Day67 Thursday 11/04/10

ran 2.8 miles

• Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Approval poll shows that 27% of American voters strongly approve of Barack Obama’s performance and 43% strongly disapprove, giving Obama an Approval Index rating of –16, compared to –20 on this day last week.

• Overall, 45% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the president’s performance and 54% at least somewhat disapprove.

• Rasmussen Reports telephone exit polling found that 59% of those who voted on Election Day favored repeal of the health care law, including 48% who strongly favored its repeal.

• An Election Night survey reported that those who went to the polls for the mid-term elections were largely angry and ready to repeal health care. Also, most voters favored the Tea party, tax cuts, and reduced government spending. And 55% of American voters believed that most Democrats in Congress have extreme views.

Barack and Michelle Obama, and an entourage of 3,000 people, will be off to India soon for a ten-day trip, which will cost American taxpayers $200 million a day for ten days. No kidding, amidst virtually double digit unemployment numbers, a weak economy, and a furious public with Obama’s entire agenda, which just wiped out a lot of democrats who risked their political careers for his beliefs and were unseated only two days ago for those beliefs, Obama is going to India, hitting some of the biggest spots in Asia, and all on our dime, achieving absolutely nothing equal to the scope of the money he is spending to do it and the audacity he has to hope so blindly that American’s are as uninformed as he would like to believe.

I like to humbly believe I am an open-minded human being who has the understanding and patience to not make preconceived notions or to pass unnecessary judgments on other people, who have as much right as I do to make decisions of any kind, but excess of this sort, when an entire nation is in your hands, is inexcusable. Regardless of what Barack Obama anticipated happening on the night of November 2, this trip took a lot of planning that started a long, long time ago, and whatever parties were involved with planning the trip, every single individual on that planning panel was fully aware of the proximity of the trip to the Mid-term elections.

My theory: Run! Create headlines that deter and weaken the reality of what just happened in the country you lead. I’d go so far as to say that our president made this trip so outrageously expensive to make it important enough to consume headlines so they would read in bold print anything but the stories about the election that just occurred. Maybe I am wrong, but it seems so obvious to me, planning a trip like this requires so much time and planning, and it just happens to be a few days after the Mid-term elections? They could have scheduled it two weeks from now. After the realization of Tuesday night, the difference in scrutiny between a few days of dealing with America’s wrath and abandoning the situation entirely for a week and a half is huge, and as strategic as it is transparent.

1,902.6 miles to go.

Day66 Wednesday 11/03/10

ran 3.8 miles
I had some residual excitement from last night’s election and ran a little further than usual tonight. When I went to bed last night the last thing I saw on Fox News was a digital map of the United States. Most of the states lacked any definitive contour to their shapes because someone in the news studio appeared to have thrown a bucket of red Photoshop paint on the entire computer image. Slivers of blue in the predictable eastern and western coastal areas accompanied a few random specks of blue more inland.

The election was a huge, unified statement proclaimed by the large majority of Americans. The few critical races that were a disappointment only sullied the larger picture of the night’s victories with a mere tinge of frustration. Barack Obama is in a delicate spot right now, due to last night’s outcome, with many eggshells under his feet, which it is in his best interest to not further crumble. Likewise, our newly elected politicians have a tight wire to cross if they are truly going to obtain the goals they campaigned with and got elected for. Today starts two years of hopefully clearing a concise path through a directionless terrain toward the next presidential election. Here are some quotes from yesterday’s election.

"This is not a time for celebration, not when one in 10 of our fellow citizens are out of work, not when we have buried our children under a mountain of debt, not when our Congress is held in such low esteem."

John Boehner

"Eleven percent of the people approve of what's going on in Congress. But tonight, there's a Tea Party tidal wave, and we're sending a message to them!"

Rand Paul

"No matter where I go, whatever title I may achieve, I will always be the son of exiles and will always be the heir of two generations of unfulfilled dreams."

Marco Rubio

“I have great confidence in the American system. We must believe in ourselves and not believe that somehow some benevolent leader in a distant capital will take care of us, will save us from ourselves. We must once again believe in ourselves.”

Rand Paul

1,905.4 miles to go.

