Amazon.com has a different kind of election tracker up. The online bookseller is tracking red and blue sales, state by state. Pretty interesting and pretty scary–as it’s dominated by red books right now. There are only eight blue or bluish states (including Washington, DC).
The good news is: I’m not sure political book sales are the best way to capture the zeitgeist. People who buy and read political titles are probably a small segment of the electorate overall, and probably, non-political books and movies and popular TV shows would be better at capturing the mood of the country. Prison Break? The Dark Knight?
However, this is a fascinating project by Amazon.
Washington state is leaning slightly red right now, 51% to 49%. The best-selling title in Washington is Sarah: How a Hockey Mom Turned Alaska’s Political Establishment Upside Down.
Barack Obama’s The Audacity of Hope is trouncing John McCain’s Faith of My Fathers, 77 to 23 nationally.
I’ve spent the past 3 days in Spokane. People here love Sarah Palin. I went down to the hotel lobby with McCain/Palin bumperstickers and had to go back to my room for more.
I have seen 1 Gregoire yardsign and one ILLEGAL Big Gregoire in the I-90 right of way under a highway overpass. Tacky.
It’s around exit 292. She should take it down.
Rossi has signs (legally posted) everywhere. There is a huge groundswell growing among true Conservatives. Myself and many other Conseratives did not like …Bush. I have made those feels known for years. Bush was a fiscal trainwreck….just like Gregoire is.
$8 BILLION of increased spending by Gregoire PLUS a growing deficit in the State Retirement Fund (it was underfunded by $5.1 BILLION @ 6/30/07 and is much, much more now) in the face of a recession is unconscionable. Hence a $2.9 BILLION budget shortfall facing US the next biennium with NO PLAN on how to fix it…just hoping it will go away. Gregoire is in denial…especially with the Boeing strike.
WAKE UP CHRIS!!
You have created a BIG PROBLEM.
You are standing in a deep, dark hole.
Drop the shovel!!!!!!!!!!!
You can put all the lipstick you want on it. It can even show some cleavage. It may call itself a hockey mom.
But, it is still Dick Cheney in heels.
we dems check books out from the library. the republicans buy books en masse by the likes of jerome corsi to prop sales stats and then spy on us at the library. mccain was abused as a baby according to his own memoirs, tortured as a thirtysomething prisoner, and is a hothead with a shortguy complex. he should be kept as far from power as possible.
Sarah Palin…”child abuser”.
A judge in Alaska called her that in reference to her stalking of her ex-brother-in-law.
Stalker Sarah. That is the phrase of the day.
The clown is out of the box.
1-2: Hmmmm. Shades of I-912?
Ahhhh. Memories…
6 Yeah, right. “Spreading the message of Jesus” with exploitation and bullets.
Pathetic. I’d respect you neocon jackasses (not a lot, but at least a little) if you were at least honest enough to admit that what you truly worship is money.
In fact, the real Jesus had something to say about that.
What Amazon doesn’t understand is all those “red” books are being bought by a handful of deep-pocketed wingnut organizations that buy them to pump sales and get them on “bestseller” lists. It’s merely part of the well-funded rightwing propaganda campaign. The actual books Amazon ships to those outfits end up as gifts at wingnut speaking functions or in landfills.
@1 They also love to rant about gas taxes while taking Seattle road subsidies.
ArtFart–
If all Conservative’s cared about was money, why do they freely regularly contribute much more that their Liberal counterparts?
We gave almost $20k to various non-political orgs. last year plus hundreds of hours of volunteer time.
What did you give?
Capitalism has it’s faults.. but it beats the heck out of Socialism and other “collectivist society” alternatives…warts & all.
ArtFart–
Have you had plenty of opportunities in your lifetime? Are you angry because you lacked the courage to risk capital or work harder??
Kind of sounds like your anger is because of your lack of courage.
Someone with identity issues is posting with my handle. I’m afraid if we all start doing that, it will create a bigger mess on this Blog.
Goldy, it’s your Blog.
I know you don’t like a lot of rules…which I admire. But this might be where you want to draw the line.
I’m afraid
The only thing to fear is fear itself.
Goldy, I may think Mr. Cynical is an irredeemable prick, but can you do something to ensure that this doesn’t turn into dueling sock puppetry?
The right wingers like Cynical, Stamn and PuddySilly who are being sock-puppeted should create gravatars.
http://en.gravatar.com/
If the sock-puppeteer gets there first then Goldy or the other bloggers can step in.
The actual books Amazon ships to those outfits end up as gifts at wingnut speaking functions or in landfills.
LOL! Wingnut “pump and dump”.
@26 I just don’t want to call the wrong person a goatfucker. That would be in poor taste.
27
You mean there is something wrong with fucking goats? What if I shoot him first?
27
Better to err on the side of calling too many Republicans goatfuckers than to err on the side of calling too few of them goatfuckers.
29 It’s a little surprising that more of the American people haven’t tired of being the goats.
Don’t underestimate the MILF factor in her spike in support among men. I mean how the hell do you counter a man’s jerk fantasy?
