Obama Keeps Selling Budget
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on March 26th, 2009 4:36 am by HL
Obama Keeps Selling Budget
“After several e-mail pleas and a nationwide door-knocking campaign, President Obama’s political arm will start airing a television commercial Thursday, urging voters to pressure Congress to approve his budget,” CNN reports.
Said a spokeswoman: “The ad will run on national and D.C. cable — primarily MSNBC and CNN. This is just one of the many tools we’ll provide our supporters with, to help them make their voices heard and send a strong signal to Washington that the time for change is now.”
Meanwhile, Obama will hold an online town hall meeting on the economy at 11:30 am ET in which over 30,000 questions have already been submitted.
Behind CQ’s Election Map
The new CQ Politics map showing the 2008 president vote by congressional district is a political junkie’s goldmine. But why was it released months after the election?
Greg Giroux, the man behind the massive data set, explains why the arduous project took so long: “With rare exception, the boards of election in the 50 states release their presidential vote totals by county, but not by congressional district.”