Day65 Tuesday 11/02/10

ran 3.0 miles
On this day in history, November 2, 2010, from the moment the first vote was cast to the moment the last precinct submitted its ballots for counting, today will live on as a day that American’s spoke out, finally being heard, and were given the opportunity to reprimand and halt government actions we do not agree with. We earned this one single day, after two years of screaming into the deaf ears of Congress, to unseat some of the Senators, Representatives, and Governors who have supported Barack Obama’s radical agenda and helped to pass the legislation of his extreme liberal ideas.

Today will go down as a day in history that your children and your grandchildren can genuinely thank you for because America’s voice and vote has enriched and empowered their futures by putting up an instant barrier to Barack Obama’s idea of what America should be. The votes tonight speak for themselves insomuch as the House is being taken over by a Republican tsunami, the Senate is significantly weakened compared to their liberal numbers yesterday, and Governors have painted the American landscape red.

The outcomes of today’s elections are a direct repudiation of Barack Obama’s first two years. Tomorrow begins a whole new chapter in American politics and one of the first actions will be a televised speech delivered by Barack Obama addressing the nation on his reaction to the fact that the majority of voters in the country he leads disagree with most of his actions and ideas.

Today was an epic day in American history and if nothing else, doesn’t it just feel nice, every once in a while, to simply feel heard at such a large volume, that only a sweeping vote of this momentum can unite into audible words that speak directly to our politicians, who, otherwise, leave their suggestion boxes permanently locked?

1,909.2 miles to go.

Day64 Monday 11/01/10

ran 3.0 miles
Here’s something you may not know. Barack Obama, addressing primarily Latino voters last week, was quoted as saying, “…To rally to the aid of their political ‘Friends’ and to thwart their political ‘Enemies’.”

John Podesta, ex-president Bill Clinton’s White House chief of staff, even commented that a different word besides “Enemy” was more than appropriate. “Opposition”, maybe, or even “Those who don’t see things the way I, or we, do”, perhaps?

Republican Minority Leader, John Boehner, had this to say, “You know, when President Bush, President Reagan, President Clinton and George W. Bush used the word enemies, they were referring to global terrorism or dictators around the world who hated freedom and hated America. For the president to use that word about people who oppose bigger government, people who are freedom loving and love our Constitution, I tell you I find that very appalling," he said.

"Mr. President, I've got a word for those people who oppose you're policies, those people who love our country and Constitution, who love freedom and the principles America was founded on. You know what I call them? Not enemies. They're patriots.”

Tomorrow is the day. I haven’t been this excited since the Saints went to the Super Bowl last year. Get out and vote and let’s get closure on where America’s voice stands. Polls will be put to the test tomorrow and voter turnout will be potentially record-breaking. To not have a voice in this epoch moment in American politics is a disappointment every registered voter should avoid.

1,912.2 miles to go.

Day63 Sunday 10/31/10

ran 0.8 miles
Today ends nine weeks of running against Barack Obama. I have run 164.8 miles, averaging 2.62 miles per day. I ran a 5k yesterday, Maddie’s Footprints Forever, and scored a good time. “Maddie’s Footprints” is a great cause worth checking out.

Jumping right ahead to the larger picture, if this election on Tuesday grants opposition the chance to halt Barack Obama’s agenda, what will be interesting is what these new senators and representatives are going to do. Don’t be fooled by spin that the current uprising of American citizens protesting their government is entirely attributed to liberal ideas. Right now, any candidate who claims to defy liberal ideas is the right candidate.

So what now? These people have a huge expectation to fulfill. And if they don’t do it, despite media bias and the articles they will print, Barack Obama will only gain strength scrutinizing conservative legislation regardless of whether they are good or bad.

This upheaval of the people is not a product of Barack Obama. I would never give his thirsty ego that satisfaction and it’s just not the case. I would say that he just happens to be president right now and he attempted to call America’s bluff. He is the proverbial straw that is breaking our American backs. And now that we are calling him out, his only excuse is to blame.

“The Democrats are about to feel the full force of a tidal wave, tsunami, or a 7.0 earthquake.”

Democratic pollster Peter Hart

Historically, this kind of thing happens all the time. Whichever party has their president in office trends toward voting out members of that party during the mid-term elections of any given president’s first two years. Frustration among American voters has been boiling for decades and Barack Obama is just radical enough to turn the heat up even more while our country already boils over with steam and frustration.

