Bird’s-Eye View

I have a suggestion for you sweet-flavored coffee lovers. Trek on up to Senorita Burrita at 227 Prince St. and order a latte with sugar-free hazelnut syrup. You won’t find a finer tasting sugar-free hazelnut anywhere else.
I’m not going to focus too much on President Barack Obama’s propoganda pitch speech tonight to a joint session of Congress. […]

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We’re watching the Democratic strategy for the Congressional elections two years from now and Obama’ re-election bid in 2012, and Obama’s been president for just over one week.
 All 177 House Republicans voted against the $819 billion stimulus package yesterday, saying it included too much in government spending. Now, by most estimates, this recession is going […]

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 U.S. Sen. Bob Casey Jr. overcame what he described as hard feelings for fellow Senator Joe Lieberman, the Democrat turned independent lawmaker who backed Republican John McCain for president, and voted to allow Lieberman to retain his committee chairmanship, according to the Washington Post:
For Obama’s closest allies, Lieberman’s sin was not his support for McCain, […]

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So you wanna know how Democrat Barack Obama racked up a 10-point victory over Republican John McCain in Pennsylvania? From the Philadelphia Inquirer:
McCain won 49 of the state’s 67 counties. As he had hoped, he swept the guns-and-religion counties - many of them Democratic - outside the Pittsburgh area. In the mountains and in farming […]

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Politico.com has this look at the necessary self-evaluation the Republican Party must undergo now:
Most ominously for Republicans, the GOP is increasingly becoming less grand than old – and outdated. As reflected in Tuesday’s results and exit polls, it’s a party that is overwhelmingly white, rural and aged in a country that is rapidly becoming racially […]

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Only two Democratic presidential nominees during the last century have performed as well as Barack Obama did across Lancaster County on Tuesday.  Obama grabbed 97,290 votes for 43 percent while Republican John McCain nabbed 124,475 votes or 56 percent.
The last Democrat to do that well was Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 when he pulled off the upset of upsets […]

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10:58 p.m. Change. 
4:21 p.m.: If you need a quick cup of Java, head to Starbucks. Just remember that everyone can get a free cup today. From NBC News:
Starbucks, which announced in an ad on “Saturday Night Live” that it would give a free coffee to anyone who came in on Election Day and said, “I […]

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Greetings, Nesters. I know I haven’t written much in the last week or so of the campaign, and really, what is there left to write about? The stump speeches have been delivered 10,000 times by both Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain, the strategies really don’t change in the last days leading up to […]

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I suggested during the primary Hillary Clinton undermined her campaign through mixed messages like suggesting nobody should pay attention to early polls that put her and Republican John McCain neck-and-neck in a hypothetical matchup, then told crowds polling showed Barack Obama trailing McCain, too, and that was somehow indicative of a bad omen for Democrats.
McCain’s […]

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