The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

President Barack Obama has been leading his opponent Mitt Romney in most polls and stats-geek (I mean that in a good way), Nate Silver of 538.com, is giving Obama a 76.3% chance of winning the election in November. Yet it seems like almost once a day, I either hear or read via a major media outlet that Republican voters are more enthused about this year's election than Democratic ones and/or that Democrats aren't as enthused as they were for the 2008 election. This is nothing new. It is very common for the party that has been out of power in the Oval Office to be the more pumped up of the two parties. This happens almost every time. After two terms of Democrat Bill Clinton, what happened? Let's not forget that Clinton had a pretty high approval rating, especially during his second term. Yet after he held office for 8 years, the Republican voters were more geared up to get a Republican in there to replace him and they did that with George W. Bush. After 8 years of Bush, ag...

I had every intention of watching both the Republican and Democratic National Conventions, Tuesday through Thursday, from 7 to 11 pm EST. I followed through with that last week for the RNC, but due to Time Warner Cable deciding to leave me without cable starting at almost exactly 7 pm last night (I know - conspiracy, right? Just kidding) until 3:30 in the morning, the only portion of the DNC I could watch was on ABC from 10 to 11, where I watched both San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro and First Lady Michelle Obama speak. Due to the limited time I was able to watch the convention last night, I won't be able to provide as thorough of an overview as I had the previous Tuesday through Thursday. If I have cable the next couple nights, though, I will certainly watch the DNC in its entirety as I had initially intended. Just based on what I did in fact see last night, I noticed both striking similarities and differences between the two conventions. As far as similarities go, both speakers ...