American politics desperately need some good, fresh minds. Things are corrupt and shady on both sides of the aisle. Right now, I believe it would be a huge justice to this country to make Barack Obama a one-term president. With that being said, there are many more items to address in the future. But right now, our president has the power and ability to pivot this country in a direction that may take generations to reconcile.

1,915.2 miles to go.

Day62 Saturday 10/30/10

ran 2.6 miles
The final days of blitz-campaigning have come to an end for Obama in Cleveland, Ohio. As Tuesday approaches, Democrats stand to endure a volatile rejection of two more years on Capitol Hill.

“Obviously, the other side is enthusiastic,” Barack Obama said while in Ohio.

“We’ve got to make sure our side is, too,” Obama said to the enthusiastic crowd in Cleveland.

Republicans feel sure they will dominate the House with conservative votes. It would be a stretch for the GOP to overcome the Senate, but there is hope and it is possible. Depending on swing states, to contend all facets of government, which loudly defy Barack Obama and everything he has done over the past two years, nothing is impossible. It seems that American voters are electing a new enterprise of change and a different source of hope from what Obama has been peddling over the past two years. There is little left necessary to undo the path he has paved, except to understand that a path can be paved, repaved, and repaved again, regardless of how tumultuously wrong its stones are set.

Vote on Tuesday!

1,916.0 miles to go.

Day61 Friday 10/29/10

ran 0.9 miles

• Colorado was the thirty-eighth state to join the union on August 1, 1876, nine years after Nebraska and thirteen years after North Dakota.

• Population, as of 2009, is 5,024,748.

• Senators are Michael F. Bennet (D) and Mark Udall (D).

• Representatives are Diana DeGette (D), Jared Polis (D), John Salazar (D), Betsy Markey (D), Doug Lamborn (R), Mike Coffman (R), and Ed Perlmutter (D).

• Colorado holds nine electoral votes. Historically, the state has voted red in all but four elections since World War II.

• According to Rasmussen Reports, Republican candidate Dan Maes has only single-digit support in the gubernatorial race, but Democrat John Hickenlooper is nearly tied with Independent candidate Tom Tancredo.

• Incumbent Democrat Michael Bennet and Republican challenger Ken Buck stand with even numbers. They will hold a nationally televised debate on Sunday as they race toward Tuesday’s finish line.

By this time next week, potentially, some of these House and Senate seat-holders will have been voted out. I ardently hope the list I have comprised of Senators and Representatives of various states over the past couple months requires much revising after Tuesday.

If current polls prove themselves even half worthy of validation, Barack Obama should be facing some nearly impenetrable obstacles for the next two years. If this conservative victory prevails, the actions of Obama’s first two years as president will be condemned and stand to be rectified. That is what disgruntled voters expect and hopefully Republicans will be able to deliver steadfast resolution. While victory could be sweet right now, if Republicans do not fulfill the new sense of “Hope” and “Change” that the majority of American’s may or may not want, depending on Tuesday’s results, it will only strengthen Barack Obama’s campaign in 2012.

Republicans need to assert themselves over the next two years with a determination that is equal to or greater than their desire was to be elected in the first place.

1,918.6 miles to go.

Day60 Thursday 10/28/10

ran 2.6 miles

• Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Approval poll reflects that 25% of American voters strongly approve of Barack Obama’s performance and 45% strongly disapprove, giving Obama an Approval Index rating of –20, compared to –14 on this day last week.

• Overall, 44% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the president’s performance and 55% at least somewhat disapprove.

• Today’s “Election 2010 Balance of Power” summary predicts the Democrats to end up with 48 Senate seats and for Republicans to finish with 45 Senate seats. California, Colorado, Illinois, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Washington, and West Virginia are all toss-ups. Republicans would need six of these seven toss-up states to win the majority in the Senate.

• Today’s “Gubernatorial Scorecard” shows the Republicans with 28 states, Democrats with 13, and 8 toss-ups (Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maine, Minnesota, Ohio, Oregon, and Vermont).

• Larry Sabato, a professor at the University of Virginia who has made a reliable name for himself in election polling, has posted his final predictions in his article “The Crystal Ball’s Final Calls”. He predicts 55 Republican seats gained in the House and 8 Republican seats gained in the Senate.

Five days left until the election. Tuesday could be an incredible day in history and a huge statement that we American citizens can still have a voice among all the indecipherable chatter of politicians. The puffery and misleading antics that consume the American election process are deceiving and overwhelming to everyone when they start asking themselves the important questions. With that being said, I find great comfort in reading over some of the words of America’s founders. It helps to reconnect with the true intentions of America’s conception and why it is still such an amazing nation thriving in its third century of unrivaled freedom.

