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John Viescas finds the choicest tidbits of information buried away in the deepest recesses of the Internet and lets you know about them here. We hope you find them interesting.

John was born and raised in "The West-Texas Town of El Paso" (apologies to Marty Robbins) - son of a first generation Mexican-American and an immigrant from England. He went off to the University of Chicago in the late 1960s to study mathematics. Yes, he was there for the 1968 convention.

It was at the Lab for Astrophysics and Space Research that he discovered his talent with computers and left college to become one of the early computer "geeks." He later settled on databases as a specialty (he can show you how to perform searches in the Federal Election Commission donations database) and went on to become a best-selling author of books about Microsoft Access and the SQL database language.

As a life-long Democrat, he's always been involved in politics in small to big ways. He worked for the local party in downstate Illinois (Republican country) in the early 70s, and campaigned vigorously for Howard Dean from Hawaii to Iowa in 2003 and 2004.

He currently lives part of the year in Paris, France.

 


 

The wheels are coming off...




By the way, this will be my last post before the election.  I'm off to Italy next week for two weeks of vacation.  We've heard they have CNN there.  (grin)

A little inspiration...

.. as we grind down through the last week of the campaign.  There have been hundreds if not thousands of videos produced in this first campaign waged on YouTube.  Here are a couple of my favorites.

First, a classic:



And watch this one sometime Monday (or today if you're inclined):


BREAKING: MSM Finally Says Obama's Going to Win!

Well, MSNBC had finally done it.  It'll be out tomorrow on the MSNBC website, but the "new" map was unveiled today on Meet the Press.  Check it out at 4:37 into this video:



Obama: 286, McCain: 163, Tossup: 89

Don't miss this "endorsement"!




Obama leads by 10+ in all Big Ten states

This is over the top.

http://www.bigtenpoll.org/

Head-to-head results for individual states

IllinoisObama 61%McCain 32%
IndianaObama 51%McCain 41%
IowaObama 52%McCain 39%
MichiganObama 58%McCain 36%
MinnesotaObama 57%McCain 38%
OhioObama 53%McCain 41%
PennsylvaniaObama 52%McCain 41%
WisconsinObama 53%McCain 40%

This is what a LANDSLIDE looks like!

McCain giving up on Colorado...

McCain's Five Disadvantages

It actually surprises me that Obama doesn't have a bigger lead in the polls.  McCain is at a huge disadvantage for these five reasons:

1) George W. Bush  (Surely I don't have to explain this.)

2) The Economy

3) Fund raising - Obama raised nearly twice what McCain is limited to spend in September alone

4) Surrogates - McCain doesn't have anyone like Bill and Hillary stumping for him

5) Sarah Palin - The Republicans who have come out for Obama have listed this as their #1 or #2 reason

A video to inspire

Now, I'm not a big fan of hip-hop or rap, but this one grabs me.


Obama '08 - Vote For Hope from MC Yogi on Vimeo

Colin Powell Endorses Obama

I'll let Colin Powell speak for himself:


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