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Congressman Michael McMahon's CoS recently told the Staten Island Advance that he will be voting against the healthcare bill.

At first glance, this might seem like a good idea. Staten Island/Bay Ridge is a congressional district that leans conservative and many constituents are indeed against the bill. By voting against this bill, Rep. McMahon is definitely making it seem as if he is listening to his constituents' concerns, which I am sure he is.

The polls have been closed for several hours and Debi Rose has declared victory in the North Shore City Council primary. According to the Associated Press, with all 125 precincts reporting, the tally is 4,656, or 55 percent, for Ms.Rose, 3,344, or 39 percent, for Mitchell, and roughly 6% for Rajiv Gowda. So what happened?

There is a Democratic primary election on September 15th on Staten Island for the North Shore City Council seat. Incumbent Councilman Ken Mitchell will be facing off Debi Rose for the votes of North Shore constituents. Once again, I ran the numbers through vPercent and here are the expected totals for election night.

Controversy has arisen recently regarding an email blast sent from the White House. In an exchange between Robert Gibbs and reporter Major Garrett, it seems as if Gibbs didn't really know how to answer the question. Apparently, people who never subscribed to White House emails actually received emails from 1600 discussing health care. Now, it's appearing that what had happened was that outside groups took email lists and subscribed individuals to the White House email lists without their knowledge.

It's simply not enough in today's world for a campaign to throw together some HTML files or use starter templates as their main campaign website and then say the work is over. With the growing rate of technology and with the way constituents are now accessing, analyzing, and spreading information, it's imperative to connect your offline actions to your online actions. Here's where many go wrong.