Recent Posts Tagged With 'election'

• Will Sarah Palin Be Welcomed Back to Alaska?

  Posted on Thursday October 30th, 2008 at 11:11 in election, yukon-alaska stuff

  When Palin loses her race for US Vice-President in a few days, will she be welcomed home? A few weeks ago it looked like she would be - a lot of folks back home were pretty pleased by all the attention the state was getting. To say that the tide has ...

• If the World Could Vote….

  Posted on Saturday October 25th, 2008 at 11:37 in election

  A very interesting poll at iftheworldcouldvote.com shows who “the world” thinks would make the best US President. As of a minute ago, Barack Obama has received the thumbs up from 87.1% of the people who voted - that’s 378,484 votes ...

• The Election in the Yukon

  Posted on Friday October 10th, 2008 at 10:34 in election, yukon-alaska stuff

  I post more about the US election than I do the one that’s coming up in Canada on October 14, simply out of amazement that Sarah Palin is still on the ticket in the States. In the Yukon, though, we have a situation that looks somewhat similar -...

• Trains & the American Election

  Posted on Thursday October 9th, 2008 at 16:46 in trains, election, yukon-alaska stuff

  Being a railfan, I love this analogy… Speaking of train wrecks, at BustedTees.com I found a t-shirt for the poor kid who Sarah is claiming as her future son-in-law:...

• Foreign Relations, Sarah Palin Style

  Posted on Wednesday October 1st, 2008 at 18:15 in election, yukon-alaska stuff

  Here’s a photo I took at the Trans Alaska Pipeline interpretive centre in Fairbanks in July 2006 when Palin was running for Governor. The slogan “Canada my ass, it’s Alaska’s Gas!” was used by the Alaskan Independence Pa...