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.
Sunday, January 20, 2013
Thursday, November 8, 2012
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?
- 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.
- 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.
Monday, April 16, 2012
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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Sunday, April 8, 2012
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
Dog Health Care
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Monday, March 19, 2012
Rep Issa Discusses Technology in Washington ans SOPA
Mashable's interview 5 Questions For Rep. Darrell Issa, SOPA Opponent and ‘Internet Defender’ provides an interesting look, not only at what stopped the SOPA legislation, but also how Washington deals with technology. Essentially they're behind the times, and for the few legislators who do have a grasp on current (or emerging) technologies political party is of little consequence.
When the technology community rallied together in opposition of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), Rep. Issa was at the front lines of Congress fighting to kill the bill. And as a former electronics company CEO, he’s one of the few Congressman who seem to “get it” when it comes to technology (Fun fact: Rep. Issa lent his voice to the alarm system for the ultra-sleek Dodge Viper).
The debate around SOPA and other technology bills doesn’t divide neatly along party lines. Do you think technology issues are, in a way, bipartisan?
“Intellectual property and how we deal with that is always bipartisan … Sen. Wyden (D-Ore.) was particularly helpful in this entire debate, he brought his own version [of an intellectual property bill] to the Senate floor. [Rep. Jared] Polis [D-Colo.] was great to have as somebody else who knew the Internet and what it could do.”
You put the draft version of the OPEN Act online for the public to read and comment upon. Do you think that kind of transparency is the future of politics and technology?
“I do believe it is the future. Congress has to be willing to fund it. The Madison project had to be done at an external site because that kind of interactive exchange isn’t allowed under the House’s firewall rule, so we went to an outside storage facility.
“We don’t like to call the people who make the rules in the House and the Senate “Luddites,” but they’re pretty close. They’re very ultra-conservative on what (new technologies) they’re willing to adopt. Congress only went to Outlook Web a year ago — and it was still only a belt-and-suspenders type of access … our whole infrastructure is built around not getting hacked rather than getting access.
“The technology systems in the House are quite archaic, and if you’re dealing with members that have been around for a long time, it’s harder to adopt new platforms than if you’re in the private sector and more comfortable with new platforms. A big part of the House’s bandwidth is actually used for an off-site redundancy, which duplicates every one of our sites for Outlook and all of our servers. We use so much bandwidth for that, I’m still fighting to get (Voice over IP) telephones installed in the House.”
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Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Counting Delegates on Super Tuesday
Super Tuesday is here. There is sure to be plenty of delegate counting tonight. The New York Times has put together a sharp and handy delegate counter that visually shows where the race and the candidates are when it comes to delegates. It is certainly worth taking a look at particularly for those who like a visual approach to the math involved in the candidates getting to that 'magic number.'
NYT Delegate Counter
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Monday, March 5, 2012
Report - Yahoo to Cut Jobs
Reuter Reports via Yahoo...
Yahoo preparing layoffs, could affect thousands: report
"SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc's new chief executive is preparing a significant restructuring of the Internet company, including layoffs that could cut thousands of employees from its payroll, according to a technology blog.
The moves could be announced as soon as the end of the month and would represent the first major changes under CEO Scott Thompson, the former PayPal president who took the top job at Yahoo in January.
The changes at the struggling Web pioneer, which recently hired the Boston Consulting Group, will focus on its products group, as well as on research, marketing and public relations and businesses that are not core to the company, according to the report on Monday in the blog AllThingsDigital.com, which cited anonymous sources."
Yahoo preparing layoffs, could affect thousands: report
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