- GOOD » GOOD Sheet: The First 100 Days» – “I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people,” Franklin D. Roosevelt told supporters in 1932 while accepting the presidential nomination. When he took office the following year, he spent his first 100 days enacting a dizzying number of reforms designed to stabilize an economically depressed nation. Since then, a president’s first 100 days have been an indicator of what he is able to accomplish. In January 2009, the clock starts again.
Posts Tagged: johnmccain
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Oct 08
Daily Links for October 29th
- FiveThirtyEight.com: Electoral Projections Done Right: McCain Miami Rally, Getting Ugly Down Here – After the rally, we witnessed a near-street riot involving the exiting McCain crowd and two Cuban-American Obama supporters. Tony Garcia, 63, and Raul Sorando, 31, were suddenly surrounded by an angry mob. There is a moment in a crowd when something goes from mere yelling to a feeling of danger, and that's what we witnessed. As photographers and police raced to the scene, the crowd elevated from stable to fast-moving scrum, and the two men were surrounded on all sides as we raced to the circle.
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Oct 08
Daily Links for October 24th
- Time Off to Vote for Employees — A State by State Survey | The Word –
- New York Times Endorsements Through the Ages – Interactive Graphic – NYTimes.com –
- Daily Kos: Through A Cracked Mirror – So we have a wealthy aging war hero who runs as the hard-drinkin' friend of the little folk. And it worked. Harrison won in a blow out. There was just one little problem for team Whig: the "aging" part. Harrison was the oldest president elected pre-Ronald Reagan, and just weeks after settling into the White House, Harrison died. That left "Tyler too" in charge of the place.
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Oct 08
Daily Links for October 20th
- 40 Essential Tools and Resources to Visualize Data | FlowingData –
- Brian Tierney Uses the Inquirer to Spread Right-Wing Talking Points, and Settle Old Scores | Young Philly Politics – This is almost too bizarre to be true. For those that don't know, Brian Tierney did communications for Sam Katz on his Mayoral campaign. His counterpart in the Street campaign was David Axelrod. Tierney The dissenter is so small that he is using an op-ed to settle a score with the guy- David Axelrod- who beat him 5 years ago. And he is too cowardly to do it in the open.
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Oct 08
Daily Links for October 17th
- 10 Best Protest Songs Of The 21st Century –
- The Extreme Presentation(tm) Method: 36 slides that pass the Squint Test –
- Two Families Named McCain – WSJ.com – The black and white McCain families have long acknowledged their shared history at Teoc, a name that applies to both the plantation and the now-sparse community around it. A cousin of the senator still owns 1,500 acres of the original 2,000. Sen. McCain's younger brother, Joe, and other white McCains have attended family reunions organized by the African-American McCains.
