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Missouri is one of the most populated states in the United States of America and is situated in the Midwest of the country. Missouri has a mix of urban and rural culture, and the Missouri election results have, over the past many years, been an accurate prediction of who the next President of the United States would be. An exception was made in the 2008 presidential election when the Republican party candidates had a majority over the Democratic Party candidates by 0.1%. The majority John McCain had over Barack Obama is quite negligent, but still the Missouri election results show just how close an election it was in the usually popular Republican state.

Missouri is well known as a bellwether state in American politics. This means that Missouri election results have always been an accurate prediction of what the final results of the electionare goin to look like, from as far back as the year 1904. The only times the Missouri election results did not live up to its expectation was in 1956 when the state voted for Governor Adlai Stevenson of Illinois over the winner of that year’s presidential election, serving president D. Eisenhower, and in 2008, when the Missouri election results showed a very slight majority for Senator John McCain of Arizona over Senator Barack Obama of Illinois. It is no surprise then that candidates try very hard to win over the people in this state, and focus a lot on the outcome of this state.

It is not only the presidential election that Missouri election results would play am important role. As one of the most densely populated states in America, its impact would most probably be felt in a presidential election. This power is something that has to be used wisely. After all, we as the people have the power to elect someone to do what is right and necessary for our people, our country, and our world, and that responsibility is not something to be taken lightly. But it finally boils down to each one of us, as we all have the power to make the change we want in today’s world.

The American president, Barack Obama has been quite criticized by his our press after he decided to give the Queen an iPod. The gift was given during a meeting held at Buckingham palace. The idea of giving the iPod was that of getting the Queen back some memories from her visit done in the USA a couple of years ago, but also to familiarize her with new policies and ideas of the USA, through the numerous speeches the American president included on the device.

Officials in the White house claim that Obama made another gift for the Queen, which consist in a rare audio book of Richard Rodgers. He received a gift from the Queen as well, but sadly it was nothing special, just a plain photo of her and Prince Philip, framed and signed, the usual gift she gives to all foreign presidents and officials that visit the palace.

 

Because the American president really tried hard to provide a special and priceless gift to the Queen, and he got in return just a simple photo, he must’ve felt pretty bad. Still, he remained happy-looking and no one suspected anything about the uncomfortable situation.

 

The American press claims this is the second inappropriate present Obama gives. A few weeks ago he gave to another Britain official, Gordon Brown, a set of 25 classic movies on DVD. Nice present, but too bad they were only fit for American video systems and don’t really work well on European players. Let’s only hope that Obama remembered to include an ipod mini AA battery, so that the Queen doesn’t have to go out and buy one herself if she wants to listen to anything on the device.

 

Obama was not the first person in the world to get the Queen an ipod. Sources say that she has one already, also received as a gift in an official meeting, full of classical tunes she like so much. Even if the situation at this official meeting was a bit odd and many newspapers commented on it, it looks like both the Queen and Obama were having a wonderful time.

Before I get to why you should buy pepper spray, I must say I’m feeling like something’s bubbling beneath the surface this afternoon that needs to break out. It’s like volcanic magma, or a white phosphorous grenade, for those of you familiar with ordnance.

Yesterday on the telly the story was AIG. Outrage! More and more outrage!

True, the CEO is a moron, but that isn’t the important story. And no, AIG executives, who pretty much wrecked the company, don’t deserve any money for their efforts.

The real story you should pay attention to, is the goofballs who were basking in the well of the House and Senate, taunting AIG executives with confiscatory taxes if the money isn’t given back to them. The brigade was led by our wonderful friend Chuck Schumer, the senior Senator from New York.

Chucky yipped and yapped while his sidekick John Kerry swooned, or maybe he just badly needed a bathroom break to get rid of the previous night’s filet de boofe.

But let me tell you somthine you probably want to be aware of. The candidates who bagged the most green from AIG are:

1. Christopher Dodd (Now there’s a big sur prise, sur prise, sur prise, as Gomer liked to say). Wherever there is corruption, whether in finance or housing, Chris Dodd is standing there…watching as the building burns to the ground. But he’s going to clean the mess up.

2. Chuck (U Farley) Schumer – Now this is interesteing. The guy leading the cavalry against AIG got himself the second biggest bag of campaign contributions.

