Luckily today has been a somewhat slow news wise. Yesterday Senator Joe Biden announced he is interested in a run for the Democratic nomination in 2008 however he also said an exploratory committee wouldn’t be announced until early in 2007. Democratic Senator Russ Feingold announced he would not run and John McCain is waiting for the official announcement.

Not much else at the moment to report.

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One of my plans for the rest of 2006 and start of 2007 is to consume as much written material directly from the candidates as possible. Since it looks as though John McCain is going to run and is at the moment in the lead when it comes to polling for potential runs in 2008, I have begun with his memoirs. The first on my list is Faith of My Fathers which details McCain’s life up to his release from a Vietnamese POW camp and emphasizes the lessons McCain learned from his father and grandfather, both four-star admirals in the U.S. Navy.

I plan on parsing information about each candidate from their books but in addition am using them to get a better sense of the people. When it comes to voting for a president there is often more then vote histories or campaign slogans. There are people behind the decisions that need to be made and the more we can all learn about those people, the better we can make a judgment.

With that said it looks like a LOT of people are going to be running in 2008 which means a lot of reading for this Geek.

One final note, I started adding content to the Resource section. Just links to polling sites at the moment. There is so much to do and though there are two years it feels like so little time to do it.