This is a quote I memorized the first time I read it. And I hold it on a pedestal to the current events that mock its message.

“Adore God. Reverence and cherish your parents. Love your neighbor as yourself, and your country more than yourself. Be just. Be true. Murmur not at the ways of Providence. So shall the life into which you have entered, be the portal to one of eternal and ineffable bliss.”

Thomas Jefferson

1,919.5 miles to go.

Day59 Wednesday 10/27/10

ran 2.6 miles
Senator Mitch McConnell, who will become the majority leader if Republicans gain control in the mid-term elections on Tuesday, made a bold statement recently that has the president and his democratic counterparts enraged at his partisan intentions.

“The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.”

My interpretation of the liberal notion that republicans are blocking Barack Obama’s agenda for the mere, spiteful sake of blocking liberal ideals is that it simply is what it is. Obama does not seem to understand the rules of the political game. He seems to think that he somehow deserves to get what he wants. Our whole system of government is a brilliant design of checks and balances. Republicans are not supposed to bow down to democrats and I would hope that democrats never bow down to republicans, disheveling the governmental design our forefathers formed for us and future generations. It is not the Senate or the House who are obligated to appease any given president’s ideas. It falls upon the president to find a method and a middle ground to achieve what he desires with the consent of his Senators, his Representatives and his citizens.

Barack Obama’s most popular excuse for not being able to deliver the “Hope” and “Change” he adamantly promised is that Republicans are blocking his motives. I think he should not have promised over 300 million Americans something he could not deliver---actions he cannot deliver because of our rational system of checks and balances in this country. It is as though Barack Obama was actually naïve enough to believe he could be elected president and that every intention he had would somehow magically come true, because everyone has to listen to the president. He could not have been more wrong. He is not in touch with this country and what the majority of its people want. He is, however, a monumental blamer. Barack Obama blames every promise he fails to seal, like a child, on everyone but himself because he appears to think he is a king, or a despot, in more modern terms, which I think is what he is working towards, especially if he is given a second term.

Checks and balances. Checks and balances. Checks and balances. One more time, checks and balances. America’s system of checks and balances has been established since its conception and for Barack Obama to promise the “Hope” and “Change” he has, having faced so many obstacles with republicans and intuitive logic, his reasoning can only be attributed to a complete fantasy, in which American citizens are ignorant herds of sheep, or a total misconception of the reality that a president needs to lead by example before he blames everyone else for not being bipartisan.

1,922.1 miles to go.

Day58 Tuesday 10/26/10

ran 3.2 miles
On this day in 2001, President George Bush signed into law the Patriot Act, an anti-terrorism response to the attacks on the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. The USA PATRIOT Act, an acronym for “Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism”, was intended to empower law enforcement and intelligence agencies, heightening their abilities to deter future terrorist attacks on America.

As an aside, what is the connection between our government and its obsession with acronyms? That is the longest, most ridiculous acronym I have ever come across. It makes you wonder what the order of priorities are when you see an acronym like that. Before all the important details of the USA PATRIOT Act were knitted out, I think it’s safe to say the acronym had all ten words applied to each letter, as a selling point of what their intentions were. It’s actually insulting, as if to say, “America, you are not really going to understand what exactly we are planning to do here, but we went ahead and made this fancy acronym so you can fully understand the Act we want to sign into law. Just follow these ten words. They’re pretty clever and if you take the first letter of each of the ten words it spells ‘USA PATRIOT.’”

As a future reference, anything our government tries enacting with ten or more characters that form an acronym is probably an edgy and risky idea, which your government believes is a strategy, though infantile, to winning your approval.

Regardless of our government’s condescension of its people’s intelligence, the USA PATRIOT Act was bound to have some cracks in it, but it had to be done. The majority of congress, on both sides of the aisle voted for it, but as time dwindled on, the Act lost popularity among civil right’s activists and organizations like the ACLU. It was not long before politicians who had voted the Act into law began to recant their decision, believing too much unchecked power was being wielded by the government to snoop into the lives of Americans. The Patriot Act was compared to the 1960s and 1970s when the FBI bugged and infiltrated anti-war and civil rights groups.

