Google Earth provides a satellite map breakdown, across the United States by county, of presidential election votes back to 1980.
Pretty nifty.
Find it here.
Steve Warmbir: October 2008 Archives
On Wednesday in the Chicago Sun-Times, we wrote an editorial about what a waste of time it is for voters to have reporters ask "gotcha" questions.
And what a waste of time it is for politicians to evade honest questions by using gotcha journalism as an excuse.
You can read the editorial here.
For a corollary of that strategy, check out this video from Katie Couric's interview with Sarah Palin.
Couric asks a straightforward question about what magazines Palin reads, and Palin does not give much of an answer.
At the end, Palin doesn't suggest the question is a gotcha question but rather implies it is condescending toward all residents of Alaska.
Wouldn't it just be easier to answer the question?
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