The Tedder P. Schoenhopfer Policy Exchange

It was an automated call that could tell my voice response. The call started out by saying it was a 45 second survey. The questions were something like this: Do you intend to vote? [Yes.] Would your choice be John McCain? [No.] Would your choice be Barack Obama? [Yes.] Are you pro-life? [No.] [I hate life! I didn't really say that part.] The next question was so confusing that I said “repeat”, and it repeated, and I said “repeat” again, and then I said, “This question is ridiculous” and it went on to the next. The question had a double or triple negative, something like “Do you want to not raise taxes and pay more?” It wasn’t that but I couldn’t figure it out or remember it. Next: Do you have access to the internet at home, work, or school? [Yes.] Are you male? [No.] Are you age 35 or older? [Yes.] Have you supported a political campaign, church, or religious organization? [Yes.] “This poll was paid for by the Americans United to Preserve Marriage. Thank you.”

I’m really curious about how the questions would have gonehad I given different answers; I wonder if, say, I’d answered “Yes” to the pro-life question, they would have asked a question like, “Were you aware that Barack Obama wants to murder little children?”

Has anyone else gotten any push-poll calls? And, now that I think of it, I have gotten very few calls from campaigns so far, other than the ones asking me to phone bank and canvass, and those are expected because I put my name on many lists saying I would volunteer. I wonder if the calls will ramp up this week as part of the GOTV effort.

I check this blog multiple times a day, but I might just start checking weekly!

he’s back!

http://www.funnyordie.com/jokes/4c2ccba2c1

This is why I want the politicians to think more about educational funding.

Colin Powell made a very strong endorsement for Obama on NBC’s Meet the Press this morning. I don’t have a link but they said it will be online later this afternoon, and will be rebroadcast on MSNBC this evening.

It’s worth watching. I was tremendously impressed by everything Powell said: he spoke of his appearance before the UN which persuaded most people that invading Iraq was the right thing to do, and which now we know was based on faulty intelligence; he said (in response to a question from Tom Brokaw) that if he were endorsing Obama because he’s an African-American that he would have made the endorsement months ago; he paid tribute to McCain’s character, then questioned his judgement in all kinds of matters, including his choice of Sarah Palin; he blasted the robo-calls and, particularly, Sarah Palin’s speeches, as fostering divisiveness and polarization; and, most movingly for me, he spoke of what McCain *should* have done in response to his supporters referring to Obama as a Muslim. Said Powell, McCain should have said, “No, ma’am, he is not a Muslim, but what if he was?” Powell went on to say, why shouldn’t a 7-year-old Muslim child be able to look at the highest office in the land and aspire to it?

Powell spent most of his time talking about Obama’s character, intelligence, and judgement. I missed the first few minutes, but when I tuned in, he was speaking of Obama’s efforts to draw in consultants and information from all sides, and his desire to know as much as possible.

Powell said he did not intend to campaign for Obama. Tom Brokaw asked if he foresaw a role in an Obama administration, and he didn’t rule it out, saying that whenever a president wanted to speak with him, he would sit down and talk, but that he really didn’t intend to return to public life.

Here’s the transcript: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27266223/

Marshall,  I know everyone is working feverishly for Obama, but I am thinking about watching TV. I have a TV satellite and a computer satelite, because there is no “combo” satellite (and we will never get cable like the civilized world). My question is, how hard would it be to get a monitor and hook it up to the computer satellite, and watch podcasts etc.? I know the guys at Best buy want to answer this question but I’m starting with you.

I spoonerize all the time, but this takes the cake.

this is a video someone made from our Mercer for Obama campaign — I’m testing to see if I uploaded it properly