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Obama’s Pollster Dumps on Gallup Joel Benenson, the pollster for the Obama campaign, took a swipe at the Gallup Poll for assuming an electorate that was much older, whiter, and less educated than what the exit polls showed. Gallup shot back that you shouldn’t put all that much faith in the exit polls and Gallup […]

Obama Wins Third Debate The snap polls are in and President Obama clearly won last night’s debate. The CBS poll of uncommitted voters gave President Obama a decisive 53% to 23% victory. The CNN poll of debate watchers also put Obama ahead, albeit by a smaller margin, 48% to 40%. PPP ran a snap poll […]

Now Comes the Hard Part for the Campaigns Anyone who thinks that politics is not topic A at the White House right nowprobably also believes children’s milk teeth put under their pillows are replaced with cash by the tooth fairy ridinga pink unicorn.The trick is to be political but not make it look political. Obama […]

One Week to Go Hurricane or no hurricane, election day is a week from today. People may have to wade to the polls andvote by candletight, but elections are not called off due to the mere inconvenience of 80 MPH winds,flooded roads, and power outages. Let’s take a quick run down of where we are […]

In a piece in this week’s New York Times that has thus far elicited 556 comments, David Leonhardt talks about “what is arguably the nation’s biggest challenge: breaking out of a decade of income stagnation that has afflicted the middle class and the poor and exacerbated inequality.” Leonhardt writes: The causes of income stagnation are […]

The design for Apple’s planned headquarters in Palo Alto. Apple has the largest market capitalization of any corporation in the U.S. Given how much time we spend working for and interacting with corporations every day, it’s unsurprising that we tend to see them as a natural part of our social fabric. But it’s important to […]

Before the campaign contributors lavished billions of dollars on their favorite candidate; and long after they toast their winner or drink to forget their loser, Wall Street was already primed to continue its reign over the economy. For, after three debates (well, four), when it comes to banking, finance, and the ongoing subsidization of Wall […]

Happy Food Day! The Center for Science in the Public Interest has designated October 24 as a day “to address issues as varied as health and nutrition, hunger, agricultural policy, animal welfare, and farm worker justice.” It’s a good idea, and to mark the occasion, I’d share an organic apple from my CSA if I […]

With Less than Two Weeks to Go, It Is All About Ohio The national polls–with the exception of Gallup, which is undersampling minorities–are very close, but as always,it is the electoral college that matters. If Obama wins the states the Democrats have won in the last five elections(which seems likely) plus New Mexico (which is […]

18 Million Rising (18MR), an organization promoting voter registration among the Asian American community, has launched a series of online spots worth checking out for their humor and educational value. As CNN’s Moni Basu reports, the series of “Bee a Winner” videos features comedian Bob Saget and South Asian actors- with Parvesh Cheena of Outsourced […]