http://player.vimeo.com/video/14825956 This week saw the Internet-release of "Moving Pictures o Los Autos de Caracas", the second documentary on Venezuela by Chris Moore of Sol Productions. (The real-world premiere...
Here’s something relatively few people have grasped about this election cycle: the opposition is finally putting on a Ground Game worth the name. A properly thought-out Witness program and Get...
So, with two weeks to go, how does the campaign look? Truth is, this is one of the hardest elections to read of the last 11 years. Polling...
I guess this is what Oscar Schemel is talking about when he drones on and on about how we need a "superior electoral offer." On some level, deep...
Since we’re fair and balanced, time to show some Government ads. This one seems particularly effective. From what we hear, the message that an oppo majority means chaos has...
I can hardly overstate my visceral revulsion at this kind of vapid, contentless pap…so, trusting my finely tuned Backwards Populism Radar, I’m sure it’ll be crushingly effective: http://www.youtube.com/v/BhntRGef2eo?fs=1&hl=en_US
The 481st Anniversary of the founding of Maracaibo is a perfect excuse to repost this classic Brian Nelson hatchet job on that Pit-of-Pestilence-by-a-Heavily-Polluted-Lake y’all call home… Some fun...
These days, the government faces two seemingly intractable crises: there are far too many guns in the streets, and there are far too few bonds in the BCV-regulated SITME...
On this blog, we’ve always stressed the difference between "Hard Rigging" an election – actual, Persian-style numerical fraud – and "Soft Rigging" it through an accumulation of unfair...
The best ad of the season, so far, is this Don’t Vote! ad, pa que cojan mínimo los abstencionistas. http://www.youtube.com/v/CA5IPFSDVcs?fs=1&hl=en_US The ad was put out by the...
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