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		<title>Common Sense and the Minnesota Recount</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:44:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Take a minute to peruse this article from the Minnesota Public Radio website, detailing some of the challenged ballots up for recount in the Minnesota Senate race between Norm Coleman and Al Franken.  It is interesting to see the actual photographs of a sample of challenged ballots as well as the reasons for the challenge. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=averagetodd.wordpress.com&blog=5139358&post=107&subd=averagetodd&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spit from the Horse&#8217;s Mouth &#8211; Paulson Editorializes Himself</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson wrote an article for todays New York Times Op/Ed page.  Topic: Henry Paulson.  In efforts for full disclosure, the article, entitled Fighting the Financial Crisis, One Challenge at a Time, was actually an account of where we stand a few short months after the announcement of the crisis.  As Secretary Paulson was the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=averagetodd.wordpress.com&blog=5139358&post=105&subd=averagetodd&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Quick Financial Crisis Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
When Secretary Paulson announced the need for a massive 700 billion dollar bailout of the financial sector, it seemed like an immense amount of money.  He said that the stability of the US financial institutions were at stake.  The taxpayers trust, the treasure of our country, was offered as the stopgap.  Congress passed legislation, pundits [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=averagetodd.wordpress.com&blog=5139358&post=102&subd=averagetodd&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bailout Pie in our Face</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:36:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post is reporting that, although we have committed over $290 billion of the original $700 billion bailout, we have not begun serious implementation of a system of oversight.  
Barney Frank is claiming that, because the nature of the giant rescue package has changed, the need for oversight is not as pressing as it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=averagetodd.wordpress.com&blog=5139358&post=94&subd=averagetodd&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>American Politics and Argumentative Fallacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:09:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I wonder if our entire political system is based on argumentative fallacy.  This is a very sad prospect to someone who prizes logic.  Is it a hasty generalization (irony intended)?  Perhaps, however, this election cycle, I too often found myself referencing the ideas of Ad Hominem, Ad Populum, straw man, and moral equivalence arguments. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=averagetodd.wordpress.com&blog=5139358&post=90&subd=averagetodd&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Veterans Day</title>
		<link>http://averagetodd.wordpress.com/2008/11/11/on-veterans-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I think of Joe the Soldier&#8230;
I remember when my parents took me to see the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C.  I was very young and the Memorial was one stop of many as we took in as much as we could on our brief visit.  We toured the FBI building, the White House, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=averagetodd.wordpress.com&blog=5139358&post=83&subd=averagetodd&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Winners and Losers From This Election Cycle</title>
		<link>http://averagetodd.wordpress.com/2008/11/10/winners-and-losers-from-this-election-cycle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:43:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fresh Faces, Old Faithfuls, First Looks, and Last Hurrahs Part I
 
When Senator Obama reached the 270 electoral vote threshold last Tuesday, he was announced as the President Elect of the United States of America.  Senator McCain conceded soon after, and the most tangible winner and loser were defined.  They were not, however, the only winners [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=averagetodd.wordpress.com&blog=5139358&post=78&subd=averagetodd&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Waiting in Line to Vote</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:24:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of the things I heard while standing in line at my polling place in West Philadelphia this morning&#8230;  
 
&#8220;We&#8217;re making history today, boy!&#8221;
&#8220;Oh my Lord, you&#8217;re all grown up, I haven&#8217;t seen you in, what, 15 years!&#8221;
&#8220;Don&#8217;t let them turn you away.  You have the right to cast a provisional ballot.&#8221;
&#8220;He&#8217;s said he ain&#8217;t.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=averagetodd.wordpress.com&blog=5139358&post=71&subd=averagetodd&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Twas the Night Before&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We stand at the precipice of history.  The citizens of the United States of America are poised to elect the first non-white President of our country.  This is an amazing accomplishment considering both the historical and current state of racism in the US, and its conspicuousness at the highest levels of our political and societal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=averagetodd.wordpress.com&blog=5139358&post=66&subd=averagetodd&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Obama Infomercial</title>
		<link>http://averagetodd.wordpress.com/2008/10/30/the-obama-infomercial/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The half-hour segment aired by the Obama-Biden Campaign during prime time On Wednesday, October 29, 2008 was a rating success, but its impact on the vote will be extremely difficult to measure.  With the days counting down, the spot was a calculated risk for the campaign.  Initial indication seems to be that the risk will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=averagetodd.wordpress.com&blog=5139358&post=61&subd=averagetodd&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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