One page on.

New concept. One page on (insert hopefully novel topic here).

On the Rockford Bar Crawl this year I threatened to stab a guy in the mouth for harassing the door guys at Bar Louie. I didn't have a knife. It worked though, he left...without any stab wounds in his mouth and I managed to get the stragglers of the RBC into the bar. Sorry to whoever got in my way that night, I don't know my own strength sometimes, just in a left-handed way (it's less than what I think).

Onwards Ho!

One page on politics.

Some of my new colleagues and contemporaries at Lewis & Clark's law school have recently made mention of an upcoming gubernatorial election here in Oregon. There're even friggin' Facebook profiles for the candidates for governor. http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=500077589

So Gov. Kulongoski isn't doing so hot in the surveyUSA.com approval ratings. http://surveyusa.com/50State2006/50StateGovernor060921State.htm

I looked over the demographical breakdown of these approval ratings until I was pissed off and satisfied. The demographical distribution follows that of the state of Oregon's population closely across the board (gender, race, age, etc.). They (surveyUSA.com) profess that the sampling error is +/-4%. Sounds good for a sample size of 600 out of 3.6 million right? Where do they find this sample of Oregon? I'd love to have them to bounce ideas off of.

Turns out, after a quick look into the website's statement of methodology, I would just have to randomly dial Oregon phone numbers and give thousands of people a professionally recorded telephone survey to get the opinion of these 600 ordinary Oregonians. Does anyone out there take random unsolicited phone surveys? Do the people that do represent the population of voters in Oregon well? Do politicians cater their platforms and campaigning to a public they see based on bullshit systems of surveying the public like this? What self-respecting, politically-informed, well-educated American takes the time out of corrupting and exploiting humanity and the Earth to answer a recorded phone survey on what they about the Gubernator?

I guess I didn't mean this to be a page of questions. Who's going to answer? They're rhetorical, all of them. The answers in my limited ignornant view would be no, no, I hope not, and no one respectively.

I wish I knew more about the inner workings of a campaign and the political engine that runs beneath/within it. Ignorance is not bliss if the stats scream lies.