PACs

A list of the top PACs - Political Action Committees for each party - do you see any trends? Top 20 for each party are listed (from www.opensecrets.org)

Republican:
National Auto Dealers Assn
$1,497,000
AT&T Inc
$1,430,950
American Bankers Assn
$1,401,200
National Assn of Realtors
$1,345,500
Associated Builders & Contractors
$1,275,500
National Beer Wholesalers Assn
$1,152,500
United Parcel Service
$999,090
National Assn of Home Builders
$974,500
Every Republican is Crucial PAC
$934,500
Credit Union National Assn
$926,799
Honeywell International
$857,116
American Dental Assn
$854,450
Freedom Project
$825,398
Koch Industries
$804,500
AFLAC Inc
$798,000
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
$762,500
Blue Cross/Blue Shield
$675,050
Associated General Contractors
$651,000
Union Pacific Corp
$636,969
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp
$626,500 (side note - they're still around???)


Democrat:
Intl Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
$2,614,300
Operating Engineers Union
$2,237,457
American Assn for Justice
$2,160,000
Air Line Pilots Assn
$1,963,000
Machinists/Aerospace Workers Union
$1,893,800
Sheet Metal Workers Union
$1,842,510
Laborers Union
$1,782,000
National Assn of Realtors
$1,776,500
Plumbers/Pipefitters Union
$1,739,975
Service Employees International Union
$1,732,200
American Federation of Teachers
$1,684,250
United Food & Commercial Workers Union
$1,653,353
International Assn of Fire Fighters
$1,623,900
American Fedn of St/Cnty/Munic Employees
$1,615,593
Communications Workers of America
$1,590,409
National Air Traffic Controllers Assn
$1,522,975
Carpenters & Joiners Union
$1,396,700
Ironworkers Union
$1,396,550
Teamsters Union
$1,393,550
National Beer Wholesalers Assn
$1,274,000

Update - Cabinet Positions

Although still early to start planning, some more thoughts to the Obama - Biden cabinet.


(In order of succession)


State - John Kerry (?)
Treasury - Mark Warner
Defense - General Wesley Clark (4 star = actual general)
A.G. - David Boies or Cheryl Mills
Interior - Bill Richardson
Agriculture - Brian Schweitzer
Commerce - Jim Webb
Labor - ???
H.H.S - Dr. Robert Wah
H.U.D. - Dennis Kucinich
Transportation - Wick Moorman (NSx - joined them in 1970!)
Energy - T. Boone Pickens - we can look past the swift boat ads.
Education - Lynn Woolsey or David L. Brewer III (LAUSD)
VA - Patrick Murphy
Environment - (added) - Russ Fiengold


(Homeland security should be dissolved - all it did was breakup the government)

Should have been an ad for the Super Bowl

This is a 2006 Cannes award winning video - Diageo did want to air it during the 2006 superbowl, but decided to concentrate their money on winning back some areas of Ireland and placing ads at the world-cup which got them a much much larger market share!

Anyhow - enjoy - 1 minute long!

2008 Election - Thanks Maine :(

Ordinarily I believe that the way Maine splits thier electoral college votes is better; however, my prediction is that the vote will be 269-269. Legally this would then need to go to the House of Representatives to settle the dispute. BUT we know that the Supreme Court has illegally interviened in the past to choose someone for President. Don't remember who they chose...

Anyway... Maine gives two electoral votes to the winner of the overall state popular vote. They then give one vote to the winner in each of the state's congressional districts. (Total possible 4). My prediction is that McCain will take 3, Obama 1.

If the House votes, then Obama will win. The Supreme Court will chose, hmmmm?

AL - 9 McCain

AK - 3 McCain

AZ - 10 McCain

AR - 6 McCain

CA - 55 Obama

CO - 9 Obama

CT - 7 Obama

DE - 3 Obama

FL - 27 McCain (after fiasco)

GA - 15 McCain

HI - 4 Obama

ID - 4 McCain

IL - 21 Obama

IN - 11 McCain

IA - 7 Obama

KS - 6 McCain

KY - 8 McCain

LA - 9 McCain

ME - 3 McCain / 1 Obama

MD - 10 Obama

MA - 12 Obama

MI - 17 Obama

MN - 10 McCain

MS - 6 McCain

MO - 11 McCain

MT - 3 McCain

NE - 5 McCain

NV - 5 McCain

NH -4 McCain

NJ - 15 Obama

NM - 5 Obama

NY - 31 Obama

NC - 15 McCain

ND - 3 McCain

OH - 20 McCain

OK - 7 McCain

OR - 7 Obama

PA - 21 Obama

RI - 4 Obama - State of RI and Providence Plantations

SC - 8 McCain

SD - 3 McCain

TN - 11 McCain

TX - 34 McCain

UT - 5 McCain

VT - 3 Obama

VA - 13 Obama

WI - 10 Obama

WY - 3 McCain

One of these things is not like the others

Thought I'd put it in the Sesame Place language that Palin could understand... This could be taken a few ways - the top two are...

(a) Reagan and Palin are evil (just look at her lear)
(b) Reagan and Clinton had brains
(c) Reagan - post alzheimers and Palin are dumb as rocks!