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5 Cool Ways to Follow the 2012 Elections Online

Posted on 09/28/2012 by Election 2012 | Politics | Comments

Bulletin Today | PoliticsIf you’re a fan of Saturday Night Live, you may have gotten a chuckle from the spoof advertisement poking fun at what political pundits call ”low information” undecided voters. “Before you’re going to get our vote, you’re going to have to answer some questions,” the ad explains. “What are the names of the two people running? And be specific!” But seriously, though, unless you’re filing an absentee ballot from a desert island without Internet access, there’s really no excuse for being a …

New Poll Shows Significant Age Divide on GOP Medicare Plan

Posted on 09/27/2012 by Election 2012 | Politics | Comments

Bulletin Today | PoliticsBy Jordan Rau of Kaiser Health News The Republican proposal to change Medicare that has been championed by GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan remains unpopular with Americans, although younger people are more receptive to it than older ones, according to a new poll. Only 37 percent say that the program should be changed to a “premium support” system in which the government provides beneficiaries with a fixed amount of money to buy coverage, either from traditional Medicare or private …

In the Presidential Election, Age Does Matter, But Only If You’re . . .

Posted on 05/30/2012 by Election 2012 | Politics | Comments

Bulletin Today | PoliticsUnless you bend over backwards to avoid reading about politics (in which case, would you be here?), you probably know that President Barack Obama does better among younger voters than Mitt Romney, and that Romney does better among older voters than Obama. Consider, for example, Gallup’s analysis of more than 15,000 daily tracking interviews with registered voters conducted from April 11 to May 16, 2012. It shows Obama and Romney tied at 46 percent each. Among voters aged 18 to …

Duking It Out Online

Posted on 05/3/2012 by Election 2012 | Politics | Comments

Bulletin Today | Politics | TechnologyThis year’s presidential campaign, more than any in history, will play out on a digital battleground — everything from the candidates’ own websites to Facebook and Twitter and anything, really, that comes to us byte-by-byte. Digital ads have joined television and radio ads as instruments of political persuasion and propaganda. E-mail is crowding out direct mail in the same way. Even fundraising has moved increasingly online, where campaigns can collect money (in mostly small amounts) nearly as fast as they …

For Romney, What A Difference Four Years Makes

Posted on 04/25/2012 by Election 2012 | Politics | Comments

Bulletin Today | PoliticsMitt Romney’s “favorable” rating has been on something of a roller coaster in 2012. But the more older Republican primary voters have seen him, the more they seem to like him. Romney, who abandoned his 2008 quest for the Republican presidential nomination soon after Super Tuesday, has been doing better among 50-plus voters in the GOP primaries this year, according to exit polls. With few exceptions, Romney improved his standing among 50- to 64-year-old Republicans as well as Republicans 65 …

A Political Fish Story

Posted on 04/24/2012 by Election 2012 | Politics | Comments

Bulletin Today | PoliticsPolitical tradition in Virginia comes down to shad — an oily, bony fish that someone once decided would be just delicious if it were split in two and cooked on wooden planks over an open fire. In fact, the fish is something of an acquired taste. At least that’s what I recently discovered at the annual Shad Planking festival in Wakefield, Virginia, a bucolic little town about 35 miles south of Richmond. This must-do event for state and local political …