THE DAILY BLADE: Barack Obama’s “Facebook” Page
The Republican National Committee (RNC) created a mock Facebook page, BarackBook, listing Barack Obama’s friends and associations, including Dr. Eric Whitaker (recommended to assume the position of director of the Illinois Department of Public Health by Obama through convicted felon Tony Rezko) and Frank Clark (an Obama bundler and CEO of Commonwealth Edison, which is a subsidiary of Exelon – a company whose employees and executives have contributed more than $230,000 to Obama's campaign).
The RNC will update BarackBook regularly between now and Election Day. You can get automated updates or invite others to view BarackBook by installing the Facebook application.
7-Eleven’s Election Promotion
Convenience store chain 7-Eleven is running its 7-Election presidential coffee cup poll for the third presidential election in a row. It works like this: Until Election Day, customers who stop in for a cup of coffee can choose either a red 20-oz John McCain cup or a blue Barack Obama cup. A barcode on the cups allows clerks to keep a running tally when ringing up sales.
National and state results will be posted daily at the 7-Election Web site. Participating 7-Eleven stores are also encouraged to post the latest race results at their coffee islands, reports Convenience Store Decisions.
The gimmick is not new. For instance, in 1956, movie-goers could purchase popcorn in a Dwight Eisenhower or Adlai Stevenson box.
The coffee cup poll is unscientific, meaning the results are not statistically valid - in part because customers may “vote” as often as they wish, thus caffeine addicts are overrepresented in the sampling. Nonetheless, the company claims its coffee cup poll has a good track record of predicting the margin of victory: In 2004, the 7-Election results were 51 percent for George W. Bush and 49 percent for John Kerry – which matched the final election results. Ditto the 2000 election, when sales of the George W. Bush cup edged out the Al Gore cup by 1 percent.
With a scant three weeks till November 4th national results suggest a landslide win for Obama, with 59.3 percent vs. 40.6 percent for McCain. However, there are anomalous results at individual 7-Eleven stores. For instance The Stiletto can personally attest that as of Saturday, October 11th, at the 7-Eleven located at 346 42nd Street in NYC, the McCain cup had outsold the Obama cup by 261 to 195.
7-Eleven, which operates, franchises or licenses approximately 7,600 stores in North America, sells more than one million cups of coffee daily.
Yet Another Biden Gaffe
Towards the end of an interview with Harry Smith on the CBS “Early Show,” Joe Biden said this about some of John McCain's supporters insisting on using his opponent’s full name - Barack Hussein Obama: "I mean, here you have out there these kinds of, you know, incitements out there - guy introducing Barack using his middle name as if it's some epitaph or something." The Stiletto is guessing that he meant to say “epithet.”
Check Out “Chewing The Fat With Ophelia”
The New Agenda is launching it’s first BlogTalkRadio show, Chewing the Fat with Ophelia, Monday nights. The world premiere is October 13th from 10 pm to 100 pm EST.
If you have something to say about current events – or want to listen to what other New Agenda members are thinking – here’s how to participate:
Click here, and the show will start playing right on your computer monitor (make sure your speakers are on). If you have a question or comment for host Amy Siskind the call-in number is
Photographs of 7-Election cups and popcorn boxes courtesy of The Heel, an Ivy-educated attorney with a prestigious New York law firm, and occasional contributor to this blog.
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