNOW PEOPLE WHO PERSONALLY KNOW AND LIKE CANDIDATE
12 %

HEALTH CARE
4 %

FORGOT TO ASK
56 %

Demographic Info

MEN
52 %

WOMEN
48 %

BLACK
44 %

WHITE
56 %

UNDER 50
64 %

OVER 50
32 %

SEEMED GAY
12 %

DIDN"T SEEM GAY
88 %

Joel Stein: My Own Election Exit Poll

$3,000,000 Overhead Projector?

So last night on the 2nd presidential debate John McCain suggested in passing that Barack Obama voted to spend 3 million dollars on an overhead projector. What was he talking about?

With a little searching I found that he was actually referring to a proposal Obama made to try and get some funding for the Adler Planetarium. It hadn't been updated in over 40 years and they no longer made the replacement parts for the dated equipment they used at the time.

I know McCain is out of touch but come on this was not for some desktop projector! It was for the buses full of students who, because of Barack Obama, can still visit this Chicago landmark.

Not exactly wasteful spending.

Obama 08 Graph

This is an interesting graph (click on it so you can actually see it) showing where Obama is polling compared to 2000 and 2004. I like his chances.

3 Things To Know This Wednesday

1. The vodka pipeline.

2. Russia to build Cuba a space station.

3. How can Obama and McCain be even in the polls?

3 Things To Know This Saturday

1. "Hari Puttar" is not coming to a theater near you.

2. Republican VP's husband Todd Mitchell Palin - Snowmobile Racer! (Oh and by the way, their oldest sons name is Track)

3. Going 263 kilometres per hour will get you a $12,000 fine in Alberta, Canada

3 Things To Know This Thursday

1. John McCain is not an elitist. Oh wait.

2. Hallmark starts selling gay marriage cards.

3. Man continues tradition of a Cadillac-a-year since 1955.

3 Things To Know This Wednesday

1. I wonder what the last movies Barack Obama and John McCain saw last?

2. 111-year-old becomes father, first child in 38 years.

3. 08-08-08, lucky day?"