3. President Elect B.O. – That is right ladies and germs…El Jefe squeezed in third place in the campaign dough sweepstakes…followed by…

4. John McCain – followed by…

5. John (why the long face) Kerry

6. Joe (Indie) Lieberman

7. Joe (Guh?) Biden

Now of course there were Republicans who took their share…but 85% of those who took AIG money were in the Dumbo Party. (It’s far easier to collect those big amounts.)

They should be forced to give that money back.

They should be fined an amount equal to what they took, and then a bunch more.

They should be voted out of office, and not have any pension.

They should be forced to scrub urinals at Penn Station for the remainder of their miserable hypocritical lives. (Or live with Nancy Pelosi.)

So…you want to buy pepper spray.

Let’s assume you want it to defend yourself and your family, or even your idiot liberal cousin from Massachusetts. Or New York, or Connecticut.

There are several things to keep in mind.

1. The elements.

2. Your location.

3. Range

4. What kind of heat you’re looking for.

You should ask:

When do I strike? Do I spray many times? How effective should my pepper spray be? Am I going to be inside or outside? Is there any wind? Is it raining? If I’m inside and use pepper spray what should I do after?

Myself, like Tim the Toolman Taylor, I like more power. So I always go for Wildfire pepper spray. It can burn the balls off a bear in seconds, trust me. Now sometimes you might prefer the Mace Pepper Gun, which has a good range of twenty-five feet. It won’t burn you like the tenth level of hell, but usually you only need Level 1 or 2. And believe me, the mook won’t be able to tell the difference.

All pepper spray gets the job done. That’s the main reason why you buy pepper spray. It acts as a deterrent, and a good one at that. My personal feeling is that some deterrents are more effective than others, and they leave a psychological mark on a mook. Wildfire leaves a permanent scar on a mook’s psyche, and he will forever equate whatever his crime was to severe pain.

The Mace Pepper Gun can take a mook out without you getting close.

But the thing is, to be effective, you must buy pepper spray, some kind, some type, and carry it with you. It sure as heck isn’t going to be effective sitting in my warehouse. (I pity the fool…)

You wan’t protection…buy pepper spray.

And fantasize of the time you get jumped by a dirty, unshaved mook who looks like Chris Dodd…(spray spray…Oh isn’t that you Senator…spray spray spray…I guess that hurts…spray spray…did you say something there…spray spray…did you ever get around to giving back that AIG money?)

Try it, thinking about that scenario is more fun than you’d imagine.

At least that’s true for me.

There are thousands of predictions prior to an election. People are always willing to know the chances of each competitor prior to the election. Gallup polls will help you to find out who has the better edge on winning an election. Daily in Gallup.com there are hundreds of polls available in the form of data driven news. Since it was found by Mr. George Gallup Gallup polls have become the leading polls providers to more than 140 countries on many topics.

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A poll done prior to an election can be recognized as a survey. It would give a brief idea on how the things would work out at the election by observing a set of voters. Gallup polls are able to gain the interest of people through newspapers, television or by their own website in the internet.Gallup.com is the major source to the Gallup polls even though it is available by television and radio as well. Today they are recognized as the single most accurate source of economic and global views and data. Not only about politics but Gallup.com has a wide range of topics to their polls.

For an election a Gallup poll has become a must . The topics covered prior to an election stretches to a wide area covering many burning topics amongst the voters.

Predicting a winner is trademark when it comes to Gallup polls. Though they aren’t always correct, in the end the polls done by Gallup are supposedly very accurate and unbiased therefore winning the trust in the people.

Representing more than 95% of USA’s adults population Gallup polls have become almost a 100% accurate prediction of an election result, but why does the results vary often and is not as same as the Gallup opinion? Maybe after observing Gallup polls people would tend to change their mind. The initial decision would be changed and hence the final official result would vary from the Gallup election poll.

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If you haven’t been keen on what other people thinks of elections and their opinion why not look up in Gallup.com and get to know what others think? After all it’s somewhat fun to be updated with others opinion.