When those towers came crashing down, we all know something had to be done. The USA PATRIOT Act, barring the ridiculous acronym it stands for, was necessary but, as time tends to do, the severity and sense of urgency faded away until the Patriot Act turned into something else; a snooping, pestering and overbearing government.

If nothing else, September 11 has illustrated how circumstantial different times can be. This country was absolutely united and filled with compassion after that tragedy. Since then, the things that resonate most as being important during a crisis have once again faded away for a while. I would like to believe that tragedy is not necessary to highlight the important issues of any given day, but it is unfortunate when that is so often the case.

Speaking of acronyms and the childish antics politicians utilize to earn votes and approval from American people, whom they seem to believe are at twelve-year-old reading levels, stories are already making headlines about voter booth tampering, ACORN conspiracies, and the whole spectrum of corrupting the mid-term election. Things like this are one of the reasons why I never voted one single time until Barack Obama ran for president. I voted against him. A couple years have gone by and I have kept up with politics only to grow more fed up. I am going to vote against Barack Obama in 2012, as well, if he continues in the direction he is going and does not make an effort to undo what he has done or to repeal the damage he has already set in motion. I have come to a point now, as I’m sure many others have, too, that I don’t believe simply voting is even enough. That is why I am running. I feel like a member of a thoroughly united voice that goes unheard. I don’t know what else to do except to continue running and writing. These are the only tools I have to protest the corruption of politics and the intentions of our president.

1,924.7 miles to go.

Day57 Monday 10/25/10

ran 3.2 miles
This is a really cool quiz worth checking out! If you have ever questioned where exactly you stand politically and feel unsure about it, this quiz can help you understand what political party your beliefs and ideas coincide with most. The result of your quiz, which only takes two minutes, exceeds the status limitations of mere democratic, republican or independent . Your result is also plotted on a graph to give you a proximal value of how far away or near your ideas and beliefs are to other parties.

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Tomorrow marks the final week before the Mid-term election. Brace yourself for a lot of last minute meaningless babble and mud-slinging. All we can do is vote against the actions of the past two years, which cannot be twisted by rhetoric or denied by excuses.

1,927.9 miles to go.

Day56 Sunday 10/24/10

ran 2.6 miles
Today completes eight weeks of running against Barack Obama. I have run 148.9 miles, averaging 2.66 miles per day. It’s a struggle some days to continue this campaign but what keeps me going is the threat of Obama getting a second term. It is evident to anyone who follows politics that election-time is a ruthless, unscrupulous and irrational battle, which requires millions and millions of dollars per candidate to invest nonsense into our minds. Facts and beliefs are free and they are the only things needed to earn votes. I believe to overcome Barack Obama in 2012 it will take a focused public that scrutinizes his every action and protests any further decisions he makes that move America closer to the point of no return. The decision to socialize health care is the only evidence necessary to realize that if our government can take one industry over then they can take over other industries, too, crippling free enterprise and everything that makes this country prosperous, powerful and free.

It starts on November 2. This election could be a monumental page in American history. American voters are going to be listened to by the ballots they cast. If Americans are content with what Obama and his liberals have done over the past two years then it is what it is, and we take him and his agenda on in 2012. But if the votes reflect that an overwhelming majority of people are disappointed in the direction Obama has set for this country, the staggering numbers of liberal seats lost and conservative seats gained could be record setting for one single election.

1,931.1 miles to go.

Day55 Saturday 10/23/10

ran 2.9 miles
Barack Obama has been scrambling around the past five days making appearances in Oregon, Washington, California, Nevada and Minnesota. While in Nevada Obama urged his listeners, “We’ve just begun. We’re just in the first quarter.” Presuming he has three quarters left and not just one he continues, “I can’t have you tired when we’re just getting started.”

Reverting back to his latest favorite expression, calling his opponents “Snake oil salesmen”, Obama continued to blame filibusters, poor attitudes, and a large portion of Americans he referred to as the “No-you-can’t” crowd as the obstacles to his “Change”.

The truth is the “No you can’t” crowd is very big and they don’t want Barack Obama’s change. The populace Barack Obama panders to may be equal in size but they do not possess even one half of the passion that the people who want him out of office do. When in current history do you recall anything like the Tea Party as we know it today emerging and potentially conquering a government and its agenda?

