SAM AQUILLANO - INDUSTRIAL DESIGNER

Obama.

My sister said it best: I am so happy.  : )

30 Reasons.

There are 18 days till the election and countless reasons why this country needs a change in direction. My pals Julia and Chris are curating 30reasons.org, from the website:

30 Reasons is a 30-day email and internet campaign to encourage people to vote for Barack Obama. Our goal is simple: Use design to build a logical, multi-faceted argument for Obama and make it easy to share each reason with another person.

We enlisted 30 graphic designers to create a poster that represents a reason to vote for Obama. Starting on the October 5th, we will post a new poster online every day and email it to our list. Recipients can easily share the email with other supporters and friends who are undecided.

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These posters are excellent. Sign up (and sign up your friends) to receive a poster email everyday till the election. And don’t forget to vote, no matter who you’re voting for.

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Vice Presidential Reform.

All this Palin nonsense got me thinking about vice presidents and how weird it is that they are chosen, not elected. I remembered something I learned in 10th grade history (holla Mr. Kelly); which I confirmed with a quick Wikipedia search and will summarize here (with clever wit and more importantly all-uppercase words for effect):

Under the original Constitution, the Electoral College ONLY voted for the office of president NOT for president and vice president. HUH! Each elector was allowed to vote for two people for president. Whomever received the majority of votes would be president and whomever received the second highest amount of votes... you guessed it, they became vice president.