Recently, it seems the powers that be in Washington, D.C. believe that ascension to near deity status of the Obama presidency has granted a carte-blanche mandate to the administration and the Congress. So far, we’ve witnessed both the Bush administration and the current Obama administration playing “fast and loose” with our futures, perhaps even with the survival of our great nation and the American dream. Please keep in mind that there was certainly not a mandate at the polling places – 55 million Americans did not vote for President Obama, because they wanted another candidate to win the election. None the less we have elected a new president who deserves our support and best wishes.

But we did not vote to give up our 1^st Amendment rights to freedom of speech. Today we may be witnessing the backlash caused by the cavalier, elitist – “big brother knows best” mind-set of the past decade coming full circle. We still have one of the greatest economic engines on the planet and our people resources are second to none. So, what’s our problem? My thought is a great deal of the problem comes from the fact that our representatives in Washington believe we elected them so they could mortgage our future and by their placing additional tax burdens on the already struggling masses it will magically stimulate our economy. Not only has this very approach been shown to be folly in every historic context; it can only result in further erosion of the already weakened public confidence in our economy. These actions will also lead to decreased confidence in the world markets.

T. Boone Pickens had a series of commercials during the 2008 election cycle which spoke of the “largest transfer of American wealth in history”. He was talking about the price of energy & how American dollars would be going out of our pockets and into the bank accounts of the world’s oil cartel. When he made those commercials, little did he know what President Obama and the 111^th Congress of the United States had in store for our citizenry.

By now, you’ve probably heard about the TRILLIONS of dollars the government is approving for bailouts, economic stimulus and infrastructure, not to mention more “pork” than any time in history. What does it all mean, how does it affect us & what can we do about it if we don’t agree with the direction things are going? Well, obviously, 55 million Americans voted for someone other than the current president – but did anyone hear them in Washington? Nope, the new order figures they’ve silenced their opposition.

Last week we witnessed may have witnessed the beginning of an uprising, it was not huge but it was noisy. I say we need more “tea parties” & we need more folks committed to less government. I live in the State with the highest personal income and sales taxes in the nation – yep California! Some of us out here are sick and tired of a slight majority in Sacramento and Washington taking for granted that winning an election by a few votes means that everyone agrees with the direction they want to take us.

Here are a few thoughts on how to solve our problems:

• Reviving our belief in the 10^th Amendment. It’s simple but succinct language is often the subject of intense debate but a return to States rights is imperative to slowing the flow of power and revenue to the Federal government. After all, who is really best equipped to manage your tax dollars? Even our State governments are often not the best stewards of our money. Frequently, the county and local governments provide much more value for our tax dollars than the Federal Government. The waste at the Federal level is already well documented and it is only increasing under the new regime. The 10^th Amendment to the United States Constitution simply states:

“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” Gov. Perry Backs Resolution Affirming Texas’ Sovereignty Under 10th Amendment

• Reviving our belief in a TRUE two party system. It seems that today there is hardly any discernable difference between the D’s and the R’s. We are not getting what we pay for in our representatives. Who do we have to blame? Ourselves, as long as we keep voting for people who do not do our bidding we’ll continue to get the tax & spend results.
• Support for all the principles of our founding fathers. It seems that the entire Federal government is working against the people, our businesses and even our state and local government are not really our servants.
• Consider this, when the country was young we needed lawmakers to set up the framework for our country. They wrote a constitution which serves as our foundation. Over the years, we the people, allowed for amendments to that original document. There have been a total of 27 amendments proposed, ratified and/or repealed. There have been 6 more which have never been ratified. Over the 223 years of our history, the amount of laws passed by the Congress and our regulatory bodies in incomprehensible. Is all that paper really necessary to civil order and a reasonable rule of law? Many would argue that with the constant nature of change in the world, we need full time regulators and lawmakers just to keep up. I maintain that there are so many laws on the books already that our legal system and administrative law functions are being crushed by the sheer weight of the burdens of enforcement of the existing law. Many of our current laws are not even being enforced.
• Our Tax System must be reformed to provide a fair and even handed tax system. If we cannot reach a conclusion which resolves the breakdown of our Federal System we need to lobby for change. A grass-roots revolt may be in the early stages; ala Tax Day Tea Party. Our Leaders need to remember who they work for & if they cannot solve these problems in the current system of government we need to really consider the possibility of a Constitutional Convention to rewrite the constitution to reset the priority of the government as being Of the People, By the People & for the People. If you are not familiar with the implications of a Constitutional Convention and our rights as citizens to insist that our government listen to our wishes please visit this website for some background. Sweet Liberty  This particular subject is as sensitive as our 1^st and 2^nd Amendment rights. Why? Well, because the power which would be granted to such a body could have just the opposite effect we desire. It could result in a more powerful central government and even less personal freedom for all of us. If you haven’t noticed the alarming events on this front you should take some time to form your own opinion and voice it before it is too late.
• “Let us face reality. The framers have simply been too shrewd for us. They have outwitted us. They designed separated institutions that cannot be unified by mechanical linkages, frail bridges, tinkering. If we are to ‘turn the founders upside down’ – to put together what they put asunder – we must directly confront the Constitutional structure they erected … “

