Election Review, Part 1 Today's essay is the first in a series analyzing the results of the 2008 presidential election. Our goal here is not to describe every minute detail, but rather to highlight significant trends that emerged on Election Day.
To do that, we shall use three types of data: countywide vote results going back to 1988; exit poll data going back to 1996; and a range of socioeconomic information provided by the Census Bureau. Occasionally, we'll use this data to examine individual states, but the focus will be on divisions of the country, as defined by the Census Bureau:
As we can see, the Census Bureau identifies four broad regions, then nine divisions. We'll largely use the divisions.1
A Surprise for Langley WASHINGTON -- On its face, it's a puzzling choice: Barack Obama selects as his spy chief a former congressman with no first-hand experience as an intelligence professional. Is Obama dissing the CIA? Is he further politicizing this badly bruised agency? What signal is he sending by picking Leon Panetta as CIA director?
Here's the message, according to Obama's advisers: Panetta is a Washington heavyweight with the political clout to protect the agency and help it to rebuild after a traumatic eight years under George Bush, when it became a kind of national pin cushion.
The Pros and Cons of Picking Panetta There are, I suspect, quite a few jobs in government for which having no experience is not a liability. But few would list CIA director among them. Which is why Barack Obama's pick of Leon Panetta is causing so much consternation.
A former congressman, Mr. Panetta, 70, served as budget director and then as chief of staff in the Clinton administration. But he's never spent a day in the intelligence community.
The outgoing chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WVa), and the incoming chairman, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), are cool to the choice. Both Ms. Feinstein and Mr. Rockefeller had recommended deputy director Steven Kappes.
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Humble Soul, Hawaii Humble Soul, Hawaii. Encompassing the spirit of aloha and the soul of reggae music, Hawaii's own Humble Soul continues to chill the hearts of music lovers from the shores of the Pacific rim to South Africa with his distinctive style of hones "Hawaiian-Roots- Music". His dub is much appreciated by many a chef in Hawaii for a night in the weeds smoke down. www.HumbleSoul.com Original: http://cookingchaos.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=94113# 25.05.2006
Cameo Lebrun, San Francisco Cameo LeBrun started Crave, a wholesale San Francisco bakery, in 2003. She started off her production by renting time in a licensed bakery. Cake "Stick shifts and safety belts" talks along in the back. www.CraveBakery.org