On Nate Silver’s election live blog, he points out “In every presidential election since 1960, the candidate who prevailed in Florida’s Hillsborough County, home to Tampa, has also prevailed in Florida”
Tag: Obama
First Presidential Debate
Here’s a summary of what Obama and Romney said on education during the first Presidential debate. I first posted this information as a sequence of tweets.
It supports what I wrote earlier – educators should vote Democrat this election, because Obama has a vision of education building a core of strength into the USA, but Romney gives education little thought.
Barack Obama’s Education Policy
A while ago, I sent an email to all the people who might be president in 2013. In it, I asked :
- What is the most important thing you would do, as president, to ensure America’s future prosperity?
- Relative to this, how important to America’s future prosperity is the goal of ensuring all children have access to affordable education?
- What plans, if any, do you have to ensure that all Americans have affordable access to high-quality education?
Today, the first reply came in – from Barack Obama. No reply yet from any of the Republican candidates, though I suppose there’s only one that matters now.
I’ve reproduced Barack Obama’s letter below. I’ll comment further when I get a reply from Mitt Romney, or when I’m convinced I’m not going to get one.
State Of The Union 2011
Although I didn’t listen to Obama’s “state of the union” address, I happened upon the transcript and started flipping through it. There’s a lot of encouraging stuff about science and math education.