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This story comes from Fayetteville, North Carolina.  Diatha D. Harris, a teacher at Mary McArthur Elementary School with the Cumberland County School system, let a Swedish documentary crew into her class back in May.

Looking at this video, the teacher is doing some mighty large moves on some thin ice.  I wouldn’t have liked a teacher using these sort of tactics on my children.  And no, I wouldn’t have liked it if my children were Obama supporters and the teacher pushed McCain on them either.  School is for learning, not indoctrination.

It’s sad that we’re worried about “fairness” on television and radio (i.e. the fairness doctrine), a media that we can freely change the channel or turn off, yet we have teachers (that certainly lean both directions) pressing their candidate to children who are a captive audience with no choice but to listen.  If this teacher would have responded with some negative viewpoints to the Obama supporting children as well as the soldier’s child, it would have been one thing.  Instead, she was clearly pushing one candidate over another.  It isn’t right here, and it wouldn’t be right if she were pushing McCain either.

According to the Fay Observer, Harris, who is spotted wearing an Obama button in the video, claims that the video was doctored to make her appear partisan.  Superintendent Bill Harrison posted a response on YouTube about the video, promising to take “appropriate action” against the teacher.

Teacher Video

Superintendent Response

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The trend of election-timed records continue.  As reported earlier, stocks set a record post-election day drop earlier in the week.  Reuters reports that even with the rally on Friday, stocks set a new record for losses for the week after an election.

So far, it seems that Wall Street lacks confidence in an Obama administration.  The fear likely stems from Obama’s promise to raise taxes on those who hire, set salaries, and set pricing for goods and services.  A tax hike on any level is likely to only make the current economy issues even worse.  In fact, Herbert Hoover created the depression with policies such as these.  Time will tell if advisers have any success in persuading Obama to make sound economic decisions.

With even more job losses this week, it is unclear if the economy has hit bottom.  Unfortunately, it can turn into a self-perpetuating situation.  People lose jobs and are unable to spend money with companies.  Companies lose profits and have to let more people go.  It’s a situation that will be a challenge for the new President-elect.

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WCCO reports that a mayoral race in Goodridge, Minnesota was decided by coin flip.  The town of 98 people had nobody file to enter the race for Mayor but incumbent Bob Homme and former Mayor Dave Brown were written in by residents.  Both nominees got 22 votes.

In lieu of recounting, they decided to let a coin toss decide the winner.  Brown won.

If only all politics could be this simple!

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Fordham has provided this list of polls and their accuracy compared to the real election.  As expected, the polls overestimated Democratic support, but only by 1.37 percent.  23 polls overestimated Obama’s strength, only 4 polls overestimated McCain’s.  Rasmussen and Pew got the election spot on!

The List
1(T). Rasmussen (11/1-3)
1(T). Pew (10/29-11/1)
3. YouGov/Polimetrix (10/18-11/1)
4. Harris Interactive (10/20-27)
5. GWU (Lake/Tarrance) (11/2-3)
6(T). Diageo/Hotline (10/31-11/2)
6(T). ARG (10/25-27)
8(T). CNN (10/30-11/1)
8(T). Ipsos/McClatchy (10/30-11/1)
10. DailyKos.com (D)/Research 2000 (11/1-3)
11. AP/Yahoo/KN (10/17-27)
12. Democracy Corps (D) (10/30-11/2)
13. FOX (11/1-2)
14. Economist/YouGov (10/25-27)
15. IBD/TIPP (11/1-3)
16. NBC/WSJ (11/1-2)
17. ABC/Post (10/30-11/2)
18. Marist College (11/3)
19. CBS (10/31-11/2)
20. Gallup (10/31-11/2)
21. Reuters/ C-SPAN/ Zogby (10/31-11/3)
22. CBS/Times (10/25-29)
23. Newsweek (10/22-23)

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Obama is already running into difficulties spreading the wealth.  WTHR in Indianapolis is reporting that some of the Obama campaign workers had difficulty getting paid yesterday.  Some are claiming they are being short changed on what they were told they would pay.  All had to wait past the time they were told they would be paid.  Many sounded upset.

Video is on the WTHR article.

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