Conservative minds often toil with the beliefs and actions of conservative leaders but when is the last time you saw a liberal movement with the momentum the Tea Party has? Given the paradigm of statistical democratic voters, they could never construct a movement like the Tea Party because their ideas simply lack substance and long-term sustainability. It’s exactly like their perpetual attempts at hosting radio shows, which discuss their issues. People don’t listen to them, their ratings are low, they don’t get advertising, and they get cancelled. The reason Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly, among dozens and dozens of others, get tuned into is because they discuss issues that people care about and they express their ideas with concision and logic. Barack Obama is doing his best to defy logic and America is simply responding.

My three main issues with Barack Obama and his agenda, as I have stated before, deal with health care, immigration, and his stimulus packages.

Socializing health care would be an epic gesture of what could follow in the next ten years. If our government can take over one industry why can it not take over another? And power of that magnitude has been proven by history to get out of control and to cause chaos.

It is a well-known fact that vast portions of liberal voters are ethnic minorities. I have absolutely no problems or judgments about that. My great-grandfather arrived on Ellis Island only four generations ago. But the contemporary calamity we face with illegal immigrants and their growing numbers is a giant elephant in the corner of everybody’s room that our government will not deal with. And, if left to liberal ideas, suppose we simply legalize all of them, completely ignoring the fact that they are criminals who broke our American laws by not undergoing naturalization. There are millions upon millions of them. The liberal train of thought is to legalize these people with complete amnesty regarding their premeditated crime of entering this country without proper documentation. To liberals, they feel like good Samaritans, but maybe all they are thinking about is votes to build their self-serving political careers.

Stimulus packages are already out of control. The monopoly money Barack Obama has thrown up into the air will indebt our born and unborn children and it has served no real purpose, other than to let the government step into the boardrooms of automotive manufacturers and banks. And, unfortunately, the economic policies Obama adheres to find the only solution to failure to be the distribution of more unprinted money.

1,933.7 miles to go.

Day54 Friday 10/22/10

ran 2.6 miles

• California was the thirty-first state to join the union on September 9, 1850, two years after Wisconsin and eight years before Minnesota.

• Population, as of 2009, is 38,292,687. California has been the most populous state in America since 1970.

• Senators are Barbara Boxer (D) and Dianne Feinstein (D).

• Representatives are Michael Thompson (D), Walter Herger (R), Daniel Lungren (R), Tom McClintock (R), Doris Matsui (D), Lynn Woolsey (D), George Miller (D), Nancy Pelosi (D), Barbara Lee (D), John Garamendi (D), Jerry McNerney (D), Jackie Speier (D), Fortney Stark (D), Anna Eshoo (D), Michael Honda (D), Zoe Lofgren (D), Sam Farr (D), Dennis Cardoza (D), George Radanovich (R), Jim Costa (D), Devin Nunes (R), Kevin McCarthy (R), Lois Capps (D), Elton Gallegly (R), Howard McKeon (R), David Dreier (R), Brad Sherman (D), Howard Berman (D), Adam Schiff (D), Henry Waxman (D), Xavier Becerra (D), Judy Chu (D), Diane Watson (D), Lucille Roybal-Allard (D), Maxine Waters (D), Jane Harman (D), Laura Richardson (D), Grace Napolitano (D), Linda Sanchez (D), Edward Royce (R), Jerry Lewis (R), Gary Miller (R), Joe Baca (D), Ken Calvert (R), Mary Bono-Mack (R), Dana Rohrabacher (R), Loretta Sanchez (D), John Campbell (R), Darrell Issa (R), Brian Bilbray (R), Bob Filner (D), Duncan Hunter (R), and Susan Davis (D).

• California holds fifty-five electoral votes, which is 10% of America’s entire electoral college. Historically, the state has voted Republican from 1952 through 1988, except for the landslide loss of Barry Goldwater in 1964, and they have been Democratic since Bill Clinton was elected president.

California’s Senate race between Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer and Republican challenger Carly Fiorina, a former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, continues to be a steady tie in the polls. Rasmussen Reports latest survey shows Boxer with 48% and Fiorina with 46%. California is obviously considered one of the six toss-up states for the Senate race and a GOP win would be a monumental statement of how fed up this country is with Barack Obama and his radically democratic agenda. The simple fact that Boxer’s career as a Senator is being so severely threatened speaks for itself.

1,936.6 miles to go.