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It's now official, my car is now outdated. The new 2009 TSX was leaked yesterday, which is the first major redesign that the TSX has had in it's 5 year history. Luckily I still love driving my car around, and I still planning on keeping it for a long long time.
Speaking of my car, I had to renew my insurance today. Apparently there's been a string of car robberies in my zip code in the last year, and so my rates (and everyone else's, I comparison shopped) went up. Having to deal with car insurance and comparing quotes and sorting through the ruckus is one of those things that I really don't like about being an adult.
And now back to your regularly scheduled Obamarama.
The Obama campaign has now landed in Austin, to start the work of helping Obama win Texas. It's looking like Texas and Ohio will be the deciding states when we hold our hybrid primary-caucus on March 4th. If Obama can win both states, then it'll be pretty much over, after including all his (projected) wins in February (he's won 8 in a row so far, all by large margins). So for the first time ever, my vote in a primary will actually count for something. Unfortunately (if you can call a vacation to Italy unfortunate) I'll be in Italy during the last 2 weeks of the campaign here, so I won't get to help out in those crucial days, but I do plan on taking the day off on election day to lend what support I can.
Speaking of the March 4th election, Texas has a very convoluted method of selecting our 226 delegates that go on to the national Democratic convention. 35 of them are super delegates, who get to decide on their own who to vote for. 126 are selected by voting in the primary. And then 67 are selected by a caucus held on that same day, at 7:15pm. However most people have no idea that there is even a caucus going on, so part of the Get Out The Vote efforts will be in letting people know that not only do you have to vote on March 4th, you also need to show up that evening and caucus too, because they both count. So all you Texas readers, make sure you let your friends know that it's a two part process. This page has a much more detailed explantion of the whole process.
I also received over the weekend one of those false "Obama is a muslim" emails that I'd read about people getting. It was also attached to a whole tirade about how Muslims aren't good Americans, which was filled with half-truths, lies, and all kinds of mischaracterizations.
Also I was reading on a forum online, and came across an argument that points out why I say Obama "gets it". It's because he's one of the few politicians I've seen who seems to believe in his policies not as a party line, but as arguments. In reading his statements, it's clear that he looked at all the sides and in the end, the evidence best supports the position that he's taken. Which is quite important when applying for a job where you never know what will happen the next day.
Experience? Here's some experience for you.
And even more on his background as a community organizer, civil rights lawyer, and why he decided to get into politics in the first place
And even though things are looking up for Obama, it wasn't too long ago that Clinton had a 33 point lead and pretty much no one would have bet against her winning the nomination.
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