It’s done. Barack Hussein Obama is the 44th president of the United States. We could talk about the speech, the rare show of nerves while taking the oath and the beautiful precision with which American retires one head of state and installs another. Or we could talk about fashion. Like, has an incoming president ever [...]
The DGreport Presidential Straw poll puts Barack Obama ahead with 55.9 percent of the votes cast compared to 44.1for John McCain. Prescient or poppycock? We’ll find out tomorrow. Who knows? Maybe Downers Grove will prove itself as the nation’s new bellwether. Seems early voting was brisk at village hall as elsewhere. As of Thursday, Oct. [...]
Since I haven’t yet figured out how to add a simple poll to this website, I’m going with Survey Monkey again for the the DGreport Presidential Straw Poll. Just one easy question (posed in alphabetical order): McCain/Palin or Obama/Biden? Click here to cast your secret ballot. I’ll publish the results Tuesday.
Grammich writes: “Did anybody notice there were more Democratic (131,635) ballots than Republican ones (108,583) cast yesterday in DuPage County? Has that ever happened before? For the record, there were also 166 Green and 1,186 non-partisan ballots cast. Turnout was 44 percent of registered voters, compared to 26 percent of registered voters in the 2004 [...]
Today is Super Duper Tuesday, that great winnowing on the way to choosing the candidates who will represent their parties in November. If you waited until today to vote, my compliments. I was one of 2,447 people who cast ballots last month at Village Hall, lured by the convenience of early voting. And — drats! [...]
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