Love for Boston

From Rambling Web, Boston Love

Change is coming to Purple People Vote. In the meantime some interesting photography and quotation links...

Photographs of Bennington Vermont

Witty Will Rogers Quotes

Nature Photographer Russell Graves - Texas Parks and Wildlife

Nature Photographer Wyman Meinzer - Insight Into Photographing the Land and Sky 

Rambling Web - New Blog Launch

A new blog Rambling Web Blog is preparing to launch. While still in the experimental phase, Rambling Web brings fun, interesting information to the reader. A family friendly G-rated site that posts unique content from around the web. Whether it is famous quotes, classic television clips, nature videos, cute/funny animals, or original stories, Rambling Web brings upbeat, light-hearted posts to the viewer.

Purple People Vote Restart

The Purple People Vote Blog is making a shift.  Instead of presenting my personal ideas on politics (I lean right on fiscal matters and left on social matters) this site is becoming a place to share ideas that may or may not fit squarely into the idiology of Democrats or Republicans.  Political ideas seem to often be presented as black and white with the connected choices being 'all' or 'none.'  Purple People Vote is an acknowlegement there are other ligitimate ideas, and plenty of people who are not neccessarily  all 'left' or all 'right.'  We simply welcome all thoughtful ideas and opinions here... Welcome, and thank you for visiting.

Why did Obama win New Hampshire?

New Hampshire went to Obama by ten points in 2008, and Congressional seats also went Democrat that year.  Two years later, Republicans swept, both locally and nationally.  New Hampshire has more voters registered as Independent than either Democrat or Republican.  How can Obama win in what is an independent, fiscally conservative state with Libertarian inclinations?

 

1. Give President Obama and his campaign credit, they know how to run a campaign.  Remember, before beating Senator McCain in 2008 he beat then-Senator Clinton.  A seasoned politician and campaigner, who was favored by many to win the whole race.  President Obama knows how to inspire volunteers, and his campaign knows how to use those volunteers to get out the vote. This is particularly evident in NH with the youth vote.  Turn out was high and new voter registration was high.  Two campaigns in a row he’s turned out young voters who previously never voted in these sort of numbers.  While this could also be said nationally for minority voters, quite frankly NH isn’t that diverse, so the numbers appear to have come largely young voters, and urban voters.

 

2. Republicans need to rethink the way they talk to sub-groups.  This, however, isn’t just a NH thing.  In what I believe to be the stupidest moment of the campaign, Rush Limbaugh went off on a woman who spoke publicly to members of Congress about birth control.  The merits of the argument aside, what played repeatedly in the media were Limbaugh’s comments (to paraphrase) calling this woman a slut for using too much birth control.  It was rude and dim-witted, and could not have helped with the women’s vote.  This combined with a couple of remarks by potential Republican senators about rape, gave the Republican party a problem with women.  Pro-life politicians could learn something from Senator McCain.  State your position as human rights issue, and leave moral judgments out of it.  Seems likely that pro-choice can accept a difference of opinion much easier that they can accept being talked down to.

 

Similarly, politicians need to understand that if they appear to be talking down to gays, women, or a particular ethnic group.  You’re not only alienating those people, you’re alienating the people who love them, their friends and family.  There’s no reason someone who is gay couldn’t be fiscally conservative.  However, the likelihood of someone who is gay voting Republican at this time almost zero.  If Republicans truly think traditional marriage should be part of their platform, they need to figure a way of addressing that issue that doesn’t make them appear like mean-spirited bullies.

 

New Hampshire is unique.  I don’t think there is another state in the union that has legalized gay marriage, and has no state income tax.  Both parties can win this state, but right now Democrats have the edge.  To sum NH up politically, I’d still say that the trick is ‘play nice and butt out.’  The electorate isn’t tied to a party so either side has the potential to win the ‘Live Free or Die’ state.

Political Football

The Women's Vote Vs. The Men's Vote - Game On pokes fun at what issues are 'supposed' to be 'men's issues' or 'women's issues.'

The most commonly claimed women’s issue – reproductive health. Fine, we are the ones to get pregnant, so that one goes in our column.

Following that logic, I declare ‘beer and guns’ a men’s issue. Now I like beer, but the numbers are what they are, beer and guns go to the men.

Consequently, the environment goes to the ladies. You ever tried to get a dude with a rifle to drive a Prius? Good luck – we’re taking the environment.

So since the guys have the guns, the military goes to the men – that’s only fair.

However, that also means foreign relations goes to the women. Don’t want the cowboy with the beer and the weaponry trying to talk to the ambassadors of Israel and Saudia Arabia about ‘Peace in the Middle East.’

The economy is more challenging. Concerns about gas prices will have to go to the men since they’re driving the hummers, and the women are driving the hybrids. Jobs are tricky, the women are at home barefoot and pregnant, so they may not need the job. However, are you going to hire the guy who pulls up to work in his Hummer with a 40 in one hand and a rocket launcher in the other? I’m thinking the women are more employable, so that means men are more concerned about the lack of jobs, and the women are more concerned about favorable economic conditions for businesses. Hence cost of gasoline and unemployment concerns go to the men. Deregulation and lower taxes go to the women.

That’s fair, right? Just following the numbers and the facts to their logical conclusion.

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Facebook Lists with Nasdaq

Nasdaq has further cemented it role as the tech stock listing with it winning Facebook's much anticipated entry to the stock market.

"Winning Google further emboldened Nasdaq's reputation as being the exchange of choice for the technology companies," said Jay Frankl, senior managing director, FTI consulting.

"The Facebook listing I've seen as being similar to the Google listing, which had a similar competition between the exchanges, and a similar win for Nasdaq and a tremendously successful IPO for both," Frankl said.

Companies pay annual fees to list their stock and exchanges also garner listings-related income from the sale of market data and ancillary services offered to their listed companies

Last year, listings and issuer services brought in about $372 million for Nasdaq OMX, accounting for about 22% of revenue.

Facebook will list shares on Nasdaq

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