man on the street

Yesterday on the radio program we interviewed Roy Beck, President of NumbersUSA.  Faced with either a Barack Obama or a John McCain Presidency, the average man on the street will unlikely see his belief in fairness or the rule of law reflected in the immigration debate.

As Kay Brooks notes, Councilman Eric Crafton is taking his quest to declare English First in Nashville to the people. Rebuffed by a Purcell veto, Crafton is back and he will be seeking signatures to place his initiative on the ballot.

An MTSU sophomore, Danielle Ross, was quoted on MSNBC in an article on racism in the current political primary process. She too off from college to campaign for Barack Obama and was in Muncie, IN, working the people on street corners and at a Wal-Mart.

Looking at the exit polls in Rhode Island (which are likely more accurate than Texas because they don't have the high early voting turnout), a trend is continuing....Obama wins among the College Educated, but loses heavily among the less educated.

I think a large part of this has to do with the rumors about him...he's a Muslim, doesn't know the pledge of allegiance, went to school with Bin Laden (yep, heard

Rogel packed up the whole family and carted them from New York to New Hampshire to participate in the primaries.  He’s reporting back some of his experiences, and a couple of funny anecdotes:

I'm not a regular viewer of Andy Cordan's "That's Messed Up" but I happened to catch it twice this week just two days apart and had to laugh. My curiosity was peaked and so I had to check.