Everything I Know About Sarah Louise Heath Palin

By Michelle at 4 September, 2008, 6:48 pm

We all know Governor Palin was a beauty queen, and a point guard in high school… we’ve seen the photos.
Palin sure did bounce around a lot in the olden days. She reportedly attended 5 different colleges in 6 years before finally graduating from the University of Idaho in 1987  . She started out in 1982 [...]

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The Palin bump

By Michelle at 2 September, 2008, 9:32 am

John McCain’s appointment of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin definitely gave someone a bump in the latest polls… too bad it wasn’t the GOP. According to the latest Gallup Poll, Barack Obama’s approval rating among likely voters has reached 50 percent over Republican candidate John McCain. That little bump happened as McCain announced Palin as his [...]

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Cable News Pines For Your Eyes (and Dollars)

By Michelle at 18 August, 2008, 4:06 pm

Hey there, 20somethings — you’re making the TV news dorks itch with anxiousness. Seems that since our preceding generation didn’t really give to poops about politics, we’re something of a rebirth of political conscious. Polls are showing a surge in primary votes from people under the age of 30… probably because a lot of us [...]

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Gwen Ifill, The Lone Lady

By Michelle at 12 August, 2008, 11:31 am

Did you know that Gwen Ifill is the only woman moderating in the presidential debates (she’s moderating the Veep debate this fall) and has been the only woman doing it since 1992? I heart Gwen and all, but that’s kinda sad. For those of you who aren’t aware, Ifill works for PBS’s Washington Week and [...]

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Gore on Clinton

By Michelle at 21 July, 2008, 10:04 am

“I think that women often face these kinds of challenges, of course, in our society. But I think that she did an amazing job in changing that, as I think Senator Obama and Bill Richardson, where Hispanics are concerned, also made it possible for our country to move on into the 21st century and say, [...]

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You Name It: What’s Important to You This Election?

By Michelle at 10 July, 2008, 10:20 am

photo by Just-Us-3
The Democrats are holding platform parties all across the country in a few weeks to get the gist of what people want Obama to run on. As young voters, what are issues that we need to address in the upcoming election? What are things that matter to young women? Health care? Gun rights? [...]

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