Techno-politics

In a speech in the last week of the campaign, President Obama said this about Mitt Romney: “He’s a very talented salesman, and in this campaign he’s tried as hard as he can to repackage the same old ideas and pretend they’re new.” Obama used the Mark Anthony strategy and damned Romney with faint praise, Continue Reading →

When the 2012 election returns came in, I was in Sydney, Australia. The view was high level and from afar. This reminded me of a forecast I made far back in 2007 about this election. The specifics of the outcome were, in fact, what I had suggested might occur. In early 2007, when the early Continue Reading →

Let me begin with a disclaimer. I voted for Barack Obama in 2008 and supported him for re-election this year. I like his character, I like what he’s done in foreign policy, and I like what he did in bailing out General Motors and Chrysler. But I don’t like his attitude toward “salesmen.” In a Continue Reading →

  The President has asked Americans all across the country to come together as a nation to help fellow citizens recover in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. As the community steps up, so do the scammers. In the devastating wake of Sandy, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released a new warning for all investors Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/121108_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] The year of social media just keeps on truckin’. On Tuesday night, President Barack Obama was re-elected for a second term after he hit the magic number of 270 Electoral College votes. That wasn’t the only Obama-related number of significance from Tuesday night, however. Obama’s “Four More Continue Reading →

President Barack Obama was re-elected on Tuesday evening after defeating republican candidate Gov. Mitt Romney 303 to 206 and winning an estimated 50% of the popular vote. Shortly after the president’s win was secured, an image was posted from his Twitter account along with the text “Four more years.” According to a report from BuzzFeed, Continue Reading →

Barack Obama’s victory on Tuesday night has far-reaching fiscal, social, and military implications, all of which are familiar to anyone who kept at least one eye open during any of this year’s debates. But what do four more years mean for tech? Turns out, a lot. While Obama hasn’t indicated that he’ll dramatically change course on Continue Reading →

The peaceful transition of power is an enduring, unique and wondrous attribute of American Democracy.  Students of history know that back in 1796, when President George Washington decided to decline running for a third term, he wrote a letter to America entitled: "The Address of General Washington To The People of The United States on his declining of the Presidency of the United States."  President Washington's retirement paved the way for a vicious political battle between the Federalists, who favored John Adams and the Jeffersonians who were eponymously named for their candidate. Continue Reading →

Holding an election is complicated. Holding an election eight days after a historically significant disaster? Probably exponentially so. This is the circumstance in which the state of New Jersey will find itself tomorrow. Gov. Chris Christie has ordered counties to provide ways for people who have been displaced by Hurricane Sandy to vote in Tuesday’s election Continue Reading →

Whoever said there’s no such thing as a free ride hasn’t seen Uber’s latest promotion. The car-service booking app, which came under fire last week for boosting prices in New York in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, says today that it’s going to give free rides to voters tomorrow. It’s pairing up with Rock the Vote Continue Reading →