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2008 Presidential Election Maps: Obama takes key swing states
Barack Obama will be the 44th President of the United States Here are a collection of maps to show you how he did it:
Source: FiveThirtyEight
Source: FiveThirtyEight
States called so far that have flipped from Republican to Democrat (Iowa, Ohio, Florida, Nevada, Indiana, Virginia, and New Mexico) Here’s how the final 2008 Presidential Map is likely to play out with Missouri and North Carolina still too close to call.
2008 Presidential Election Results by county in swing states:
Virginia
Ohio
North Carolina
New Mexico
Iowa
Indiana
Colorado
Nevada
Election 2008: Taking a Financial Flyer on the Race for the U.S. Presidency
A Portuguese online bank, Banco Best, is offering deposits tied to the results of the U.S. presidential election: If U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., wins the White House, Banco Best will pay 8% for the period between the deposit and Nov. 4; if Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., wins, the bank will pay 2%. That reflects the general preference for Obama held in Europe; it’s worth noting that the bank’s not offering an equivalent deposit product biased the other way, which by all the rules of hedging it should be (opening branches in Arizona and Wasilla, Alaska, where demand might be expected…
15Oct2008 | Money Morning | Comments Off | ContinuedElection 2008: Who Will Get to Spend the $700 Billion?
By Martin Hutchinson
Money Morning
The market’s verdict on the $700 billion bailout was pretty clear: Stock prices started dropping the moment the bill was passed on Friday afternoon and continued to do so Monday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average closing down 370 points for the day – after being down 800 points earlier that same day.
The economic effect is also pretty clear: Given that the bailout plan is being launched at a point when money is already tight – and that it pours $700 billion of our money into the most useless, toxic waste left over from the housing bubble –…
8Oct2008 | Money Morning | Comments Off | ContinuedThe Energy President
Electing Our Next Energy System
In the world of energy and scarcity, the name of the next president will matter to us quite a bit. “People are policy,†as Ronald Reagan used to say.
But then again, a lot of energy and scarcity facts defy party labels. The energy resources are out there.
They are what they are and where they are. We can exploit the resources or not. But it’s not like in Star Trek. There’s no “dilithium†power source out there to keep the economy running.
So for the next president and his administration, it’s a question of doing something. The U.S.…
10Sep2008 | The Penny Sleuth | Comments Off | Continued
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