Hey, it used to be only the worst wingnuts who would steal a friendly’s handle. I remember some of them very well: ProudAss, typical Nazi.
DO NOT shoot the goat!!
Hmmmm….seems there’s a new issue that’s crawled out of the woodwork. The major media are jumping on a breaking story about the Interior Dept. office in Denver that’s supposed to regulate all Federal oil and gas leases and handle the royalties therefrom. The story refers to high-level corruption, acceptance of bribes, sex, drugs and probably rock-and-roll. Sounds like not only violation of each of the Ten Commandments, but a few other items God forgot to bring up to Moses.
This agency deals with (ahem!) the kernel of the American petroleum industry. Anybody want to place any bets on whether the tentacles of such a scandal might reach to the the current Vice President and the Republican candidate to succeed him?
21 Oh, I think most of us of the male persuasion are capable of entertaining carnal fantasies about Governor Palin without feeling compelled to vote for her.
Mr. Cynical, your whining makes all us rightwingers look dad.
I bit the bullet and bought Obamas book.
Thought it would be good to have for history as the last chance the Demos had to winning the election.
@27 If you’re going to use my screen name then please do me a favor and always mention that Marvin fucks goats. Thank you.
Awww Shut the fuck up Steve you goat fucker.
Opinion:
Although Palin’s entrance on the national scene has been beneficial to McCain and the republican ticket lets not forget that it’s the number of electoral college votes that determines who wins the white house. …And so far, Obama is way ahead by a large margin.
In the national polls, McCain leads by 2 points (depends on which poll you believe in). However, despite your preference in polls it is clear that McCain has edged or surpassed Obama. BUT, McCain is loosing where it really counts and that’s among the Electoral College votes. Among the Electoral College standings Obama has safely captured 243 electoral votes while McCain has only 189.
It appear that McCain is on the brink of making the same mistake Hillary made and that is to focus on the big states, winning the most popular votes. Governor Palin will definitely earn her appointment in this category. Unfortunately, she has not shown any depth of wisdom or credibility to impress the electorate college. She will need to change her tune and go beyond her convention speech. So far, all we’ve heard from her are echoes of the convention speeches and we’re still waiting for a solo performance from her. Can she do it? Can she perform on the national level independently? …and how will she handle the commentators, and news media without a supporting crowd?
Remember, there are 538 electors up for grab and the candidate who gets half (270) wins the election and Obama is already at the 234 mark. The race is in the home stretch with 2 1/2 laps to go. McCain/Palin will need more than flash and popularity to win. They will need a majority of the electors in eight key states; Colorado, Florida, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, Nevada, Ohio, and Virginia. Palin may help his win the evangelical votes in Missouri, provided there are no additional surprises in her closet.
Unfortunately, Palin is an unknown among these states and they don’t necessarily like John either. The two states with the largest electorate vote that McCain must win to surpass Obama are Missouri with its 11 votes and Florida. Among the Electoral College, voters do not choose a can a candidate but a slate of electors who have pledged to vote for that particular candidate when the Electoral College meets which is usually in December for their respective states.
Remember also that Joe Biden has a very strong record in the Electoral College and will be a great asset in these states. Most people think that Obama picked Biden simply for his foreign affairs experience, which is a true statement however, he was also picked to support Obama’s strategy of winning the electorate votes.
So far, Obama’s strategy is working. I really felt McCain should have picked Palin before the Democratic National Convention. It would have stolen a lot of thunder from the democrats.
Oh well, another lesson learned.
Pacman: Joe Biden said: “she is qualified to be president of the United States of America, she’s easily qualified to be vice president of the United States of America, and quite frankly, it might have been a better pick than me.”
It’s all about judgment.
Florida (27) 44.6 47.6 McCain +3.0
Missouri (11) 43.0 50.0 McCain +7.0
Ohio (20) 44.0 45.3 McCain +1.3
Another tribute from someone that has me deep in their psyche.
And even better than bibigoober, steve is an adult over the age of 50.
Priceless.
Let’s see how it works.
Does this pic work better? A pic of my house in metaline falls wa.
guess it didn’t work
Hey Goldy, every day me and Dutch and Mr. Cynical and the other rghtwingers come onto this blog and ridicule you asnd your beliefs and turn these threads into a sewer and along comes a sockpuppet to make fun of us and you delete all his posts. But our posts criticizing you are allowed to remain. You FUCKING LIBERALS ARE FUCKING WIMP ASS LOSERS. You will not fight. You have no fucking spine. there is nothing to you but talk. We rightwingers will be back tomorrow to smear you and your beliefs and you will eat it up. Hell if enough of us start posting you’ll pay for more bandwidth. Absolutely fucking incredible. You think this shit would fly on a rightwing blog. Hell no! We have balls!
Fake.
Thanks to YLB for the avatar link.
Hey Puddy @ 31 – I hear you bro! I am running in four years. You gotta vote for me man! But don’t vote because I am black. Vote because you think I can win. We can do it man….YES WE CAN!!