Kyle Bell

Yesterday, Houston voters elected city controller Annise Parker as their new mayor. Current mayor Bill White is running for governor of Texas. Usually an election of this nature would not make headlines, but Annise Parker is not your usual female politician. She is an openly gay woman in a state known for its conservative politics. [...]

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The Republican Party is moving far to the right, as was expected following the exit of independent voters in 2006 and 2008. The Tea Party wing of the party is clearly winning out. Two polls confirm the radical thinking of the few remaining members. The polling firm PPP asked respondents whether Barack Obama won last [...]

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Former Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) may be busy shaking his booty on Dancing with the Stars, but that doesn’t mean he’s done thinking about politics. In an interview with Politics Daily, he casts doubt on Republican chances of winning a majority in the House in 2010:
Shaking his head with frustration, he added, “The Republican [...]

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I was watching election night coverage on CNN the other night and will.i.am came on from Grant Park in Chicago – not by a remote camera location. No, that’s soooo 20th century. For the first time on television (that I know of) an interview was broadcast using a hologram. Watch the video below:
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With the election of the first African American president, Barack Obama, America won in last night’s election. Not only will he be the first black president, he will also be the first Democrat to win a majority of the popular vote since Jimmy Carter in 1976. With not all of the vote yet counted, Obama [...]

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President Barack Obama (oops, Freudian slip!) was officially nominated today as the first African-American nominee to a major party. Hillary Clinton led on the convention floor to declare that Obama was the nominee of the party to defeat John McCain and the Republicans in November. It’s something that could only happen in the Democratic Party: [...]

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Our last electoral map update was on June 22. Now that we are in August, you would imagine that a lot has changed over the course of a month and a half. Not really. Surprisingly, the race has remained remarkably steady. The last major event to happen that changed the dynamics of the race was [...]

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This week’s update is going to be a little different than the last. We are now going to have three maps:
 
 
 

Will show states that favor either Obama or McCain and states that are competitive with the difference being less than 10%

The second map will show the same states that favor Obama or McCain, but add [...]

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John McCain today announced that he was for offshore oil drilling. Despite the fact that a.) many states don’t support it b.) it would produce only a long-term solution to an oil-focused energy mix, John McCain flip-flopped his position on this issue. That’s another flip-flop that you can add to the ever-growing list of flip-flops [...]

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Hello everyone! The last time I posted was on May 29, 2008. Hillary Clinton was still officially in the race, but the primary season mathematically ended on her weeks prior to that. She has finally since given it up, endorsing Barack Obama this past Saturday. The wounds will begin to heal after 17 months of [...]

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