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Those Ever-Changing Polls
As we enter the last weekend of the 2012 election campaign, it appears as if President Barack Obama has gained a boost in the polls as the result of his response to Hurricane Sandy. Prior to this week,...
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As the campaign winds down, the candidates are making their closing arguments. If you live in a swing state, you've had a chance to hear and see a lot of high profile political speakers, but for those...
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Predicting the Election
Tomorrow is election day and we've all been closely following the polls and pundits. So let's all put our expertise to the test. How do you predict tomorrow's elections will turn out? Are the polls an...
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The Last Day of Campaign 2012
It's typical for Presidential candidates on the last day of an election campaign to make as many campaign stops as possible, shouting themselves hoarse and trying to shore up as many states as...
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Potus Geeks: Poetry Corner
(With apologies to Clement Clarke Moore)Twas the day of election, and all through the nationThe creatures were stirring at each tv stationThe networks all filled with anchors with big hairHoping Ohio...
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Election 2012: Post Mortem
Although votes are still being counted in some states, we now know how the story ends. Barack Hussein Obama has been elected to the office of President of the United States for a second consecutive...
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LBJ and the CPB
On November 7, 1967 (45 years ago today) President Lyndon Johnson signed the Public Broadcasting Act, which created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). The act gave the CPB the...
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The Potus Geek Reading List: Last Year and Next
2012 was a year of prolific reading, for me at least. Most of my reading catered to my potus_geeks interest, and I managed to read the books I had planned on at the start of the year and more....
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Happy 3rd Birthday Potus Geeks
potus_geeks is three years old today! It was on March 26, 2010 that this community was formed. 1,297 journal entries and 197 members later, the geekery continues.This past year has seen the first...
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Bush Book Announced (and other upcoming reads)
In an entry in this community dated December 30, 2012, I listed my proposed potus_geeksReading List of 2013 and mentioned that there was a new, as yet unnamed, book about George W. Bush that was due...
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The Also-Rans: John McCain
Today our series of the "Also-Rans" is about John Sidney McCain III. McCain is the last candidate to run who was an authentic war hero and a prisoner of war. He is currently the senior United States...
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The Also-Rans: Ross Perot
H. (for Henry) Ross Perot is a Texas billionaire who ran for President twice in the 1990s, the second time under the banner of the Reform Party. Both elections were won by Bill Clinton. He is one of...
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The Also Rans: Mitt Romney
Too soon? I know we talked a lot about Mitt Romney in 2012, but I still felt that he deserved inclusion into this series. He was a strong candidate who ran in a very polarized election in which his...
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Book Review: The Center Holds - Obama and His Enemies by Jonathan Alter
In the author's note at the beginning of his book The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies, Jonathan Alter concedes his own personal liberal bias, but undertakes to the reader that he will use his best...
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Book Review: Collision 2012 - Obama vs. Romney and the Future of Elections in...
Readers who are wishing for an unbiased, non-slanted retelling of the story of the 2012 US Presidential election will find what they wish for in Dan Balz' fair and thorough offering Collision 2012:...
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The Best Books for Potus Geeks in 2013
2013 was an excellent year in books for potus_geeks. With the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy occurring in November, there was a flurry of books both about JFK and...
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Looking Back on 2013 (and Ahead to 2014!)
This past year was a good one for potus_geeks and for me personally as one of the geekiest. Here's a recap of some of the things that this community was up to in 2013.January: With the second...
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Book Review: Double Down - Game Change 2012
Authors Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, who chronicled the 2008 election of Barack Obama in their bestseller Game Change, once again team up to retrace the path of the candidates in the 2012 US...
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10 Women Who Could Be President in 2017
Today (March 8th) is International Women's Day, and the theme for 2014 is "Inspiring Change". In the 2008 Presidential election, Barack Obama campaigned as the candidate of change, but it was Hillary...
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Happy Birthday President Obama
On August 4, 1961 (53 years ago today), Barack Hussein Obama II was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is the 44th and current President of the United States, and the first African American to hold the...
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