- James M Burns, p.160 Reforming American Government

• “In the event you would be inclined to dismiss the relevance of the proposed new constitution, bear in mind that it is the product of a tax-exempt think-tank which took ten years, $25,000,000.00 and the collaboration of over one-hundred like-minded individuals. “It would be folly to believe this investment is intended to be merely an exercise in political theory. The frightening reality is, the planners are serious in their efforts to impose a new constitution upon the people of America as we enter the 21st Century.”

- Col. Arch Roberts, Committee to Restore the Constitution

• Wall Street Journal, December 19, 2008: Could this crisis be a catalyst to dupe state legislators into passing resolutions calling for a Constitutional Convention (Con-Con) for the ostensible purpose of adding a “Balanced Budget Amendment”? Little do most of them know that the elite proponents of a Constitutional -Convention intend to re-write the constitution or drastically amend the BILL OF RIGHTS, weakening individual protections and state sovereignty!!

Regardless of where you stand on these matters, they are of grave concern to all citizens. We ALL have a right to be heard and represented. If we do not take an active part in voicing your opinion, you will have no reason to complain when the results are not to your liking. If you would like to hear more from this author please visit XITNOW – where you can subscribe to the posts on his blog. About the Author – Steve Vicory is a veteran business development consultant, freelance writer, and author of XITNOW How to Liberate Your Equity – Keep More for You & Retire In Style. He has over 30 years experience running companies and helping people to maximize their return on investment in their business. Steve@TheBalancedGroup or by visiting www.TheBalancedGroup.com

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Pennsylvania has been with Democrats from way back  In the presidential election polls of 2008, this has been proved again.  There has been no change whatsoever in the minds of the voters about whom to be selected but Obama’s offer to ‘change’ has stuck with them.  Pennsylvania election results have rewarded Senator Barack Obama with 21 electoral votes in his run for president.

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With the number of registered voters standing at 8.73 million, Pennsylvania was slated to be leaning severely on Barack Obama.  Barack Obama started his campaign with a head start of anything between 4 to 14 over his rival Senator John McCain.  However, in the end, Pennsylvania election results helped Barack Obama emerge as the 5tth consecutive Democrat winner in the run for president in Pennsylvania in the presidential elections of the USA.

Although Mr McCain had been expecting some sort of strong support for him in parts of Northeastern Pennsylvania, Senator Barack Obama was successful in receiving strong support in those very same areas.  Mr Obama achieved this feat despite a strong all out push by Mr John McCain towards the end of the campaign days to clinch the urban centers as well as swing regions.  Nevertheless, Pennsylvania election results showed that Mr McCain was ahead in Northern Pennsylvania.

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It is obvious that the two candidates had shared the votes of the whites equally between them.  However, it seems a different story when it comes to the votes of the blacks and the Hispanics  Based on the surveys carried out after the Pennsylvania election results were announced, it could be safely argued that the blacks and Hispanics were overwhelmingly supportive of Senator Barack Obama.  The very reason of Barack Obama being an African American vouches for the fact that blacks and Hispanics wanted to see a black American as the next president.

pennsylvania election results

The triumph of the Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama over his opponent Republican senator John McCain in the electorate of Pennsylvania brought immense joy to the multiracial populace of the State.  Crowds gathered at the City Hall soon after Mr Obama was declared the winner in accordance with the Pennsylvania election results.  They were from all ages, all walks of life, and had come from all directions in their numbers to celebrate the victory of their president, cheering and dancing in spite of a light rain.